Recsysml
@recsysml.bsky.social
https://recsysml.substack.com/
RecSysML focuses on applied machine learning within recommender systems, covering topics such as generative recommendations, contextual bandits for ad placement, and ranking model calibration.
RecSysML focuses on applied machine learning within recommender systems, covering topics such as generative recommendations, contextual bandits for ad placement, and ranking model calibration.
A big change is coming in recsys. Long ago ranking models were actually ranking when it was doing pairwise ranking. Then it became an estimator model in the era of VM. Can we unlock all the RL advances of LLMs by making ranking a reward maximizing model again.
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The Case for RL-Aligned Ranking in RecSys
Why recsys industry is stuck on probability estimation, and how RLHF is the missing link.
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January 10, 2026 at 6:23 PM
A big change is coming in recsys. Long ago ranking models were actually ranking when it was doing pairwise ranking. Then it became an estimator model in the era of VM. Can we unlock all the RL advances of LLMs by making ranking a reward maximizing model again.
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#LLM vs #RecommenderSystems (Part 2/3) 👉 recsysml.substack.com/p/recsys-ret... is about Retrieval.
And this is where the analogy with LLMs becomes surprisingly tight.
Core idea:
Retrieval in recommender systems plays the same role as pretraining in LLMs.
We show clustering > "Semantic IDs"
And this is where the analogy with LLMs becomes surprisingly tight.
Core idea:
Retrieval in recommender systems plays the same role as pretraining in LLMs.
We show clustering > "Semantic IDs"
December 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
#LLM vs #RecommenderSystems (Part 2/3) 👉 recsysml.substack.com/p/recsys-ret... is about Retrieval.
And this is where the analogy with LLMs becomes surprisingly tight.
Core idea:
Retrieval in recommender systems plays the same role as pretraining in LLMs.
We show clustering > "Semantic IDs"
And this is where the analogy with LLMs becomes surprisingly tight.
Core idea:
Retrieval in recommender systems plays the same role as pretraining in LLMs.
We show clustering > "Semantic IDs"
In this three part series I compare #LLM and #RecommenderSystems to show the gaps and opportunities. They are surprisingly fewer than one would think.
Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/recsysml...
Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/recsysml...
Ranking Models explained: Deep Dive into RecSys Architecture (Features, Embeddings, & Attention)
Watch now (18 mins) | What happens post retrieval in a recommender system
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December 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
In this three part series I compare #LLM and #RecommenderSystems to show the gaps and opportunities. They are surprisingly fewer than one would think.
Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/recsysml...
Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/recsysml...
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@bsky.app please enable rage shakes
Also when I watch a video in full screen, after that the only thing I can do is close the app since all controls are not visible.
Also when I watch a video in full screen, after that the only thing I can do is close the app since all controls are not visible.
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
@bsky.app please enable rage shakes
Also when I watch a video in full screen, after that the only thing I can do is close the app since all controls are not visible.
Also when I watch a video in full screen, after that the only thing I can do is close the app since all controls are not visible.
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Update: The US National Debt has now surpassed $39 trillion. It was $36 trillion when Trump took office earlier this year. Trump’s tariff manipulation has also nearly wiped out entire industries across the United States, countless now unemployed.
The official statement from the MAGA White House as the US hits a rapidly increasing all-time high $38 trillion national debt, is:
“At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.”
“At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.”
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Update: The US National Debt has now surpassed $39 trillion. It was $36 trillion when Trump took office earlier this year. Trump’s tariff manipulation has also nearly wiped out entire industries across the United States, countless now unemployed.
For folks who are following the trend of “generative recommendations”, I’d love to know what you feel is the best ight version of semantic id in your domain. For instance if we were to build a feed ranking for Bluesky using generative recs what would the “semantic” id be?
November 24, 2025 at 6:28 AM
For folks who are following the trend of “generative recommendations”, I’d love to know what you feel is the best ight version of semantic id in your domain. For instance if we were to build a feed ranking for Bluesky using generative recs what would the “semantic” id be?
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Tesla Q3 2025 California sales were down 9% YoY despite the huge rush for BEVs ahead of the Sept-30th expiry of the $7,500 tax credit.
The BEV market ex-Tesla grew by 29% YoY in Q3, causing Tesla's share of California's BEV market to drop from 57% in Q3 2024 to 48%.
www.cncda.org/news/califor...
The BEV market ex-Tesla grew by 29% YoY in Q3, causing Tesla's share of California's BEV market to drop from 57% in Q3 2024 to 48%.
www.cncda.org/news/califor...
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Tesla Q3 2025 California sales were down 9% YoY despite the huge rush for BEVs ahead of the Sept-30th expiry of the $7,500 tax credit.
The BEV market ex-Tesla grew by 29% YoY in Q3, causing Tesla's share of California's BEV market to drop from 57% in Q3 2024 to 48%.
www.cncda.org/news/califor...
The BEV market ex-Tesla grew by 29% YoY in Q3, causing Tesla's share of California's BEV market to drop from 57% in Q3 2024 to 48%.
www.cncda.org/news/califor...
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Yes, Mr. President: You’re right. We do have “the worst health care” of any major country.
Despite spending twice as much per capita, we are the only major country not to guarantee health care to all as a human right.
