Posts (24)

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2025-08-29
Building Generative Friend Recommendations
Building Generative Friend Recommendations
OneRec has established a blueprint for Generative Video Recs. This post shows what to change for Generative Friend Recommendations
2025-08-24
Using RL to maximize ad revenue without retention tradeoffs
Using RL to maximize ad revenue without retention tradeoffs
Using Contextual Bandits and Predictive Modeling to Optimize Personalized Ad-Placement Policies
2025-06-05
How to implement Generative Retrieval
How to implement Generative Retrieval
GenAI meets recommender systems
2025-05-25
Attention Explained: When to use Self, Graph, and Target-Aware Attention
Attention Explained: When to use Self, Graph, and Target-Aware Attention
Unlocking the Power of AI: A Beginner's Guide to Attention Architectures
2025-05-17
Scalable Embedding based retrieval for target side value
Scalable Embedding based retrieval for target side value
Addressing Scalability Challenges in Two-Sided Embedding based Recommendations
2024-11-24
Friend Recommendation Retrieval in a social network
Friend Recommendation Retrieval in a social network
From Graph Search to Deep Neural Two-Tower Models
2024-09-10
Declarative Value-Model Tuning
Declarative Value-Model Tuning
Code to show a couple of approaches to achieve the desired task importance in value model
2024-06-09
Ranking model calibration in recommender systems
Ranking model calibration in recommender systems
We define calibration of ranking models in calibration, the benefit it can bring to prioritize calibration and how to achieve it without affecting…
2024-05-24
Entrypoint retention modeling in recommender systems
Entrypoint retention modeling in recommender systems
Choose/rank items at the entrypoint of a recommended feed to drive retention and not just consumption
2024-05-11
Optimal whole page ranking = reward / risk
Optimal whole page ranking = reward / risk
We show how tech can learn from finance in using risk models for better feed construction of recommender systems.
2024-05-03
User representation in a recommender system | memorization vs generalization
User representation in a recommender system | memorization vs generalization
We look at memorization, generalization and mixture of representations based implementations for user preference representation in a recommender system
2024-01-20
Reducing selection bias / popularity bias in ranking
Reducing selection bias / popularity bias in ranking
Through the post, code and videos we show how to make your multi-task ranking model unbiased
2024-01-06
How to reduce cost of ranking by knowledge distillation
How to reduce cost of ranking by knowledge distillation
Using knowledge distillation can make your early ranking model more aligned with final ranker + Sample Code + Video walkthrough
2023-12-22
Does your model get better at task T when you rank by estimated probability p(T) ?
Does your model get better at task T when you rank by estimated probability p(T) ?
To understand what to optimize in a ranking model
2023-12-15
System design of an Early Ranker
System design of an Early Ranker
Towards greater user satisfaction, recommendation quality, reduced latency and compute capacity savings + Sample code
2023-11-26
Early (Stage) Ranking in recommender systems
Early (Stage) Ranking in recommender systems
We look at "early (stage) ranking", why it is needed, what is success for it and end with a baseline implementation of it.
2022-08-26
Using ML to build a social networking notification system
Using ML to build a social networking notification system
System design of an ML driven notification system of a social network
2022-07-30
Life of a search query
Life of a search query
Presentation of how search is today and how that is very different from the mental model users have of search in early 2000s
2022-06-24
How to build ML-first products
How to build ML-first products
Problems companies face in adopting ML and how to solve them
2022-05-03
Fairness in ranking
Fairness in ranking
Helping Elon build a "fair" ranking algorithm
2021-12-05
Old-Search ~ training wheels of Neural-Search
Old-Search ~ training wheels of Neural-Search
Why it might be time to be semantic-first and not lexical-first in building search systems
2021-10-14
Logging | How to build self-learning search and recommender systems
Logging | How to build self-learning search and recommender systems
Server side and client side logging needed to build recommender systems, ads and search systems
2021-09-17
Personalized short-video recommender systems
Personalized short-video recommender systems
To recap the previous two articles in this short-video recommendation series, part-1 "Using online learning in short-video recommendations” showed a…
2021-09-11
ML Design Interview | Design a short-video platform Part 2
ML Design Interview | Design a short-video platform Part 2
Applied ML #16 | Part 2 ML Design of a short-video recommendation platform