Slides: Recsys Keynote: Improving Recommendation Systems & Search in the Age of LLMs - Eugene Yan, Amazon
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Recsys Keynote: Improving Recommendation Systems & Search in the Age of LLMs - Eugene Yan, Amazon
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Enriching exploratory search queries @ Spotify
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Apply metadata expansion
rules (<artist> + "cover")
Apply LLMs to generate
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Get regular,
existing results
Query rank optimized for
stream, add-to-playlist, etc
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