Pinterest has the world’s largest catalog of human curated ideas. We’re building a visual discovery engine with 100+ billion ideas, collected by 175+ million people worldwide. As we work to match the right Pin to the right person at the right time, personalization is crucial. Random graph walks with restart are an excellent way to surface popular, high quality, relevant content. But we can also show you great ideas you may not even have known you were looking for - and that’s where vector embedding comes in. We embed you and these billions of ideas in a 128 or 256 dimensional space. Then we project them down into 1000 bits, cut them up into 16 bit chunks, index these chunks, and then find these ideas for you really fast using core search technology.
Bio
Brian joined Pinterest in 2017 as the Head of Knowledge. He was previously at eBay, Handspring, Excite@Home, Synopsys, and AT&T Bell Labs. Brian received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland. His original Treemap data visualization paper has been cited thousands of times.
33. Graph Walks & Vector Embeddings:
Exploiting the head and exploring the tail
Pinterest has the world’s largest catalog of human curated ideas. We’re building a visual
discovery engine with 100+ billion ideas, collected by 175+ million people worldwide. As we work
to match the right Pin to the right person at the right time, personalization is crucial. Random
graph walks with restart are an excellent way to surface popular, high quality, relevant content.
But we can also show you great ideas you may not even have known you were looking for - and
that’s where vector embedding comes in. We embed you and these billions of ideas in a 128 or
256 dimensional space. Then we project them down into 1000 bits, cut them up into 16 bit
chunks, index these chunks, and then find these ideas for you really fast using core search
technology.
Brian joined Pinterest in 2017 as the Head of Knowledge. He was previously at eBay, Handspring,
Excite@Home, Synopsys, and AT&T Bell Labs. Brian received his Ph.D. in Computer Science
from the University of Maryland. His original Treemap data visualization paper has been cited
thousands of times.