Speaker: Gaurav Chakravorty
Uber TL @Meta, Previously Worked on Facebook Video Recommendations and Instagram Friending and Growth
Gaurav is an Uber TL at Meta Inc, previously in Facebook video recommendations and more recently in Instagram friending and growth. He has worked on end-to-end recommender system advances, including user retention modeling. Prior to this, he has led applied ML based initiatives at Discord and Google, and high frequency trading.
Session
Reinforcement Learning for User Retention in Large-Scale Recommendation Systems
This talk explores the application of reinforcement learning (RL) in large-scale recommendation systems to optimize user retention at scale - the true north star of effective recommendation engines.
Date
Monday Nov 18 / 05:05PM PST ( 50 minutes )
Location
Ballroom BC
