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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 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

    • Aug 5, 2025|KDD

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

      Shivam Verma, Vivian Chen, Darren Mei

    • 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

    • Oct 23, 2023|CIKM

      Exploiting Sequential Music Preferences via Optimisation-Based Sequencing

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

    • Jul 23, 2023|KDD

      Impatient Bandits: Optimizing for the Long-Term Without Delay

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

    • Jul 19, 2023|KDD

      Automatic Music Playlist Generation via Simulation-based Reinforcement Learning

      Federico Tomasi, Joseph Cauteruccio, Surya Kanoria, Kamil Ciosek, Matteo Rinaldi, Zhenwen Dai

    • Mar 23, 2023|Frontier on Big Data: Recommender Systems

      A Survey on Multi-objective Recommender Systems

      Dietmar Jannach and Himan Abdollahpouri

    • Mar 21, 2023|Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)

      Enabling Goal-Focused Exploration of Podcasts in Interactive Recommender Systems

      Yu Liang, Aditya Ponnada, Paul Lamere, Nediyana Daskalova

    • Feb 21, 2023|WSDM

      Calibrated Recommendations as a Minimum-Cost Flow Problem

      Himan Abdollahpouri, Zahra Nazari, Alex Gain,Clay Giibson, Maria Dimakopoulou, Jesse Anderton, Benjamin Carterette, Mounia Lalmas, Tony Jebara

    • Nov 18, 2022|NeurIPS

      Temporally-Consistent Survival Analysis

      Lucas Maystre, Daniel Russo

    • Aug 2, 2022|UAI

      Multistate analysis with infinite mixtures of Markov chains

      Lucas Maystre, Tiffany Wu, Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda, Tony Jebara

    • Jun 7, 2022|ICWSM

      Time after Time: Longitudinal Trends in Nostalgic Listening

      Clara Hanson, Jesse Anderton, Samuel F. Way, Ian Anderson, Scott Wolf, Alice Wang

    • Jun 7, 2022|ICWSM

      The Dynamics of Exploration on Spotify

      Lillio Mok, Samuel F. Way, Lucas Maystre, Ashton Anderson

    • Apr 26, 2022|The Web Conference (WWW)

      Mostra: A Flexible Balancing Framework to Trade-off User, Artist and Platform Objectives for Music Sequencing

      Emanuele Bugliarello, Rishabh Mehrotra, James Kirk, Mounia Lalmas

    • Mar 18, 2022|Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)

      TastePaths: Enabling deeper exploration and understanding of personal preferences in recommender systems

      Savvas Petridis, Nediyana Daskalova, Sarah Mennicken, Samuel F. Way, Paul Lamere, Jennifer Thom

    • Jul 26, 2021|ACL

      Modeling Language Usage and Listener Engagement in Podcasts

      Sravana Reddy, Mariya Lazarova, Yongze Yu, Rosie Jones

    • Apr 19, 2021|The Web Conference

      Where To Next? A Dynamic Model of User Preferences

      Francesco Sanna Passino, Lucas Maystre, Dmitrii Moor, Ashton Anderson, Mounia Lalmas

    • Apr 12, 2021|AISTATS

      Collaborative Classification from Noisy Labels

      Lucas Maystre, Nagarjuna Kumarappan, Judith Bütepage, Mounia Lalmas

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