Search & Recommendations

Search & recommendations research at Spotify focuses on identifying ways to provide users with seamless access to their favorite audio content, from music to podcasts, and to help them explore their taste. A big focus is on building highly effective, personalized and interactive models that exploit contextual information and historical user interactions. Our research interests include large-scale recommendation algorithms for music and more generally audio discovery, algorithms for audio search through voice and text, query analysis for effective query suggestion, query completion and search assistance, multilingual information retrieval for voice search, and ranking algorithm for revenue and music ads.

Latest Search & Recommendations Publications

May 2023 | TheWebConf

Improving Content Retrievability in Search with Controllable Query Generation

Gustavo Penha, Enrico Palumbo, Maryam Aziz, Alice Wang, and Hugues Bouchard

March 2023 | Frontier on Big Data: Recommender Systems

A Survey on Multi-objective Recommender Systems

Dietmar Jannach and Himan Abdollahpouri

March 2023 | Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)

Enabling Goal-Focused Exploration of Podcasts in Interactive Recommender Systems

Yu Liang, Aditya Ponnada, Paul Lamere, Nediyana Daskalova

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