Pinterest's Image Recommendation System

A Pinterest's Image Recommendation System is an content recommender system that is used by Pinterest.

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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Netflix's Movie Recommender.
  • Amazon's Movie Recommender.
  • LinkedIn Job Recommendation System.
  • Spotify's Song Recommendation System,
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• See: Content Recommendation System, Item Recommendation System, Deep Neural Network for Graph Data.

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References

2018

• (He, 2018) ⇒ Ruining He. (2018). “PinSage: ANew Graph Convolutional Neural Network for Web-Scale Recommender Systems." Blog post of Pinterest Labs
  • QUOTE: ... As a content discovery application, people use Pinterest to save and organize Pins, which are visual bookmarks to online content (recipes, clothes, products, etc.) onto boards. We model the Pinterest environment as a bipartite graph consisting of nodes in two disjoint sets, Pins and boards. Each Pin is associated with certain information like an image and a set of textual annotations (title, description). Here we aim to generate high-quality embeddings of Pins from our bipartite graph with visual and annotation embeddings as input features. ...

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