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There are recent works that question whether "deep" learning algorithms, and in particular neural networks, are really advancing the state of the art of recomme
by timkam 7y ago
There are recent works that question whether "deep" learning algorithms, and in particular neural networks, are really advancing the state of the art of recommender systems: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.06902.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.06902.pdf (Best Paper Award, RecSys 2019). It is strange that the blog post fails to mention this.
- amznthrowaway5 7y agoYeah, this has been a well known problem in the field for a while now, and not just with DNN approaches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system#Reproducibility_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system#Reproducibi... These systems almost never work in production. The publications are usually very deceptive.