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Podcast: Recsperts - Recommender Systems Experts
Episode: #13: The Netflix Recommender System and Beyond with Justin Basilico
Description: This episode of Recsperts features Justin Basilico who is director of research and engineering at Netflix. Justin leads the team that is in charge of creating a personalized homepage. We learn more about the evolution of the Netflix recommender system from rating prediction to using deep learning, contextual multi-armed bandits and reinforcement learning to perform personalized page construction. Deep content understanding drives the creation of useful groupings of videos to be shown in a personalized homepage.Justin and I discuss the misalignment of metrics as just one out of many elements that is making personalization still “super ha...