Two-stage Model for Automatic Playlist Continuation at Scale

@article{Volkovs2018TwostageMF,
  title={Two-stage Model for Automatic Playlist Continuation at Scale},
  author={Maksims Volkovs and Himanshu Rai and Zhaoyue Cheng and Ga Wu and Y. Lu and Scott Sanner},
  journal={Proceedings of the ACM Recommender Systems Challenge 2018},
  year={2018}
}
Automatic playlist continuation is a prominent problem in music recommendation. Significant portion of music consumption is now done online through playlists and playlist-like online radio stations. Manually compiling playlists for consumers is a highly time consuming task that is difficult to do at scale given the diversity of tastes and the large amount of musical content available. Consequently, automated playlist continuation has received increasing attention recently [1, 7, 11]. The 2018… 
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