ללמד LLMs לדבר Spotify — Yves Raimond & Jacqueline Wood, Spotify

תקציר מקורי באנגליתOne in four US Spotify Premium subscribers now use a single system every day, which Spotify calls the Large Taste Model. Yves Raimond, Spotify's SVP and GM of AI & Personalization, explains how Spotify turned its recommendation system "on its head" to be LLM-native. It went from curated playlists, to recommendations like Discover Weekly, to what Spotify calls generative personalization: a steerable DJ, prompted playlists, an editable taste profile and personal podcasts, across a catalog of more than 100 million tracks plus podcasts and audiobooks. Staff ML Engineer Jacqueline Wood then shows how the models are trained with NEO, Spotify's four-stage recipe. Semantic IDs are added to an open-weight LLM like Qwen. The new tokens are grounded while the backbone stays frozen, which keeps its la