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This is gonna sound pretty silly, but: You gotta scroll down! The top recommendations on YouTube are often extremely "safe" in the sense that you'll feel bad a
by NavinF 4y ago
This is gonna sound pretty silly, but: You gotta scroll down!
The top recommendations on YouTube are often extremely "safe" in the sense that you'll feel bad about marking them as "not interested" because you already like the video and the uploader. This is likely a bug in their reward function, but if you skip the safe recommendations you'll start seeing more more intelligent recs such as videos that have the same presentation style as the ones you like except they were uploaded by unknown creators with 1k subs. Over time the algorithm will learn that you only like to rewatch certain kinds of videos (music videos in my case) and that you like to be surprised.
Note that refreshing the page doesn't help. It will keep giving you new equally-safe recs until you scroll at least 1 page down and force it to generate new recs.
- bondarchuk 4y ago>if you skip the safe recommendations you'll start seeing more more intelligent recs such as videos that have the same presentation style as the ones you like except they were uploaded by unknown creators with 1k subs. Over time the algorithm will learn that you only like to rewatch certain kinds of videos (music videos in my case) and that you like to be surprised. Why oh why can't you just tell youtube that this is what you want, instead of some elaborate algorithm training dance?
- NavinF 4y agoBuilding an easily tunable recommendation algorithm has been on my bucket list for over a decade. I'm not aware of any serious implementations. I'm sure if you look at the issue trackers for any alternative client for YouTube, you'll find people who strive towards the same goal.
- synu 4y agoInteresting, thanks for the detailed answer. I’m going to give it a shot.