TL;DR: Across a broad spectrum of product features, Spotify’s array of recommender systems play a pivotal role in tailoring personalized user experiences and helping creators grow. The post Accelerating Creator Audience Building through Centralized Exploration appeared first on Spotify Research ..read more

We developed a Named Entity Disambiguation (NED) method to assist human curators in finding and correcting infrequent errors in a music catalog. The post Which Witch? Artist name disambiguation and catalog curation using audio and metadata appeared first on Spotify Research ..read more

We study the problem of constructing personalized playlists for users of music streaming services, in our case Spotify. The post Exploiting Sequential Music Preferences via Optimisation-Based Sequencing appeared first on Spotify Research ..read more

Spotify’s search system plays a vital role in helping users explore the catalog and discover new content. The post Graph Learning for Exploratory Query Suggestions in an Instant Search System appeared first on Spotify Research ..read more

Every day, music is enjoyed, created, and discovered by billions of people around the globe – and yet, existing AI systems largely struggle to model the nuances that make music different from other forms of audio. The post LLark: A Multimodal Foundation Model for Music appeared first on Spotify Research ..read more

7am I usually wake up around 7am and have breakfast with my husband before he goes to work. We chat about what’s in the news or what we’ve got planned for the day. Then I get myself ready and log on to my computer – I’m a real morning person, so I like to get going... View Article The post Azin Ghazimatin: Research Scientist appeared first on Spotify Research ..read more

Existing spoken Language Identification (SLI) solutions focus on detecting languages from short audio clips. Podcast audio, on the other hand, poses peculiar challenges... The post Audio-based Machine Learning Model for Podcast Language Identification appeared first on Spotify Research ..read more

Launching a radical change to a habitual feature, used by millions every day, presents an interesting challenge. The post Redesigning Your Library with Mixed Methods Insights appeared first on Spotify Research ..read more

7am I usually wake up around 7am – I’m not a morning person by nature, but I have two young children who apparently are! We have breakfast together as a family and do the nursery drop-off. Then, depending on where I’m working that day, I’ll either stroll home or cycle into the office, listening to... View Article The post Andreas Damianou: Senior Scientist appeared first on Spotify Research ..read more

Allowing users to discover new entities such as books, music, and movies is an important goal for online platforms. This can be achieved for example by recommending entities that the user has not yet interacted with. Another way users can find new entities is by exploring the catalog with the search system. The post Improving Retrievability in Search with Query Generation appeared first on Spotify Research ..read more