2. Quick Info
• MIT Boston,15th-19th
September 2016
• 2 parallel sessions
• conference - 3d,
workshops - 2d
3. Deep Learning
Paper Session 8: Deep Learning
Embedding, embedding, embedding…!
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Meta-Prod2Vec - Product Embeddings Using Side-Information
for Recommendation
Parallel Recurrent Neural Network Architectures for Feature-
rich Session-based Recommendations
Recurrent Coevolutionary Feature Embedding Processes for
Recommendation
4. Workshop - RecProfile
• organized by Outbrain
• to read: Incremental Factorization Machines for
PersistentlyCold-starting Online Item
Recommendation, Takuya Kitazawa
• specific problems
• I have to listen how MF works…one more time…
5. Past, Present & Future
• 10 years of RecSys
• Past, Present, and Future of Recommender
Systems: An Industry Perspective, Xavier Amatriain
(Quora), Justin Basilico (Netflix)
• we will see who was right…
6. Contextual Cellenges
• The Contextual Turn: From Context-Aware to
Context-Driven Recommender Systems , Roberto
Pagano, et.al.
• Modeling Contextual Information in Session-Aware
Recommender Systems with Neural Networks,
Bartłomiej Twardowski
7. 2 x Algorithms Sessions
• Local Item-Item Models For Top-N
Recommendation - Best Paper Award!
• Field-aware Factorization Machines for CTR
Prediction - nothing new :-( But at this presentation
I thought about doing intro to FM for WDS meetup.
• Using Navigation to Improve Recommendations in
Real-Time, Chao-Yuan Wu (UT Austin), Christopher
V. Alvino (Netflix), Alexander J. Smola (Carnegie
Mellon University), Justin Basilico (Netflix)
8. Other sessions/tutorials
• Beyond Accuracy - one of the most interesting
session
• User in the Loop
• Cold Start and Hybrid Methods
• Tutorial: Lessons Learned from Building Real-Life
Recommender Systems by Xavier Amatriain
(Quora) and Deepak Agarwal (LinkedIn)
9. Keynotes
• Automated Machine Learning
in the Wild by Claudia Perlich
(Dstillery)
• Personalization for Google
Now by Shashi Thakur
• Peer Effects, Social Multipliers
and Cascades of Human
Behavior by Sinan Aral (MIT)