RecSys 2022: Recap, Favorite Papers, and Lessons

Eugene Yan · 3 years ago

RecSys 2022, held September 18-23 in Seattle, received 50% more industry submissions than 2021 with 15 industry papers integrated into the main track. Key papers covered sequential recommendations using recency-based sampling, off-policy bandits for industry applications, efficiency improvements in ads recommendation models, and unified frameworks for multiple recommendation tasks. The conference emphasized reproducibility, fairness, privacy, and real-world applications, with notable findings that model implementation significantly affects results and dataset selection matters for performance comparisons.