{"slug": "yandex-introduces-sona-a-single-generative-recommender-that-replaces-entire", "title": "Yandex Introduces Sona: A Single Generative Recommender That Replaces Entire Recommendation Cascade", "summary": "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%.", "body_md": "One transformer ran candidate generation and ranking in Yandex Music's A/B test without hand-engineered features, lifting likes 11.42%.\n\nThe post [Yandex Introduces Sona: A Single Generative Recommender That Replaces Entire Recommendation Cascade](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/05/yandex-introduces-sona-a-single-generative-recommender-that-replaces-entire-recommendation-cascade/) appeared first on [MarkTechPost](https://www.marktechpost.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/yandex-introduces-sona-a-single-generative-recommender-that-replaces-entire", "canonical_source": "https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/05/yandex-introduces-sona-a-single-generative-recommender-that-replaces-entire-recommendation-cascade/", "published_at": "2026-10-05 08:10:37+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-05 08:18:05.364574+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["machine-learning", "generative-ai", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Yandex", "Yandex Music", "Sona", "MarkTechPost"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/yandex-introduces-sona-a-single-generative-recommender-that-replaces-entire", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/yandex-introduces-sona-a-single-generative-recommender-that-replaces-entire.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/yandex-introduces-sona-a-single-generative-recommender-that-replaces-entire.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/yandex-introduces-sona-a-single-generative-recommender-that-replaces-entire.jsonld"}}