<story><title>Monolith: The Recommendation System Behind TikTok</title><url>https://gantry.io/blog/papers-to-know-20230110/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chadrs</author><text>I must be rare in that the longer I use tiktok, the less relevant the recommendations feel. Maybe because I compulsively watch videos until the end even if I don&amp;#x27;t like them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>&amp;gt; Maybe because I compulsively watch videos until the end even if I don&amp;#x27;t like them.&lt;p&gt;That would definitely do it, basically destroying their most important signal.&lt;p&gt;TikTok is best in class for recommendeding content and I personally haven&amp;#x27;t see a dip in quality. Aka I never get trashy videos or anything cringe, just a consistent stream of science&amp;#x2F;tech, local Toronto restaurant reviews, cat videos, etc</text></comment>
<story><title>Monolith: The Recommendation System Behind TikTok</title><url>https://gantry.io/blog/papers-to-know-20230110/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chadrs</author><text>I must be rare in that the longer I use tiktok, the less relevant the recommendations feel. Maybe because I compulsively watch videos until the end even if I don&amp;#x27;t like them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jabbany</author><text>Seems like a common problem of recommenders tbh.&lt;p&gt;Like binary search, they&amp;#x27;re really good at finding local optima quickly, and then are rather bad at getting out of them once they get there.</text></comment>