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o.koch@criteo.com
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RecSys Meetup London - Sept 20, 2017
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Outline
• What we do
• Now what?
• Build banners showing products that users will like / want to buy.
User
= ?
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Lessons learned from building
a CF system at scale
Start simple (counters)
Randomize
intuitive
simple to implement
Specializing Joint Representations for the task of Product Recommendation, Thomas Nedelec,
Elena Smirnova, Flavian Vasile, RecSys 2017 DL Workshop, arXiv:1706.07625
Contextual RNNs
Contextual Sequence Modeling for Recommendation with Recurrent Neural Networks, Elena
Smirnova, Flavian Vasile, RecSys 2017 DL Workshop, arXiv:1706.07684
Deep learning to the rescue
Compressed embeddings
Getting Deep Recommenders Fit: Bloom Embeddings for Sparse Binary Input/Output Networks
by Joan Serrà and Alexandros Karatzoglou, RecSys 2017
Can we build neural network architectures that will make our recommendations
more relevant?
At scale.
Attribution and incrementality
The true objective of recommendation is to predict and show ads that cause new
(incremental) sales
http://research.criteo.com/dataset-release-evaluation-counterfactual-algorithms/
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http://labs.criteo.com/rd-jobs/