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Published October 2, 2018 | Version v1
Conference paper Open

Using Adversarial Autoencoders for Multi-Modal Automatic Playlist Continuation

  • 1. ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
  • 2. Kiel University
  • 3. University of Stirling

Description

 

The task of automatic playlist continuation is generating a list of recommended tracks that can be added to an existing playlist. By suggesting appropriate tracks, i.e., songs to add to a playlist, a recommender system can increase the user engagement by making playlist creation easier, as well as extending listening beyond the end of the current playlist. The ACM Recommender Systems Challenge 2018 focuses on such a task. Spotify released a dataset of playlists, which includes a large number of playlists and associated track listings. Given a set of playlists from which a number of tracks have been withheld, the goal is predicting the missing tracks in those playlists. We participated in the challenge as the team Unconscious Bias and, in this paper, we present our approach. We extend adversarial autoencoders to the problem of automatic playlist continuation. We show how multiple input modalities, such as the playlist titles as well as track titles, artists and albums, can be incorporated in the playlist continuation task.

Notes

© Iacopo Vagliano | ACM 2018. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in RecSys Challenge '18 - Proceedings of the ACM Recommender Systems Challenge 2018, http://doi.org/10.1145/3267471.3267476.

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Funding

MOVING – Training towards a society of data-savvy information professionals to enable open leadership innovation 693092
European Commission