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%.

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 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 .