For the past decade, Spotify has used approximate nearest-neighbor search technology to power our personalization, recommendation, and search systems. These [...]
What is “Exclude from your taste profile”? Are you a parent forced to put the Bluey theme song on repeat? [...]
As the field of machine learning (ML) continues to evolve and its impact on society and various aspects of our [...]
Introducing Basic Pitch, Spotify’s free open source tool for converting audio into MIDI. Basic Pitch uses machine learning to transcribe [...]
Beyond term-based Search Until recently, Search at Spotify relied mostly on term matching. For example, if you type the query [...]
Introduction Building platforms is a hard business. Building platforms for discerning machine learning (ML) practitioners with bespoke needs and a [...]
Machine learning is what drives personalization on Spotify. We may have a single platform with 381 million different users, but [...]
In Part I of this two-part series, we talked about the challenges we faced with the models we use to [...]
At Spotify, our goal is to connect listeners with creators, and one way we do that is by recommending quality [...]
5:00 am My days begin with an early morning wake-up call from Zev – he comes through at around 5am and [...]
TL;DR We just open sourced Klio — our framework for building smarter data pipelines for audio and other media processing. [...]
The launch of Shortcuts, which now appears at the top of Spotify Home, is an important step forward in how listeners [...]
Tony joined Spotify New York last summer as VP of Engineering and Head of Machine Learning. Here, he talks us through his busy working days and explains why he’s glad to be part of the band [...]
This article is based on the keynote given by Tony Jebara at TensorFlow World in Santa Clara, California, October 2019. [...]
Lynn is one of our Staff Engineers and has just celebrated her six-year anniversary at Spotify. Starting out in our San Francisco office, she later moved to NYC and now lives in Manhattan with her cat, Glitch [...]
When Spotify launched in 2008 in Sweden, and in 2011 in the United States, people were amazed that they could access almost the world’s entire music catalog [...]
By Fiona Condon. Slack’s search makes the work history for collaborative teams discoverable and exploreable. Software engineer Fiona Condon explains [...]
Spotify presented its first Machine Learning Day at Spotify headquarters in Stockholm on Monday 9th July to coincide with the International Conference on Machine Learning [...]
We are happy to announce the first Spotify Machine Learning Day taking place Monday, July 9th, 2018, 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM at Spotify, Regeringsgatan 19, Stockholm, Sweden [...]
Here at Spotify, we love playlists. Playlists like Today’s Top Hits and RapCaviar have millions of loyal followers, while Discover Weekly [...]
What’s your name and where are you from? My name is Charlie and I come from the US and grew [...]
Five years ago, music personalization at Spotify was a tiny team. The team read papers, developed models, wrote data pipelines [...]
