3 papers
cs.IR2026
Sona Technical Report
Sona Team, Alexandr Udeneev, Aleksei Krasilnikov +32
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.IR2026
Long-History User Transformers for Real-Time Ad Ranking
Viacheslav Ovchinnikov, Georgii Smirnov, Nikolai Savushkin +2
Long interaction histories are among the most informative inputs for click-through rate (CTR) prediction, yet in online advertising they collide with a hard serving constraint: ads…
cs.IR2023
RecBaselines2023: a new dataset for choosing baselines for recommender models
Veronika Ivanova, Oleg Lashinin, Marina Ananyeva +1
The number of proposed recommender algorithms continues to grow. The authors propose new approaches and compare them with existing models, called baselines. Due to the large number…