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20202025
most citedRecommending Podcasts for Cold-Start Users Based on Music Listening and Taste

12 citations · 16 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Calibrated Recommendations with Contextual Bandits

Diego Feijer, Himan Abdollahpouri, Sanket Gupta +7

Spotify's Home page features a variety of content types, including music, podcasts, and audiobooks. However, historical data is heavily skewed toward music, making it challenging t…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Practical Bandits: An Industry Perspective

Bram van den Akker, Olivier Jeunen, Ying Li +3

The bandit paradigm provides a unified modeling framework for problems that require decision-making under uncertainty. Because many business metrics can be viewed as rewards (a.k.a…

cs.IR2023

Episodes Discovery Recommendation with Multi-Source Augmentations

Ziwei Fan, Alice Wang, Zahra Nazari

Recommender systems (RS) commonly retrieve potential candidate items for users from a massive number of items by modeling user interests based on historical interactions. However,…

cs.IR2022★ 1 cited

Sequential Recommendation via Stochastic Self-Attention

Ziwei Fan, Zhiwei Liu, Alice Wang +4

Sequential recommendation models the dynamics of a user's previous behaviors in order to forecast the next item, and has drawn a lot of attention. Transformer-based approaches, whi…

cs.IR2021★ 1 cited

Current Challenges and Future Directions in Podcast Information Access

Rosie Jones, Hamed Zamani, Markus Schedl +11

Podcasts are spoken documents across a wide-range of genres and styles, with growing listenership across the world, and a rapidly lowering barrier to entry for both listeners and c…

cs.IR2020★ 12 cited

Recommending Podcasts for Cold-Start Users Based on Music Listening and Taste

Zahra Nazari, Christophe Charbuillet, Johan Pages +4

Recommender systems are increasingly used to predict and serve content that aligns with user taste, yet the task of matching new users with relevant content remains a challenge. We…