Jul 2026
Breaking the Loop: An Empirical Comparison of Strategies for Novelty and Freshness in YouTube Music
Continuously trained ranking models in music recommenders fall into feedback loops where previously consumed items dominate recommendations. This suppresses two distinct content classes: new releases (temporal freshness) and unlistened catalog items (novelty). Industry practitioners have a wide menu of interventions av...
Srivaths Ranganathan, Zihuan Diao, Bernardo Cunha et al.
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