2 papers
cs.LG2026
Lightweight Ranking Heads: Accelerating Multi-Task Experimentation in Production Recommender Systems
Sanjay Surendranath Girija, Aniruddh Nath, Li Wei +6
Modern production-scale recommender systems rely on complex, multi-task ranking models. Introducing new prediction tasks into these massive systems often causes bottlenecks - it ri…
cs.IR2026
Zero-shot Cross-domain Knowledge Distillation: A Case study on YouTube Music
Srivaths Ranganathan, Nikhil Khani, Shawn Andrews +8
Knowledge Distillation (KD) has been widely used to improve the quality of latency sensitive models serving live traffic. However, applying KD in production recommender systems wit…