How YouTube is Recommending Your Next Video - KDnuggets

In a recent paper [1] published by Google researchers and presented at RecSys 2019 (Copenhagen, Denmark) insight was provided in how their video platform Youtube recommends which videos to watch. In this blogpost I will try to summarise my findings after reading this paper. When users are watching videos on Youtube, a list of recommended videos are displayed which the user might like in a certain order. How to effectively and efficiently learn to reduce such biases is an open question. The described model in this paper focuses on the two main objectives.