TikTok Parent ByteDance Reveals its SOTA Recommendation Engine

Earlier this week, we released a story on how TikTok has revolutionised the short-video industry through its recommendation system. In just five years, the platform acquired about 1.2 billion monthly active users (as per Q4 2021) and is estimated to reach 1.8 billion users by the end of year. Today, tech giant ByteDance revealed the main structure of'Monolith', TikTok's recommendation system's algorithm. TikTok has undoubtedly taken over the internet by basically reading your mind to get personalised content. TikTok is undoubtedly one of the fastest growing social media services and several researchers have credited the app's success to produce their recommender system algorithm. Now, the secret is out.