The solution: Medicare for All.
Despite spending twice as much per capita, we are the only major country not to guarantee health care to all as a human right.
The solution: Medicare for All.
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Yes, Mr. President: You’re right. We do have “the worst health care” of any major country.
Despite spending twice as much per capita, we are the only major country not to guarantee health care to all as a human right.
The solution: Medicare for All.
Despite spending twice as much per capita, we are the only major country not to guarantee health care to all as a human right.
The solution: Medicare for All.
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this warms the cockles of my heart. "These giants are standing tall against fossil fuels, rising up out of the ocean like a middle finger against CO2."
August 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
this warms the cockles of my heart. "These giants are standing tall against fossil fuels, rising up out of the ocean like a middle finger against CO2."
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“Only in NYC can you have a pedicab driving down the street with tourists blasting Billy Joel’s music — and Billy Joel pulls up next to them.” 💕
- @wutangforchildren.bsky.social
- @wutangforchildren.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
“Only in NYC can you have a pedicab driving down the street with tourists blasting Billy Joel’s music — and Billy Joel pulls up next to them.” 💕
- @wutangforchildren.bsky.social
- @wutangforchildren.bsky.social
At some point people are going to ask if it is really worth it, are their better alternatives to this, by better I mean just fair, just honest and transparent
July 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
At some point people are going to ask if it is really worth it, are their better alternatives to this, by better I mean just fair, just honest and transparent
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This Osprey is so majestic…. 🥰
And in the bird world this is considered a sick move….
And in the bird world this is considered a sick move….
July 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This Osprey is so majestic…. 🥰
And in the bird world this is considered a sick move….
And in the bird world this is considered a sick move….
The words still stand youtu.be/F2AitTPI5U0?...
Michael Jackson - Black Or White (Official Video - Shortened Version)
YouTube video by michaeljacksonVEVO
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July 20, 2025 at 5:11 AM
The words still stand youtu.be/F2AitTPI5U0?...
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Aidan Bedford
"Interspecies interaction between humpback whale and bottlenose dolphins."
"Interspecies interaction between humpback whale and bottlenose dolphins."
July 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Aidan Bedford
"Interspecies interaction between humpback whale and bottlenose dolphins."
"Interspecies interaction between humpback whale and bottlenose dolphins."
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The moment Stephen Colbert said I don’t give a flying f**€k to Paramount and CBS.
July 18, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The moment Stephen Colbert said I don’t give a flying f**€k to Paramount and CBS.
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WHOA. One of Eric Adams' former police commissioners just filed a lawsuit accusing him of running the NYPD like a "racketeering enterprise."
July 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
WHOA. One of Eric Adams' former police commissioners just filed a lawsuit accusing him of running the NYPD like a "racketeering enterprise."
Working on PyTorch implementation of traditional retrieval to generative recs github.com/gauravchak/g...
My goal is to help #recsysml ppl in my team and otherwise to understand the leap to #llm style modeling.
My goal is to help #recsysml ppl in my team and otherwise to understand the leap to #llm style modeling.
GitHub - gauravchak/generative_friending_recommendations: This repository walks through a few ideas of how to implement generative recommendations for friending recommendations and in doing so describ...
This repository walks through a few ideas of how to implement generative recommendations for friending recommendations and in doing so describes the complexity or what is uniquely difficult in frie...
github.com
July 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Working on PyTorch implementation of traditional retrieval to generative recs github.com/gauravchak/g...
My goal is to help #recsysml ppl in my team and otherwise to understand the leap to #llm style modeling.
My goal is to help #recsysml ppl in my team and otherwise to understand the leap to #llm style modeling.
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Ex-farm worker here.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
July 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Ex-farm worker here.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
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AAAAAAA I JUST RECORDED THIS!!!! best lightning capture of my life
July 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
AAAAAAA I JUST RECORDED THIS!!!! best lightning capture of my life
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I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
July 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
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Daughter of street vendor asking why police aren't helping!! Broken heart 💔
🖕🏽 LAPD
🖕🏽 LAPD
July 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Daughter of street vendor asking why police aren't helping!! Broken heart 💔
🖕🏽 LAPD
🖕🏽 LAPD
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Sometimes you see articles about child math prodigies that turn out to be them proving an aesthetically pleasing but useless bit of trivia, but this looks like the first case (since Tao?) of a 17-year old girl solving a major open problem in a single author paper english.elpais.com/science-tech...
July 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Sometimes you see articles about child math prodigies that turn out to be them proving an aesthetically pleasing but useless bit of trivia, but this looks like the first case (since Tao?) of a 17-year old girl solving a major open problem in a single author paper english.elpais.com/science-tech...
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Or when I said this ?
www.cnbc.com/2019/05/14/m... Mark Cuban: 'We at the top' can make less to fix income inequality
www.cnbc.com/2019/05/14/m... Mark Cuban: 'We at the top' can make less to fix income inequality
July 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Or when I said this ?
www.cnbc.com/2019/05/14/m... Mark Cuban: 'We at the top' can make less to fix income inequality
www.cnbc.com/2019/05/14/m... Mark Cuban: 'We at the top' can make less to fix income inequality
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How and where we won.
What we won on Election Day
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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July 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
How and where we won.