Netflix Prize

2009

Figure 2. A simplified illustration of the latent factor approach, which characterizes both users and movies using two axes—male versus female and serious versus escapist.

(Koren, Bell, & Volinsky, 2009)

Koren, Y., Bell, R., & Volinsky, C. (2009). Matrix Factorization Techniques for Recommender Systems. Computer, 42(8), 30–37. [link]

2002 - Collaborative Filtering
theme: recommendation

2016 - Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations
theme: recommendation