2 papers
cs.AI2026
Explainable Recommendations at Scale: LLM Rationales for YouTube Music Artist Discovery
Xiao Liu, Yanwei Song, Srivaths Ranganathan +7
Modern music streaming platforms face a persistent tradeoff: exploiting familiar content versus driving the exploration of novel items. While users frequently desire discovery, the…
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…