A Random Walk Down Recsys - Part 6

Welcome back to the sixth installment of A Random Walk Down Recsys. This batch is smaller than the last — four papers — but two of them line up neatly enough that they deserve a side-by-side read: Industrial distillation pipelines — ByteDance’s Rec-Distill and Meta’s LoopFM are both attacking the same problem (transferring knowledge from an expensive teacher / foundation model into the prod...