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We Develop Global Recommendation Service and Share Our Insights Here
SHIELD: The Universal Framework Making AI Search Safer for Everyone
Imagine searching for "glass tubing" and getting recommendations for drug manufacturing equipment. As AI-powered search becomes ubiquitous — from online marketplaces to social networks...
Making Recommendations Fairer: A New Way to Guarantee Exposure for All
As recommender systems become more widespread across digital platforms, concerns around fairness are coming to the forefront. Standard relevance-based ranking techniques, while effective...
Apr 29
2025 Sneak Peek
This year is already off to an exciting start, and we’re rolling out new tools to improve efficiency and optimize recommendations. Here’s what’s available and what’s coming next.
Mar 19
Build vs. Buy: Deciding the Best Approach for Your Recommender System
When it comes to deciding between buying a recommender system and building one from scratch, the choice isn’t always straightforward. Both options come with their own set of pros and cons...
Mar 14
Are You Here to Stay? Unraveling the Dynamics of Stable and Curious Audiences in Web Systems
Why do influencers frequently request their subscribers to enable all notifications for their channels? This practice stems from their awareness that not all subscribers are regular...
Mar 03
Recombee Research 2024
Recombee has always been deeply connected to academia, with four of our six co-founders holding Ph.D. degrees. Over the years, our investment in research has grown alongside our company and the increasing demand for advanced features in the market.
Feb 23
Key Trends in News & Media for 2025 and the Role of AI-Powered Solutions
The way news is produced, delivered, and consumed keeps shifting, and as we move through 2025, a few big changes have become impossible to ignore.
Feb 20
2024 Wrap-Up
As we wrap up 2024, let’s take a moment to celebrate the milestones we’ve achieved together. Your collaboration and feedback have been at the heart of our progress. Here’s a quick recap of last year’s highlights.
Jan 27
Celestial Tiger Entertainment launches new Chinese Movie app, CMGO, with DIAGNAL
With Recombee’s AI-powered recommendation engine working with DIAGNAL Enhance, CMGO serves up personalised experiences for each viewer, driving engagement for the service.
Nov 14, 2024
Introducing beeFormer: A Framework for Training Foundational Models for Recommender Systems
In the fast-evolving world of recommender systems, understanding both how users interact with content and the actual content itself is crucial. Many existing recommender systems struggle to balance these two aspects...
Oct 15, 2024
Video Recommendations Made Easy: Integrating Axinom Mosaic with Recombee
In this webinar we look into building a data-driven video backend geared towards personalized video recommendations, integration with Axinom Mosaic, and how to transform user experiences on streaming platforms.
Sep 09, 2024
Insights: The Next Level of Analytics in Recombee UI
Insights, the analytics section of our Admin UI, offers various predefined and fully customizable reports to track recommended items and how users interact with these recommendations.
May 09, 2024
Recombee Partners With Axinom to Enhance Video Streaming Experiences
This collaboration is set to introduce a new era of personalized and engaging digital user experiences.
Mar 20, 2024
Elevate Your Personalization Strategy with Recombee's Innovative Features
The digital landscape and customer preferences and behavior are changing faster than ever now. To help our clients stay on top of the game, our team has focused on developing innovative features...
Mar 13, 2024
Modern Recommender Systems - Part 2: Data
Data used by modern recommenders and how we can measure progress towards goals.
Mar 07, 2024
Recombee Real-Time AI Recommendations as the New Destination in Segment
Segment has enabled its users to enjoy Recombee personalization services without the need to leave their platform and with minimum coding involved. With a few simple clicks, domains using Segment can upgrade their services to maximize the digital experience for their customers.
Mar 05, 2024
Is This Comment Useful? Enhancing Personalized Recommendations by Considering User Rating Uncertainty
Picture this: you're on the hunt for the perfect new smartphone, browsing through your favourite online electronics store. The online store’s recommendation engine pops up with what it thinks could be your possible next gadget love...
Mar 01, 2024
Recombeelab's 2023 Research Publications
Recombeelab, a joint research laboratory of Recombee and the Faculty of Information Technology at the Czech Technical University in Prague, experienced a highly productive year in 2023, publishing a series of insightful and impactful papers in the field of recommendation systems.
