Recommending what video to watch next: a multitask ranking system
Proceedings of the 13th ACM conference on recommender systems, 2019•dl.acm.org
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 …
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 …
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.