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20202026
most citedCarousel Personalization in Music Streaming Apps with Contextual Bandits

35 citations · 49 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

math.NA2026

Fully Deterministic Shallow Neural Networks with Localized Activations. Part I: Construction and Optimal Sobolev Approximation

Ran Bi, Weibing Deng

We construct shallow neural networks with fixed Gaussian and tanh-difference activations on bounded Lipschitz domains , . For each , explicit dete…

cs.LG2025

Exploring Large Action Sets with Hyperspherical Embeddings using von Mises-Fisher Sampling

Walid Bendada, Guillaume Salha-Galvan, Romain Hennequin +3

This paper introduces von Mises-Fisher exploration (vMF-exp), a scalable method for exploring large action sets in reinforcement learning problems where hyperspherical embedding ve…

cs.IR2025

Text2Playlist: Generating Personalized Playlists from Text on Deezer

Mathieu Delcluze, Antoine Khoury, Clémence Vast +4

The streaming service Deezer heavily relies on the search to help users navigate through its extensive music catalog. Nonetheless, it is primarily designed to find specific items a…

cs.IR2024

Let's Get It Started: Fostering the Discoverability of New Releases on Deezer

Léa Briand, Théo Bontempelli, Walid Bendada +5

This paper presents our recent initiatives to foster the discoverability of new releases on the music streaming service Deezer. After introducing our search and recommendation feat…

cs.IR2023★ 1 cited

On the Consistency of Average Embeddings for Item Recommendation

Walid Bendada, Guillaume Salha-Galvan, Romain Hennequin +2

A prevalent practice in recommender systems consists in averaging item embeddings to represent users or higher-level concepts in the same embedding space. This paper investigates t…

cs.IR2023

Track Mix Generation on Music Streaming Services using Transformers

Walid Bendada, Théo Bontempelli, Mathieu Morlon +4

This paper introduces Track Mix, a personalized playlist generation system released in 2022 on the music streaming service Deezer. Track Mix automatically generates "mix" playlists…

cs.IR2023★ 13 cited

A Scalable Framework for Automatic Playlist Continuation on Music Streaming Services

Walid Bendada, Guillaume Salha-Galvan, Thomas Bouabça +1

Music streaming services often aim to recommend songs for users to extend the playlists they have created on these services. However, extending playlists while preserving their mus…

cs.IR2021

A Semi-Personalized System for User Cold Start Recommendation on Music Streaming Apps

Léa Briand, Guillaume Salha-Galvan, Walid Bendada +2

Music streaming services heavily rely on recommender systems to improve their users' experience, by helping them navigate through a large musical catalog and discover new songs, al…

cs.LG2020★ 35 cited

Carousel Personalization in Music Streaming Apps with Contextual Bandits

Walid Bendada, Guillaume Salha, Théo Bontempelli

Media services providers, such as music streaming platforms, frequently leverage swipeable carousels to recommend personalized content to their users. However, selecting the most r…