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    • 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 5, 2025|KDD

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

      Shivam Verma, Vivian Chen, Darren Mei

    • 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|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

    • Nov 29, 2024|SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science

      Topological Fingerprints for Audio Identification

      Wojciech Reise, Ximena Fernández, Maria Dominguez, Heather A. Harrington, Mariano Beguerisse-Díaz

    • Jun 5, 2024|ICWSM

      Socially-Motivated Music Recommendation

      Ben Lacker, Samuel Way

    • May 15, 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 9, 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 9, 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 1, 2024|WEBSCI

      Exploring Local Music's Place in Global Streaming

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

    • Apr 30, 2024|WEBSCI

      A Genre-Based Analysis of New Music Streaming at Scale

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

    • Apr 29, 2024|The Web Conference

      Long-term off-policy evaluation and learning

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

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