Algorithms and Architecture for Real-time Recommendations at News UK
Abstract
Recommendation systems are recognised as being hugely important in industry, and the area is now well understood. At News UK, there is a requirement to be able to quickly generate recommendations for users on news items as they are published. However, little has been published about systems that can generate recommendations in response to changes in recommendable items and user behaviour in a very short space of time. In this paper we describe a new algorithm for updating collaborative filtering models incrementally, and demonstrate its effectiveness on clickstream data from The Times. We also describe the architecture that allows recommendations to be generated on the fly, and how we have made each component scalable. The system is currently being used in production at News UK.
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@article{arxiv.1709.05278,
title = {Algorithms and Architecture for Real-time Recommendations at News UK},
author = {Dion Bailey and Tom Pajak and Daoud Clarke and Carlos Rodriguez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.05278},
year = {2017}
}
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Accepted for presentation at AI-2017 Thirty-seventh SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Cambridge, England 12-14 December 2017