by Xavier Amatriain and Justin Basilico (Personalization Science and Engineering) In this two-part blog post, we will open the doors of one of the most …
Building Recommender Systems
Here is a curated collection of my favourite posts for people starting out in recommender systems and personalization. This was created in preparation for our summer interns in the recommendations team at Flipboard!
Introduction to Recommender Systems
by Xavier Amatriain and Justin Basilico (Personalization Science and Engineering) In part one of this blog post, we detailed the different components of …
Distance Metrics and Similarity Measures
Matrix Factorization and Collaborative Filtering
In a previous post I wrote about how to build a 'People Who Like This Also Like ...' feature for displaying lists of similar musicians. My goal was …
One of the core methods used within Zillow’s home recommendation engine is collaborative filtering. There are several ways collaborative filtering …
Topic Modeling
Deep learning based Recommender Systems
Model Evaluation
Recsys in the wild
Lessons Learned from building online systems - Xavier Amatriain
Over a year ago, following an original presentation at MLConf, I wrote a blog post entitled “10 Lessons Learned from building ML systems”. At that …
Cautionary Tale from RecSys 2019
And of course - to finish off, the infamous paper from last year's RecSys. :)
Abstract: Deep learning techniques have become the method of choice for researchers working on algorithmic aspects of recommender systems. With the …




