Jan 19, 2024
AI News and Outlook for 2024
We look at the most interesting research directions and assess the state of knowledge in key areas of AI. We'll also estimate future developments in 2024 so you know what to prepare for.
Jan 16, 2024
AI Assistants Know Your Preferences, Even Better Than You Do
Recommender systems and ethical controversies
Nov 23, 2023
The AI (R)Evolution in the Media Industry
In today's digital age, personalization has become the cornerstone of the media industry. Whether it's tailoring content recommendations, refining marketing strategies, or enhancing user experiences...
Oct 23, 2023
Modern Recommender Systems - Part 1: Introduction
How machine learning methods simplify item discovery and search.
Apr 17, 2023
Explaining Recommender Systems to Product Owners
In my presentation at the Data Technology Seminar organized by the European Brodcasting Union, I have focused on demonstrating that recommender systems can actually help public media organizations to better fulfill their role in society and reduce content distribution biases.
Mar 27, 2023
Inductive Matrix Completion: How to Improve Recommendations for Cold Start Users and Items by Incorporating Their Attributes
Matrix completion (MC), the problem of recovering the missing entries of a partially observed matrix, has found use in a wide range of domains. Still, its potentially most successful application is as a collaborative filtering technique for recommender systems (RSs)...
Mar 20, 2023
Breaking the News: The Role of AI in Modern Journalism
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly transformed the media industry in recent years. From automated news production to trend analysis and personalized content recommendations, AI has brought significant changes to the way media is created, distributed, and consumed.
Mar 14, 2023
Innovative Personalization Features for 2023
The digital world is changing; users' expectations for personalization are increasing, and our Recombee features are continuously improving. One of our focuses is to support our clients in providing the best possible user experiences...
Feb 17, 2023
Recombee Item Segmentations
Item Segmentations are Recombee's original and elegant solution to various advanced tasks related to hierarchical and relational data. The feature provides a flexible way to group items (products or pieces of content) into segments...
Jan 11, 2023
Bandit Models: Exploiting Popularity and Curiosity to Recommend Trending Content
Humans are inherently curious. In fact, curiosity is linked to the evolution of humankind. For instance, according to famous historian Yuval Noah Harari in his bestseller book "Sapiens", our language skills evolved as a way of gossiping...
Oct 16, 2022
Keeping Up With Digital Media Convergence
At Recombee, we felt the transition within the media industry accelerated by the pandemic. OTT and CTV consumption ballooned at a significant rate.
Oct 8, 2022
Recombee in E-mail Marketing: A Partner Success Story with Ryzeo
Do you feel there is a potential to increase your success with customers through an efficient recommender engine? You're highly likely right. Adding a recommender service to your emailing campaigns gives each client tailored product recommendations in all of their emails.
Oct 5, 2022
How We Are Using AI to Power Content Recommendations
In this article we walk you through how we are using the AI recommendation engine Recombee embedded in our headless CMS StoryBlok to drive content recommendations throughout our own website.
Sep 31, 2022
Visual and Interactive Evaluation of Recommender Systems
When building modern real-world artificial intelligence systems, it is increasingly important to validate that the system works correctly. This is however not an easy task. Existing tools for machine learning practitioners...
Sep 19, 2022
Real-Time Personalization of Content With AI-Powered Recommendations
Do you manage a publishing company, online gaming platform, or a streaming site with a content-heavy catalog and are thinking about how to improve the user experience?
Sep 16, 2022
AI-Powered Content Recommendations With a Headless CMS
Thanks to its API-first nature, it is quite straightforward to integrate your headless CMS with the most powerful AI-powered content recommendations available on the market. Luminary just did that with their own website, Kontent.ai and Recombee.
Aug 31, 2022
Making Linear Autoencoders Work for Large Scale Recommendation Systems
Linear autoencoders for collaborative filtering in recommender systems are simple and surprisingly accurate as we explained in our blogpost on how linear methods work. The critical disadvantage of methods like EASE is that they are not applicable to real-world problems...
Aug 29, 2022
New Features for a Better Personalization Experience
Like most of the world, the majority of 2021 was spent on home office or in isolation - which left us with all the time to be invested in work (and Netflix :) ) and improving UX for our clients. We are now happy to share new features we can offer to reach new levels of personalization.
