Design a cold-start video recommender
Problem Description
Design a cold-start recommendation pipeline for a short-video platform. The system must effectively provide recommendations for:
- New users with little or no interaction history.
- New videos with little or no engagement data.
You may assume that various graph information is available, including user-user, user-video, creator-video, hashtag-video, and video-video relations.
Your design should describe the following aspects:
- The overall offline and online architecture.
- The utilization of both content features and graph features.
- The candidate generation and ranking stages.
- Strategies for handling the exploration versus exploitation dilemma.
- Mechanisms for incorporating real-time feedback and performing model updates.
- Relevant metrics, guardrails, and experimental methodologies.
- The process by which the system transitions from cold-start recommendations to fully personalized recommendations.
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Core dilemma
The central engineering conflict is generating relevant recommendations for entities (users/videos) with no historical interaction data, while simultaneously collecting enough data to transition to personalized recommendations, all within a low-latency, high-throughput environment.
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Design a cold-start video recommender
Problem Description
Design a cold-start recommendation pipeline for a short-video platform. The system must effectively provide recommendations for:
- New users with little or no interaction history.
- New videos with little or no engagement data.
You may assume that various graph information is available, including user-user, user-video, creator-video, hashtag-video, and video-video relations.
Your design should describe the following aspects:
- The overall offline and online architecture.
- The utilization of both content features and graph features.
- The candidate generation and ranking stages.
- Strategies for handling the exploration versus exploitation dilemma.
- Mechanisms for incorporating real-time feedback and performing model updates.
- Relevant metrics, guardrails, and experimental methodologies.
- The process by which the system transitions from cold-start recommendations to fully personalized recommendations.