Machine Learning

Machine learning touches every aspect of Spotify’s business. It is used to help listeners discover content via recommendations and search, generate playlists, extract audio content-rich signals for cataloging and other content-based applications, understanding voice commands, serve ads, develop business metrics and optimization algorithms, create music with AI-assisted tools, and more. Central to these endeavors is a commitment to cultivate expertise in the latest approaches as we advance the state of the art in machine learning methodology and applications. Of particular interest are approaches in reinforcement learning, approximate inference, graphical models, causal inference, deep learning, time series modeling, and meta-model learning.

Latest Machine Learning Publications

September 2023 | RecSys

Accelerating Creator Audience Building through Centralized Exploration

Buket Baran, Guilherme Dinis Junior, Antonina Danylenko, Olayinka S. Folorunso, Gösta Forsum, Maksym Lefarov, Lucas Maystre, Yu Zhao

August 2023 | Interspeech

Lightweight and Efficient Spoken Language Identification of Long-form Audio

Winstead Zhu, Md Iftekhar Tanveer, Yang Janet Liu, Seye Ojumu, Rosie Jones

July 2023 | KDD

Impatient Bandits: Optimizing for the Long-Term Without Delay

Thomas McDonald, Lucas Maystre, Mounia Lalmas, Daniel Russo, Kamil Ciosek

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