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Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations

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Re: Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations

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Post by blahi »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #21
Eliezer wrote: post #10

I noticed that YouTube's recommendations had suddenly gotten better! I wondered if they were using a new statistical approach, or had just started really optimizing at all because the old recommendations were extremely naive. I'm actually a little disappointed to find out that it might just be another deep learning thing. (Yes, it works, but I feel like you learn a little less about problem structure when what you re…

Throwing passive aggressive shade at what is current state of the art in machine learning is unwarranted.

Please. Deep learning is cool and all and has its applications but state if the art inplies that it,s the best for everything when in reality is that they are just very good for a very little subset of problems.

Re: Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations

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Post by kbart »

I'm skeptic about recommendation feature. My reaction to them, in these rare occasions when not get ignored all together, in all sites ranges from 'huh?' to 'wtf?'. Specifically Youtube gives geographic location too much weight -- just because I live in a certain country, it doesn't I'm interesting in all these trending local shit-pop music or stupid 'fun' videos.

Re: Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations

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Post by thr0waway1239 »

kbart wrote: post #72

I'm skeptic about recommendation feature. My reaction to them, in these rare occasions when not get ignored all together, in all sites ranges from 'huh?' to 'wtf?'. Specifically Youtube gives geographic location too much weight -- just because I live in a certain country, it doesn't I'm interesting in all these trending local shit-pop music or stupid 'fun' videos.

I can confirm this. I saw a lot of region-based, really stereotyping videos when I got a new computer and visited YouTube. While I understand they need to fill up the home page with something, I just prefer they can be a little more creative about the whole thing.

After glancing through the top few, I quickly went for the search box. To their credit, once I do a few searches, the recommendations drastically improved when visiting next time.

A side effect of this, of course, is that you can study all kinds of stereotyping and biases by repeating my experiment in various regions I suppose.

Re: Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations

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Post by genofon »

thr0waway1239 wrote: post #73
kbart wrote: post #72

I'm skeptic about recommendation feature. My reaction to them, in these rare occasions when not get ignored all together, in all sites ranges from 'huh?' to 'wtf?'. Specifically Youtube gives geographic location too much weight -- just because I live in a certain country, it doesn't I'm interesting in all these trending local shit-pop music or stupid 'fun' videos.

I can confirm this. I saw a lot of region-based, really stereotyping videos when I got a new computer and visited YouTube. While I understand they need to fill up the home page with something, I just prefer they can be a little more creative about the whole thing. After glancing through the top few, I quickly went for the search box. To their credit, once I do a few searches, the recommendations drastically improved…

if they don't have any good information about you other than your location what else would you recommend rather than the most popular in that location?

Re: Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations

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Post by primary0 »

dsco wrote: post #22

One of the very best recommendation engines I've encountered is the "Discover Weekly" playlist from Spotify. It's helped me reconsider my relationship to music which I basically thought was dead since I had hit a rut on exploring new artists. There's an interesting presentation of how it's created on SlideShare http://www.slideshare.net/MrChrisJohnson/from-idea-to-execut...

There's also a new personalised and auto-updated playlist called Release Radar. You should check it out!

Re: Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations

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Post by intoverflow2 »

I'd be more interested if YouTube recommendations took into account users I've blocked.

Sometimes YouTube recommends me videos with clickbaity gross thumbnails or from YouTubers I dislike or have no desire to watch but there is nothing I can do to to stop it recommending these to me, why can't I just go to these users profiles and block them and have them removed from my YT experience?

Block just seems to stop people from messaging you, not from you being shown their videos by an algorithm.

Re: Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations

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Post by intoverflow2 »

pcovington wrote: post #17

Author here - happy to answer questions about the techniques in the paper. We're super excited to finally share this work externally. Feedback about YouTube recommendations in general also welcome.

> Feedback about YouTube recommendations in general

Please make it so I can block specific YouTube users from EVER being recommended to me, or showing up in sidebars or whatever.

I feel these features might actually start being useful to me if there was a way to tell YT "Please, please stop showing me this users videos, I absolutely never want to watch them at all".

My personal curation > your algorithms.

Re: Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations

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Post by eva1984 »

fatman13gg wrote: post #46

Go through the comments of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGe4uWEvwe8 People were literally bizarred by youtube, saying they were there by recommendation. (I have this video in the recommendations also...)

Ahh...This happens to me also, there is one day, my recommendations is flooded with this CandianMum, and I didn't really watch that much, if any, video of relationship on Youtube.

Re: Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations

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Post by noiv »

I use YT mostly for new music, interesting documentaries and the occasional fun. Beside that there are one-off searches for random topics. Regarding the latter recommendation won't help, because it's not fast enough to tell me which aspect I'm missing. Regarding the former three I'd love to know whether there are users who liked the same videos. So please, recommend users not videos and let me do the rest.

Re: Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations

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Post by aedron »

qd6pwu4 wrote: post #44

I hate that one day I happened to click one video and watched it, then youtube starts to recommend videos on the same topic day after day, even if I marked them as not interested, they still show up time to time...

Or you watch something in privacy and now you can't open up Youtube in front of anyone anymore.
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