2 papers
cs.IR2026
Sona Technical Report
Sona Team, Alexandr Udeneev, Aleksei Krasilnikov +33
We introduce Sona, a single-model generative recommender for Yandex Music. In an online A/B test, Sona replaced the entire production cascade, comprising more than 15 candidate gen…
cs.IR2025
Yambda-5B -- A Large-Scale Multi-modal Dataset for Ranking And Retrieval
A. Ploshkin, V. Tytskiy, A. Pismenny +6
We present Yambda-5B, a large-scale open dataset sourced from the Yandex Music streaming platform. Yambda-5B contains 4.79 billion user-item interactions from 1 million users acros…