Introduction to Ranking and Recommendations | Recommender Systems Lectures

In this lecture, we draw connections between the world of rankings and recommendations. We look at different popular industry case-studies and take a look at how recommendations design is done at scale at different companies. This lecture was taught at University of Washington, Seattle in summer of 2022, as part of the course on Recommender Systems. Chapters 0:00 Course Logistics 1:35 Types Ranking Problems 6:35 Recommendations Ranking 14:40 YouTube Recommendations Model 48:28 Ranking Model YouTube 1:00:39 Recommendations/Ranking at other places