October 2024 | RecSys

Bridging Search and Recommendation in Generative Retrieval: Does One Task Help the Other?

Gustavo Penha, Ali Vardasbi, Enrico Palumbo, Marco De Nadai, Hugues Bouchard

October 2024 | Journal of Online Trust & Safety

Algorithmic Impact Assessments at Scale: Practitioners’ Challenges and Needs

Amar Ashar, Karim Ginena, Maria Cipollone, Renata Barreto, Henriette Cramer

June 2024 | ICWSM

Socially-Motivated Music Recommendation

Ben Lacker, Samuel Way

May 2024 | Yijun Tian, Maryam Aziz, Alice Wang, Enrico Palumbo and Hugues Bouchard

Structural Podcast Content Modeling with Generalizability

Yijun Tian, Maryam Aziz, Alice Wang, Enrico Palumbo and Hugues Bouchard

May 2024 | The Web Conference

Personalized Audiobook Recommendations at Spotify Through Graph Neural Networks

Marco De Nadai, Francesco Fabbri, Paul Gigioli, Alice Wang, Ang Li, Fabrizio Silvestri, Laura Kim, Shawn Lin, Vladan Radosavljevic, Sandeep Ghael, David Nyhan, Hugues Bouchard, Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke, Andreas Damianou

May 2024 | The Web Conference (GFM workshop)

Towards Graph Foundation Models for Personalization

Andreas Damianou, Francesco Fabbri, Paul Gigioli, Marco De Nadai, Alice Wang, Enrico Palumbo, Mounia Lalmas

May 2024 | WEBSCI

Exploring Local Music’s Place in Global Streaming

Samuel Way, Dominika Mazur, Rebecca Kupferman, Megan Walsh, Angelina Tizé and Ben Lacker

April 2024 | ICLR

In-context Exploration-Exploitation for Reinforcement Learning

Zhenwen Dai, Federico Tomasi, Sina Ghiassian

April 2024 | WEBSCI

A Genre-Based Analysis of New Music Streaming at Scale

Julie Jiang, Aditiya Ponnada, Ang Li, Ben Lacker, and Samuel F Way

April 2024 | The Web Conference

Long-term off-policy evaluation and learning

Yuta Saito, Himan Abdollahpouri, Jesse Anderton, Ben Carterette, Mounia Lalmas

November 2023 | ACM TORS

Unbiased Identification of Broadly Appealing Content Using a Pure Exploration Infinitely-Armed Bandit Strategy

Maryam Aziz, Jesse Anderton, Kevin Jamieson, Alice Wang, Hugues Bouchard, Javed Aslam

November 2023 | ISMIR

Semi-Automated Music Catalog Curation Using Audio and Metadata

Brian Regan, Desislava Hristova, Mariano Beguerisse-Díaz

October 2023 | CIKM

Exploiting Sequential Music Preferences via Optimisation-Based Sequencing

Dmitrii Moor, Yi Yuan, Rishabh Mehrotra, Zhenwen Dai, Mounia Lalmas

October 2023 | CIKM

Graph Learning for Exploratory Query Suggestions in an Instant Search System

Enrico Palumbo, Andreas Damianou, Alice Wang, Alva Liu, Ghazal Fazelnia, Francesco Fabbri, Rui Ferreira, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hugues Bouchard, Claudia Hauff, Mounia Lalmas, Ben Carterette, Praveen Chandar, David Nyhan

September 2023 | CLEF

Cem Mil Podcasts: A Spoken Portuguese Document Corpus For Multi-modal, Multi-lingual and Multi-Dialect Information Access Research

Ekaterina Garmash, Edgar Tanaka, Ann Clifton, Joana Correia, Sharmistha Jat, Winstead Zhu, Rosie Jones, Jussi Karlgren

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 | SIGIR

Hear Me Out: A Study on the Use of the Voice Modality for Crowdsourced Relevance Assessments

Nirmal Roy, Agathe Balayn, David Maxwell, Claudia Hauff.

July 2023 | SIGIR

When the Music Stops: Tip-of-the-Tongue Retrieval for Music

Samarth Bhargav, Anne Schuth, Claudia Hauff

July 2023 | SIGIR Industry

Bootstrapping Query Suggestions in Spotify’s Instant Search System

Alva Liu, Humberto Corona Pampin, Enrico Palumbo