Recommending What Video to Watch Next: A Multitask Ranking System

被引:208
作者
Zhao, Zhe [1 ]
Hong, Lichan [1 ]
Wei, Li [1 ]
Chen, Jilin [1 ]
Nath, Aniruddh [1 ]
Andrews, Shawn [1 ]
Kumthekar, Aditee [1 ]
Sathiamoorthy, Maheswaran [1 ]
Yi, Xinyang [1 ]
Chi, Ed [1 ]
机构
[1] Google Inc, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA
来源
RECSYS 2019: 13TH ACM CONFERENCE ON RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS | 2019年
关键词
Recommendation and Ranking; Multitask Learning; Selection Bias;
D O I
10.1145/3298689.3346997
中图分类号
TP18 [人工智能理论];
学科分类号
081104 ; 0812 ; 0835 ; 1405 ;
摘要
In this paper, we introduce a large scale multi-objective ranking system for recommending what video to watch next on an industrial video sharing platform. The system faces many real-world challenges, including the presence of multiple competing ranking objectives, as well as implicit selection biases in user feedback. To tackle these challenges, we explored a variety of soft-parameter sharing techniques such as Multi-gate Mixture-of-Experts so as to efficiently optimize for multiple ranking objectives. Additionally, we mitigated the selection biases by adopting a Wide & Deep framework. We demonstrated that our proposed techniques can lead to substantial improvements on recommendation quality on one of the world's largest video sharing platforms.
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页码:43 / 51
页数:9
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