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Ben Dickson's avatar

Awesome overview of the recommendation landscape, with lots of good links and rabbit holes to go down into. Keep up the great work!

Kartik Singhal's avatar

Thanks @Ben. Means a lot coming from you !!

Nirmal Budhathoki's avatar

Thanks for summarizing so many awesome papers. My best one was the knowledge distillation with student- teacher model. this is where SLM (Small Language Models) will have its strong use cases. They learn fast and run fast :)

Kartik Singhal's avatar

Thanks Nirmal for reading. Yeah for sure. Student teacher model is the way to go and gives great performance improvements !

Adriana Vanegas's avatar

I’m not very in the weeds with LLMs but this post was really helpful to learn about how researchers are thinking of making LLMs even more efficient. Excellent crash course, even for an LLM newbie like me!

Kartik Singhal's avatar

Thank you Adriana ! Glad you liked it

Josep Ferrer's avatar

It is such a pleasure reading you Kartik! Love how you broke down the concept of Recommendation System and give some modern application examples. Thanks for sharing!!

Kartik Singhal's avatar

Thank you so much Josep !! Glad you liked it !!

Rohan Dehal's avatar

Fascinating post, Kartik! I'm interested to see how these LLM integrations will impact recommendation systems in practice as they will move towards wider implementation -- Particularly in how the probabilistic aspects might affect audience targeting accuracy and content personalization.

Kartik Singhal's avatar

Rohan yes!! Its very interesting times ahead. Actually they are impacting them even now but just under the hood in lot of the cases :)

Hemant Pandey's avatar

Great insights into how LLMs can play a part in better recommendation engines. Thanks for sharing

Kartik Singhal's avatar

Thanks for the feedback Hemant !

Logan Thorneloe's avatar

Excellent article! Thank you for including my article 😊

Kartik Singhal's avatar

Thank you so much Logan !!

Andres Vourakis's avatar

This was very insightful. It gives me a lot of inspiration for how I could use LLMs in future technical projects.

By the way, I’m quite interested in the topic of synthetic data generation. Have you played around with it?

Great article and thank you very much for the shoutout!

Kartik Singhal's avatar

Yeah quite a lot actually. Happy to answer any questions !!

Andres Vourakis's avatar

Great! I’ll send you a DM later 🙏