29. ‣ Scale of catalog
● 30M tracks; 2B playlists
● Training
○ 25B data points
○ 100M users
○ 60 countries represented
‣ Cold-Start
○ New Users
○ New Music
Challenges unique to spotify
37. Deep Learning
1. No feature extraction necessary
2. LOTS of simple learning nodes in many layers
3. Propogate errors backwards to learn optimal
weights
4. Needs LOTS of data
40. Deep Learning on Audio at Spotify
Sander Dieleman: http://benanne.github.io/2014/08/05/spotify-cnns.html
Input: Audio
spectrogram
Output: Latent
Space Vector