Shaped Blog

Daniel Oliver Belando
May 9, 2023
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6
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Explainable AI

Explainable AI is increasingly important as it helps users understand the decision-making processes of machine learning models, ensuring fairness, addressing potential biases, and complying with regulations.

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Heorhii Skovorodnikov
May 8, 2023
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11
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Not your average RecSys metrics Part 2: Novelty

This blog post discusses the importance of novelty in recommendation systems and how it can improve user experience by providing diverse and unexpected suggestions.

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Heorhii Skovorodnikov
April 28, 2023
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6
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Not your average RecSys metrics. Part 1: Serendipity

Let’s go beyond standard machine learning performance measurements and explore at how we can create Serendipity in a high performance recommendation system

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Daniel Camilleri
April 25, 2023
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8
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How much data do I need for a recommendation system?

If you’re interested in recommendation systems but not sure whether you have enough data this blog post is for you!

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Jaime Ferrando Huertas
March 31, 2023
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10
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Twitter's Open Source Algorithm - Unveiling the code, but not the secrets

Twitter has recently unveiled its open-source recommendation algorithm, aiming to offer users greater transparency into the process through which the platform selects and organizes content for display on their timelines.

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AI/ML
Robert Lucian Chiriac
March 29, 2023
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15
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MovieLens to Production in Minutes

Learn how to use Shaped to build a personalized movie recommendation with the classic MovieLens dataset!

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Tutorial
Heorhii Skovorodnikov
March 28, 2023
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10
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Evaluating recommendation systems (ROC, AUC, and Precision-Recall)

You probably have heard of terms like ROC, AUC, and Precision-recall, they show up in data science articles on Medium, machine learning tutorials, and academic papers are full of them. But why are they so important and what do they actually mean? Today we will dive into the specifics of those essential metrics, and explain how they work and their importance in the world of machine learning and recommendation systems.

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Ben Theunissen
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3
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Real-time Segment and Amplitude Connectors

Shaped is excited to announce that we now support real-time data streaming connectors for Amplitude and Segment.

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Features
Tullie Murrell
March 22, 2023
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5
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Shaped 1.0: The fastest way to personalize your product, platform or marketplace

We’re excited to announce Shaped’s 1.0 release! This launch adds a new level of polish to our APIs, and docs while continuing to improve the performance for your personalization models. It’s now easier than ever to create your own personalization AI using state-of-the-art large language models and real-time streaming technologies.

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Features
Jaime Ferrando Huertas
March 14, 2023
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5
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GPT-4: A New Milestone in Scaling Up Deep Learning

OpenAI has released its latest natural language processing system, GPT-4, which promises to be even more advanced and capable than its predecessor, GPT-3. GPT-4 is built on the same deep learning approach as the previous models but leverages more data and computation to achieve greater sophistication and accuracy.

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AI/ML
Heorhii Skovorodnikov
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15
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Breaking Down Toolformer

Take a look at our discussion on Toolformer — Meta AI's recent approach to fusing large language models (LLM) with external APIs. This might be the start of a new programming paradigm that combines zero-shot machine-learning methodology with traditional software interfaces.

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Jaime Ferrando Huertas
March 7, 2023
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10
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Size Isn't Everything - How LLaMA democratizes access to Large-Language-Models

Recently, Meta announced the release of a new AI language generator called LLaMA. While tech enthusiasts have been primarily focused on language models developed by Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI, LLaMA is a research tool designed to help researchers advance their work in the subfield of AI. In this blog post, we will explain how LLaMA is helping to democratize large language models.

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AI/ML
Tullie Murrell
March 1, 2023
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15
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Evaluating recommendation systems (mAP, MMR, NDCG)

Imagine you’re shown two ordered feeds of product recommendations from separate algorithms. In the first one (A) you’re shown: Nike sneakers, Adidas shorts, and an Apple Watch. In the second one (B) you’re shown the order: Apple Watch, Adidas shorts, and Nike Sneakers. -- Which feed is more relevant to you?

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AI/ML
Heorhii Skovorodnikov
February 24, 2023
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8
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Sounding The Secrets Of AudioLM

Dive into the inner workings of Google AI’s awesome language modeling approach to audio generation!

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Tullie Murrell
February 23, 2023
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5
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Shaped is now SOC 2 Compliant

Shaped is SOC 2 Type 1 certified and compliant, a significant milestone in our journey to provide secure and trustworthy products to customers. This certification demonstrates our commitment to our customer’s data security, providing third-party attestations of our company’s security and compliance standards.

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Technology
Nina Shenker-Tauris
February 21, 2023
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10
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Do Large Language Models (LLMs) reason?

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), enabling significant advancements in language understanding, text generation, and more. With the help of memorization and compositionality capabilities, LLMs can perform various tasks like never before. They're already at the core of several products used by millions of people, such as Google's search engine, Github's Copilot, and OpenAI's ChatGPT!

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AI/ML
Heorhii Skovorodnikov
February 17, 2023
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12
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The Secret Sauce of Tik-Tok’s Recommendations

Dive into the inner workings of TikTok’s awesome real-time recommendation system and learn what makes it one of the best in the field!

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Tullie Murrell
February 7, 2023
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12
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Evaluating Recommendation Systems - Precision@k, Recall@k, and R-Precision

Imagine you’re given three movie recommendations from separate algorithms. In the first one (A) you’re given: The Terminator, James Bond, and Star Wars. In the second (B) you’re given: Cars, Toy Story, and Iron Man -- Which recommendation is more relevant to you?

