Nonlinear Latent Factorization for Recommender Systems (feat. Condé Nast)

Washington, D.C. Campus

GA D.C.
509 7th Street NW, 3rd Floor
Washington D.C. 20004

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Nonlinear Latent Factorization for Recommender Systems (feat. Condé Nast) | Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. Campus

GA D.C.
509 7th Street NW, 3rd Floor
Washington D.C. 20004

Past Locations for this Event

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Tentative Schedule:

  • 6:30pm: Pizza + Beer networking
  • 7:00pm: TBD by Data Scientist at Dataiku
  • 7:30pm: Nonlinear Latent Factorization for Personalized Recommender System by TaeYoung Choi, Data Scientist at Conde Nast
  • Talk Abstracts:

    Nonlinear Latent Factorization for Personalized Recommender System by TaeYoung Choi, Data Scientist at Conde Nast The New Yorker publishes about 90 new articles every week and about half of the pageviews are made within the first 24hrs. As The New Yorker is renowned for its political and cultural commentary, its articles in general have shorter lifespans compared to other items such as IPhone cases on Amazon or Bad Guy by Billie Eillish on Spotify. In other words, we do not have time to gather enough data - we are constantly facing the cold-start problem. This talk will cover how I approached the problem by creating user embeddings that will allow us to make recommendations as soon as a new article gets published. The model burrows the famous word2vec architecture and contains additional layers that incorporate nonlinearity to capture multiple interests for our readers.

    Speaker bio: TaeYoung a data scientist at Condé Nast, home to some of the world's most iconic brands, including Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Vanity Fair and Wired. At Condé Nast, he has led various data science projects such as traffic forecasting, subscription churn, user segmentation and classification, and content personalization. He's passionate about personalization and recommendation. He's previously participated in developing a data science pipeline at MyCelebs, (a Korean-based data science AI start-up), and worked as a graduate researcher at Columbia Business School, building matching algorithms from unstructured data for Executive Education Program.

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