Mar 07, 2022
Advancing Your Career in Artificial Intelligence with prg.ai and Recombee
At Recombee, we have always collaborated with academia — after all, five of our co-founders graduated from the Czech Technical University in Prague, one of the largest and oldest technical universities in Europe, and most of them hold a Ph.D. degree.
Nov 21, 2021
Linear Methods and Autoencoders in Recommender Systems
Linear regression is probably the simplest and surprisingly efficient machine learning method. It should be the method of your first choice, according to the famous KISS principle. Also, it often works better than sophisticated methods, because it is...
Sep 7, 2021
Recombee and Kentico Xperience: Guide to One-On-One Personalization
Recombee expanded its integration options - and now is available at the Kentico Xperience platform! Analyzing different types of personalization, we look into why Kentiko chose our AI-powered recommendation engine over manual segmentation.
May 6, 2021
Recombee in 2020: New Features and Improvements
We know that this year has been quite challenging for many people, including ourselves. However, today we want to focus entirely on the positive (no pun included) side of the year and the stuff we are the proudest of.
Dec 30, 2020
Deep Learning for Recommender Systems: Next Basket Prediction and Sequential Product Recommendation
Accurate “next basket prediction” will be enabling next generation e-commerce — predictive shopping and logistics. In this blogpost, we will discuss the deep learning technology behind next basket...
Nov 10, 2020
How Interdisciplinary Collaboration Can Accelerate AI Innovation
In a world where innovation is the new standard, Recombee uses the power of interdisciplinary collaboration to stay at the cutting edge of innovation. Partnering up with the leading player in the food industry (Bofrost) and academia (FIT CTU), allowed Recombee to hold a student competition to create AI which can shape the future of the food industry.
Sep 1, 2020
Introduction to Personalized Search
Personalized search should take into account user preferences and interactions of similar users. We combined search engine and recommender.
Mar 24, 2020
Recombee in 2019: New Features and Improvements
This year was really huge for us. We worked on new features so hard that we almost forgot to write a blog post about them :)
Dec 15, 2019
Check out Our New Client-Side Integration Support and Deploy Personalized Recommendations Faster
We knew we had to bring something new to the table, when participating as a Beta Startup at Web Summit, the largest technology conference…
Jan 7, 2019
Machine Learning for Recommender Systems — Part 2 (Deep Recommendation, Sequence Prediction, AutoML…
In the first part of our talk, we discussed basic algorithms, their evaluation and cold start problem. Below we show how deep learning…
Jun 7, 2018
Machine Learning for Recommender Systems — Part 1 (Algorithms, Evaluation and Cold Start)
Recommender systems are one of the most successful and widespread application of machine learning technologies in business. There were many…
Jun 3, 2018
Migrating to Recombee From Microsoft Cognitive Services Recommendations
Microsoft has recently discontinued the Recommendations within the Azure Cognitive Services (MCSR). If you used this service, you are…
Mar 22, 2018
Personalized Push Notifications Enabled by Artificial Intelligence
Recent progress in artificial intelligence enables us to design proactive AI systems. Whereas traditional recommender systems produce…
Mar 4, 2018
Personalized Recommendations in 10 Minutes
We have just released a video tutorial that will guide you through the integration of the Recombee recommendation service to your…
Jan 11, 2017
Evaluating Recommender Systems: Choosing the Best One for Your Business
Together with the endless expansion of E-commerce and online media in the last years, there are more and more Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)…
Dec 18, 2016
The Value of Personalized Recommendations for Your Business
The e-commerce boom makes online environment more competitive. Internet retailers seek competitive advantages and a personalized experience…
Aug 23, 2016
Recommender Systems Explained
In this article, I overview broad area of recommender systems, explain how individual algorithms work.
Jul 12, 2016
Generating Client Libraries for Recombee Recommendation API
Client libraries help programmers to integrate an API into their systems in a faster, easier and more readable way. We have recently published clients for Ruby and PHP, and we wish to provide clients for other major programming…
May 17, 2016
Personalized Recommendations in Ruby
For those of you, who develop in Ruby, we prepared a simple client application enabling you to benefit from our personalized recommendations.
May 16, 2016
Artificial Intelligence in the Cloud
At Recombee, we “think big”, and prefer making big leaps in technology over taking small steps. Our team has been involved in data science and artificial intelligence research for many years. Beginning in 2012, we began to capitalize our knowledge and experience, developing products which…
Mar 30, 2016
