Publications

Sep 30, 2025|ICML
LLARK : A Multimodal Instruction-Following Language Model for Music
Joshua Gardner, Simon Durand, Daniel Stoller, Rachel Bittner
Sep 11, 2025|RecSys CONSEQUENCES Workshop
Calibrated Recommendations with Contextual Bandits
Diego Feijer, Himan Abdollahpouri, Sanket Gupta, Alexander Clare, Yuxiao Wen, Todd Wasson, Maria Dimakopoulou, Zahra Nazari, Kyle Kretschman, Mounia Lalmas
Sep 11, 2025|RecSys
Evaluating Podcast Recommendations with Profile-Aware LLM-as-a-Judge
Francesco Fabbri, Gustavo Penha, Edoardo D'Amico, Alice Wang, Marco De Nadai, Jackie Doremus, Paul Gigioli, Andreas Damianou, Oskar Stål, Mounia Lalmas
Sep 11, 2025|RecSys
Semantic IDs for Joint Generative Search and Recommendation
Gustavo Penha, Edoardo D'Amico, Marco De Nadai, Enrico Palumbo, Alexandre Tamborrino, Ali Vardasbi, Max Lefarov, Shawn Lin, Timothy Heath, Francesco Fabbri, Hugues Bouchard
Sep 11, 2025|RecSys EARL Workshop
AudioBoost: Increasing Audiobook Retrievability in Spotify Search with Synthetic Query Generation
Enrico Palumbo, Gustavo Penha, Alva Liu, Marcus Eltscheminov, Jefferson Carvalho dos Santos, Alice Wang, Hugues Bouchard, Humberto Jesús Corona Pampin, Michelle Tran Luu
Sep 9, 2025|RecSys
Generalized User Representations for Large-Scale Recommendations and Downstream Tasks
Ghazal Fazelnia, Sanket Gupta, Claire Keum, Mark Koh, Timothy Heath, Guillermo Carrasco Hernández, Stephen Xie, Nandini Singh, Ian Anderson, Maya Hristakeva, Petter Pehrson Skidén, Mounia Lalmas
Sep 9, 2025|RecSys
Prompt-to-Slate: Diffusion Models for Prompt-Conditioned Slate Generation
Federico Tomasi, Francesco Fabbri, Justin Carter, Elias Kalomiris, Mounia Lalmas, Zhenwen Dai
Sep 9, 2025|RecSys
You Say Search, I Say Recs: A Scalable Agentic Approach to Query Understanding and Exploratory Search at Spotify
Enrico Palumbo, Marcus Isaksson, Alexandre Tamborrino, Maria Movin, Catalin Dincu, Ali Vardasbi, Lev Nikeshkin, Oksana Gorobets, Anders Nyman, Poppy Newdick, Hugues Bouchard, Paul Bennett, Mounia Lalmas, Dani Doro, Christine Doig Cardet, Ziad Sultan
Sep 9, 2025|RecSys
Describe What You See with Multimodal Large Language Models to Enhance Video Recommendations
Marco De Nadai, Andreas Damianou, Mounia Lalmas
Aug 19, 2025|SSW
Scaling Transformer-based Text-to-Speech with Knowledge Distillation
Erik Henriksson, Tom Merritt, Rasmus Dall, Felix Vaughan, Veronica Morfi
Aug 5, 2025|KDD
An Audio-centric Multi-task Learning Framework for Streaming Ads Targeting on Spotify
Shivam Verma, Vivian Chen, Darren Mei
Aug 5, 2025|KDD
ForTune: Running Offline Scenarios to Estimate Impact on Business Metrics
Georges Dupret, Konstantin Sozinov, Carmen Barcena Gonzalez, Ziggy Zacks, Amber Yuan, Ben Carterette, Manuel Mai, Andrey Gatash, Gwo Liang Lien, Shubham Bansal, Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda, Mounia Lalmas
Aug 5, 2025|KDD
Optimising Budget Management via Primal-Dual Approximation with Constrained Polynomial Weights Update
Dmitrii Moor, Per Berglund, Hannes Karlbom, Zhenwen Dai, Kyle Kretschman, Mounia Lalmas
Jul 23, 2025|SIGIR
Zero-Shot Reranking with Large Language Models and Precomputed Ranking Features: Opportunities and Limitations
Maria Movin, Claudia Hauff
Jul 8, 2025|AISTATS
The hardness of validating observational studies with experimental data
Jake Fawkes, Michael O’Riordan, Athanasios Vlontzos, Oriol Corcoll, Ciarán Gilligan-Lee
Jul 8, 2025|CLeaR - Causal Learning and Reasoning
Local Interference: Removing Interference Bias in Semi-Parametric Causal Models
Michael O'Riordan, Ciarán Gilligan-Lee
Jul 8, 2025|ICWSM
Link Me Baby One More Time: Social Music Discovery on Spotify
Shazia'Ayn Babul, Desislava Hristova, Antonio Lima, Renaud Lambiotte, Mariano Beguerisse-Díaz
Jul 8, 2025|ECIR
Contextualizing Spotify’s Audiobook List Recommendations with Descriptive Shelves
Gustavo Penha, Alice Wang, Martin Achenbach, Kristen Sheets, Sahitya Mantravadi, Remi Galvez, Nico Guetta-Jeanrenaud, Divya Narayanan, Ofeliya Kalaydzhyan, and Hugues Bouchard
Jul 8, 2025|FAccT
Policy-as-Pormpt: Rethinking Content Moderation in the Age of Large Language Models
Konstantina Palla, José Luis Redondo García, Claudia Hauff, Francesco Fabbri, Henrik Lindström, Daniel R. Taber, Andreas Damianou, Mounia Lalmas
Apr 29, 2025|2024 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT)
Classification Of Spontaneous And Scripted Speech For Multilingual Audio
Shahar Elisha, Andrew McDowell, Mariano Beguerisse-Díaz, Emmanouil Benetos

Explore our publications and scientific contributions

LLARK : A Multimodal Instruction-Following Language Model for Music

Calibrated Recommendations with Contextual Bandits

Evaluating Podcast Recommendations with Profile-Aware LLM-as-a-Judge

Semantic IDs for Joint Generative Search and Recommendation

AudioBoost: Increasing Audiobook Retrievability in Spotify Search with Synthetic Query Generation

Generalized User Representations for Large-Scale Recommendations and Downstream Tasks

Prompt-to-Slate: Diffusion Models for Prompt-Conditioned Slate Generation

You Say Search, I Say Recs: A Scalable Agentic Approach to Query Understanding and Exploratory Search at Spotify

Describe What You See with Multimodal Large Language Models to Enhance Video Recommendations

Scaling Transformer-based Text-to-Speech with Knowledge Distillation

An Audio-centric Multi-task Learning Framework for Streaming Ads Targeting on Spotify

ForTune: Running Offline Scenarios to Estimate Impact on Business Metrics

Optimising Budget Management via Primal-Dual Approximation with Constrained Polynomial Weights Update

Zero-Shot Reranking with Large Language Models and Precomputed Ranking Features: Opportunities and Limitations

The hardness of validating observational studies with experimental data

Local Interference: Removing Interference Bias in Semi-Parametric Causal Models

Link Me Baby One More Time: Social Music Discovery on Spotify

Contextualizing Spotify’s Audiobook List Recommendations with Descriptive Shelves

Policy-as-Pormpt: Rethinking Content Moderation in the Age of Large Language Models

Classification Of Spontaneous And Scripted Speech For Multilingual Audio