Give Users the Wheel
What if you could simply tell a recommendation system what you want instead of relying on likes, dislikes, and watch history? Kyle Polich talks with Fuyuan Lyu about the DPR framework, which combines ...
23 Jun 35min
AutoLike
How can researchers audit recommendation systems when the algorithms are hidden from view? Hieu Le joins Kyle Polich to discuss Auto-Like, a reinforcement learning framework that systematically explor...
17 Jun 35min
Student Spotlight: Aaron Payne, Data Analyst
Aaron Payne, an MBA student at Georgia Tech studying business analytics and a Senior Insights Analyst at Chick-fil-A, joins Kyle Polich to talk about turning analytics into decisions that matter. They...
1 Mai 25min
The Future is Agentic in Recommender Systems
Kyle Polich sits down with Yashar Deldjoo, research scientist and Associate Professor at the Polytechnic University of Bari, to explore how recommender systems have evolved and why trustworthiness mat...
25 Apr 49min
Book Ratings and Recommendations
Goodreads star ratings can be misleading as measures of "book quality," and research from Hannes Rosenbusch suggests that for many professionally published books, differences between readers often mat...
27 Mar 39min
Disentanglement and Interpretability in Recommender Systems
Ervin Dervishaj, a PhD student at the University of Copenhagen, discusses his research on disentangled representation learning in recommender systems, finding that while disentanglement strongly corre...
10 Mar 30min
Collective Altruism in Recommender Systems
Ekaterina (Kat) Fedorova from MIT EECS joins us to discuss strategic learning in recommender systems—what happens when users collectively coordinate to game recommendation algorithms. Kat's research r...
27 Feb 54min
Niche vs Mainstream
Anas Buhayh discusses multi-stakeholder fairness in recommender systems and the S'mores framework—a simulation allowing users to choose between mainstream and niche algorithms. His research shows spec...
18 Feb 34min
