Spotify Research https://research.atspotify.com/ Spotify’s official research blog Thu, 02 Oct 2025 18:31:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://research.atspotify.com/images/research-logo.png Spotify research https://research.atspotify.com/ 32 32 Personalizing Agentic AI to Users' Musical Tastes with Scalable Preference Optimization https://research.atspotify.com/2025/9/personalizing-agentic-ai-to-users-musical-tastes-with-scalable-preference-optimization/ Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:42:34 +0000 https://research.atspotify.com/?p=4H5YU0j3jIhCSEPvMfaU6l When users ask for “music for a solo night drive through the city,”...

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]]> Describe What You See with Multimodal Large Language Models to Enhance Video Recommendations https://research.atspotify.com/2025/9/describe-what-you-see-with-multimodal-large-language-models-to-enhance-video/ Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:13:27 +0000 https://research.atspotify.com/?p=3XohwntK4tphst2Tsy0ObS Recommending the right short- or long-form video...

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]]> Profile-aware LLM-as-a-Judge for Podcasts: A Better Middle Ground Between Offline Metrics and A/B Tests https://research.atspotify.com/2025/9/profile-aware-llm-as-a-judge-for-podcasts-a-better-middle-ground-between/ Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:16:05 +0000 https://research.atspotify.com/?p=2IEf1rsNWhZdeLuykda1Gk Evaluating podcast recommendations is notoriously difficult...

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]]> Semantic IDs for Generative Search and Recommendation https://research.atspotify.com/2025/9/semantic-ids-for-generative-search-and-recommendation/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:42:37 +0000 https://research.atspotify.com/?p=3NlMHGiaFB0wo7QFWfq7Os Large Language Model (LLM)-based generative frameworks are transforming how we approach...

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]]> Prompt-to-Slate: Diffusion Models for Prompt-Conditioned Slate Generation https://research.atspotify.com/2025/9/prompt-to-slate-diffusion-models-for-prompt-conditioned-slate-generation/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:26:40 +0000 https://research.atspotify.com/?p=CJXcxpsh9IQQZJQSOJk9s Many recommender systems present multiple items to users at once...

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