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Yandex Introduces Sona: A Single Generative Recommender That Replaces Entire Recommendation Cascade

Yandex Music replaced its multi-stage recommendation cascade with Sona, a single generative recommender built on one transformer that performs both candidate generation and ranking without hand-engineered features, according to MarkTechPost. In A/B testing, Sona lifted likes by 11.42%.

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One transformer ran candidate generation and ranking in Yandex Music's A/B test without hand-engineered features, lifting likes 11.42%.

The post Yandex Introduces Sona: A Single Generative Recommender That Replaces Entire Recommendation Cascade appeared first on MarkTechPost.

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