How does YouTube recommend videos? - AI EXPLAINED!
Channel: CodeEmporium
Date: 2019-06-03

How does Youtube recommend videos? This is a question you’ve all thought about at least once. There is much talk in the creator community that YouTube only values “watch time”. But is this really true? In this video, I am going to break down google’s paper on YouTube’s recommender system. Along the way, we are going to look at different types of such recommender systems, listing the pros, cons and mode of Operation for each. Techie or not, you are going to learn a lot. 

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Resources

[1] Smarter everyday’s youtube analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PGm8LslEb4
[2] Markiplier’s youtube is broken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPKXgrvdnaQ
[3] Quora answer: https://www.quora.com/How-does-YouTubes-recommendation-algorithm-work
[4] Google’s 2017 paper : http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/45530.pdf
[5] Candidate Sampling: https://www.tensorflow.org/extras/candidate_sampling.pdf
[6] Simple blog to understand candidate sampling (big picture): https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/reducing-computational-cost-mathematically-shamane-siriwardhana/
[7] Ecommerce Collaborative Filtering: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7abd/05d0e17bdf24d7c7babad74b6118d91d84d7.pdf
[8] Collaborative Filtering Stanford Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9gpufJFF-0