How Pandora deploys machine learning models into production with Amelia and Filip
Amelia and Filip give insights into the recommender systems powering Pandora, from developing models to balancing effectiveness and efficiency in production. Amelia Nybakke is a Software Engineer at Pandora. Her team is responsible for the production system that serves models to listeners. Filip Korzeniowski is a Senior Scientist at Pandora working on recommender systems. Before that, he was a PhD student working on deep neural networks for acoustic and language modeling applied to musical audio recordings. Connect with Amelia and Filip: Amelia s LinkedIn: Filip s LinkedIn: Timestamps: 0:00 Sneak peek, intro 0:42 What type of ML models are at Pandora 3:39 What makes two songs similar or not similar 7:33 Improving models and A, B testing 8:52 Chaining, retraining, versioning, and tracking models 13:29 Useful development tools 15:10 Debugging models 18:28 Communicating progress 20:
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