Reinforcement Learning for Personalization at Spotify with Tony Jebara - #609

This article from Practical AI discusses Spotify's use of machine learning, specifically reinforcement learning (RL), for user personalization. It focuses on a conversation with Tony Jebara, VP of engineering and head of machine learning at Spotify, regarding his talk at NeurIPS 2022. The discussion centers on how Spotify applies Offline RL to enhance user experience and increase lifetime value (LTV). The article highlights the business value of machine learning in recommendations and explores the papers presented in Jebara's talk, which detail methods for determining and improving user LTV. The show notes are available at twimlai.com/go/609.

• •Spotify utilizes reinforcement learning for user personalization.
• •The focus is on applying Offline RL to enhance user experience and increase lifetime value (LTV).
• •The discussion includes papers presented at NeurIPS 2022 detailing methods for determining and improving user LTV.