M2TRec: Metadata-aware Multi-task Transformer for Large-scale and Cold-start free Session-based Recommendations

W Shalaby, S Oh, A Afsharinejad, S Kumar… - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Session-based recommender systems (SBRSs) have shown superior performance over
conventional methods. However, they show limited scalability on large-scale industrial …

Transformers with multi-modal features and post-fusion context for e-commerce session-based recommendation

GSP Moreira, S Rabhi, R Ak, MY Kabir… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Session-based recommendation is an important task for e-commerce services, where a
large number of users browse anonymously or may have very distinct interests for different …

Beyond ndcg: behavioral testing of recommender systems with reclist

PJ Chia, J Tagliabue, F Bianchi, C He… - Companion Proceedings of …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
As with most Machine Learning systems, recommender systems are typically evaluated
through performance metrics computed over held-out data points. However, real-world …

BERT goes shopping: Comparing distributional models for product representations

F Bianchi, B Yu, J Tagliabue - arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.09807, 2020 - arxiv.org
Word embeddings (eg, word2vec) have been applied successfully to eCommerce products
through~\textit {prod2vec}. Inspired by the recent performance improvements on several …

Reasonable scale machine learning with open-source metaflow

J Tagliabue, H Bowne-Anderson, V Tuulos… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
As Machine Learning (ML) gains adoption across industries and new use cases,
practitioners increasingly realize the challenges around effectively developing and iterating …

You do not need a bigger boat: Recommendations at reasonable scale in a (mostly) serverless and open stack

J Tagliabue - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We argue that immature data pipelines are preventing a large portion of industry
practitioners from leveraging the latest research on recommender systems. We propose our …

EvalRS: a rounded evaluation of recommender systems

J Tagliabue, F Bianchi, T Schnabel, G Attanasio… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Much of the complexity of Recommender Systems (RSs) comes from the fact that they are
used as part of more complex applications and affect user experience through a varied …

Building a serverless Data Lakehouse from spare parts

J Tagliabue, C Greco, L Bigon - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.05368, 2023 - arxiv.org
The recently proposed Data Lakehouse architecture is built on open file formats,
performance, and first-class support for data transformation, BI and data science: while the …

Zero party data between hype and hope

A Polonioli - Frontiers in big Data, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Zero Party Data (ZPD) is a hot topic in the context of privacy-aware personalization, as the
exponential growth of consumer data collected by retailers has made safeguarding data …

Text classification for predicting multi-level product categories

H Jahanshahi, O Ozyegen, M Cevik, B Bulut… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
In an online shopping platform, a detailed classification of the products facilitates user
navigation. It also helps online retailers keep track of the price fluctuations in a certain …