The Dynamics of Exploration on Spotify
July 26, 2022 12:00 pm“Variety is the spice of life”, as the saying attributed to poet William Cowper goes. People crave heterogeneity and avoid... View Article
Categories for User Modeling
Choice of Implicit Signal Matters: Accounting for User Aspirations in Podcast Recommendations
May 3, 2022 10:06 amPodcasting as a medium is growing exponentially, with hundreds of thousands of shows available in genres from comedy to news... View Article
Mostra: Balancing multiple objectives for music recommendation
April 27, 2022 4:30 pmRecommendation engines support most modern digital platforms, allowing users to navigate vast databases of products in Amazon, homes in AirBnB,... View Article
Podcast Language and Engagement
August 3, 2021 10:59 amWhat makes a particular podcast broadly engaging? As a media form, podcasting is new enough that such questions are only... View Article
User Intents and Satisfaction with Slate Recommendations
July 27, 2021 5:01 pmAn increasingly larger proportion of users rely on recommendation systems to pro-actively serve them recommendations based on diverse user needs... View Article
Contextual and Sequential User Embeddings for Music Recommendation
April 26, 2021 9:26 pmUsing a music listening dataset from Spotify, we observe that consumption from the recent past and session-level contextual variables (such... View Article
Finding Structure in Users’ Evolving Listening Preferences
April 19, 2021 2:23 pmAt Spotify, we invest into designing recommendation algorithms that allow users to explore the music space more effectively. Recent findings... View Article
Shifting Consumption towards Diverse content via Reinforcement Learning
March 8, 2021 2:23 pmAlgorithmically generated recommendations power and shape the bulk of music consumption on music streaming platforms. The ability to shift consumption... View Article
‘Just The Way You Are’: Music Listening and Personality
December 15, 2020 10:54 amMusic is such a core part of culture and everyday experience that it has long been believed to be connected... View Article
Algorithmic Effects on the Diversity of Consumption on Spotify
December 3, 2020 10:11 am Leave your thoughtsOn Spotify, people are spoiled for choice: there are millions of songs by millions of artists that they can listen... View Article
Local Trends in Global Music Streaming
May 1, 2020 8:16 pm Leave your thoughtsGoing back to the earliest forms of recorded music, technology has made it progressively easier for countries around the world... View Article
Do podcasts and music compete with one another? Understanding users’ audio streaming habits
April 20, 2020 11:35 am Leave your thoughtsBecause Spotify offers both music and podcast content on the same platform, we have a unique view into people’s audio... View Article
Environmental Changes and the Dynamics of Musical Identity
July 6, 2019 7:10 pm Leave your thoughts“What kind of music do you like?” When getting to know someone, music is often one of the very first... View Article
Deriving User- and Content-specific Rewards for Contextual Bandits
May 1, 2019 7:26 pm Leave your thoughtsGiven the overwhelming choices faced by users on what to watch, read and listen to online, recommender systems play a... View Article
Understanding and Evaluating User Satisfaction with Music Discovery
July 8, 2018 4:31 pm Leave your thoughtsIf you’re a Spotify user, you may be familiar with Discover Weekly—your weekly, personalized playlist of music you’ve never heard... View Article