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AI/ML
Javier Jorge Cano
January 24, 2023
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11
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Whisper 🤫 : A multilingual and multitask robust ASR model

Open-AI released Whisper, an open source speech recognition model with human level robustness and accuracy on English language. Trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web.

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Jaime Ferrando Huertas
January 16, 2023
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10
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Microsoft vs Google - ChatGPT taking over search?

If you haven't been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you've probably heard about the ChatGPT hype and how it's changed how people think of large language models (LLMs). You might not be aware that Microsoft and OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, have been working closely together since 2019 [1]; there are speculations that Microsoft intends to increase its investment by $10 billion [2].

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AI/ML
Daniel Camilleri
December 23, 2022
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9
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Shaped vs. Algolia Recommend

Comparing Shaped with Algolia Recommend

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Tullie Murrell
December 5, 2022
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10
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Real-time Search, Session, and Similar Ranking

Today we’re excited to announce the release of several APIs and features that help you get the most from your Shaped ranking and recommendation models.

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Features
Jaime Ferrando Huertas
December 2, 2022
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10
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Asking ChatGPT about itself and the future of chatbots

OpenAI just released a new large language model fine-tuned for conversational AI based on gpt-3.5. We tried it out at https://chat.openai.com/chat and asked to write a blog post about itself, the results are amazing!

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AI/ML
Jaime Ferrando Huertas
October 24, 2022
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10
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Why your feeds are getting worse over time

If you’ve ever browsed TikTok’s For You Page, Facebook Newsfeed, Instagram Reels, Youtube Shorts, or any “infinite” scrolling social feed you have been served personalized recommendations. These feeds use algorithms to find out what content will keep you browsing the feed. I’ve seen many people complain about how their personalized feeds get worse over time, recommending the same topic over and over, old content, or even things you already consumed.

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AI/ML
Jaime Ferrando Huertas
September 28, 2022
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5
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Your browsing behavior is being modeled as a language

What if I told you that your web browsing is being modeled as a language in most of the web pages you visit? Let me show you why and how.

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AI/ML
Daniel Camilleri
September 22, 2022
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10
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Day 3 of #Recsys2022: our favorite 5 papers and talks

The last day at RecSys 2022 started with a session on Sessions and Interaction, moved on to Models and Learning to finish with Large-Scale Recommendations. Here are our favorite 5 papers and talks of the day.

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AI/ML
Tullie Murrell
September 20, 2022
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10
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Day 2 of #RecSys2022: Our favorite 5 papers and talks

It’s been another fantastic day at RecSys 2022. Following the Women in RecSys Breakfast, the day started with a keynote from Catherine D’Ignazio and then throughout the day had the following sessions: Fairness & Privacy, Diversity & Novely, and Models and Learning I. Here are our favorite 5 papers and talks.

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AI/ML
Jaime Ferrando Huertas
September 19, 2022
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Day 1 of #Recsys2022: Our favorite 5 papers and talks

We just wrapped up a fantastic first day at Recsys2022 in Seattle. If you see the Shaped team come say hi. Here are our favorite 5 papers and talks of the day.

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Daniel Camilleri
September 9, 2022
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8
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Shaped vs. AWS Personalize

Comparing Shaped with AWS Personalize

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Javier Iranzo-Sanchez
September 1, 2022
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3
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10 ways AI will change products and experiences in the next 5 years

The field of artificial intelligence is growing at an extraordinary speed. Check out some selected topics that we think AI will affect and be a big factor in the upcoming years.

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AI/ML
Tullie Murrell
August 31, 2022
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4
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A ranking model for every use-case!

Introducing Shaped's "Model API". A configuration API to Shaped's multi-stage recommendation system.

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Features
Jazlyn Lin
August 30, 2022
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7
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Exploration vs. Exploitation in Recommendation Systems

Problems with bias in recommendation systems and what you can do about them.

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AI/ML
Nina Shenker-Tauris
August 24, 2022
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12
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Yann LeCun: A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence

How could machines learn as efficiently as humans and animals?

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Daniel Camilleri
August 22, 2022
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8
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From Analytics to Action

A little less analytics, a little more action please.

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Javier Iranzo-Sanchez
August 8, 2022
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11
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Information Retrieval Systems, the precursors of Recommender Systems

Not sure about the differences between information retrieval systems and recommender systems? Don't worry, we got you covered.

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Jaime Ferrando Huertas
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10
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Takeaways from the Nvidia Recommender Systems Summit 2022

This year’s recommender systems summit included a great set of speakers, each one sharing unique learnings on working with recommender systems.

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Tullie Murrell
July 12, 2022
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10
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Data-Centric AI for Ranking

Data quality and volume is what makes rankings algorithms at big-tech so seamless. How can you create the same experiences with the data you have? Data-centric AI may be the answer!

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AI/ML
Tullie Murrell
June 1, 2022
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3
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Shaped API Docs

We just released Shaped's API docs at: docs.shaped.ai

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Daniel Camilleri
May 19, 2022
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4
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Why Airbnb Made Such a Big Deal About Categories

From Search based to Discovery first

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Tullie Murrell
April 27, 2022
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2
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$1.9M Seed Round

Shaped is proud to announce our $1.9 million seed round!

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Daniel Camilleri
March 29, 2022
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2
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YC Demo Day W22

We just presented to 1500 investors at Demo Day W22!

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Daniel Camilleri
March 1, 2022
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2
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Shaped is backed by Y Combinator

We’re excited to announce that Shaped is backed by Y Combinator as part of its Winter 2022 batch!

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