Machine Learning
‘Tis the Season: Fun with (Decision) Trees
Marina Gandlin | 18 Dec 2019 | Data Science
At Taboola, we work daily on improving our Deep-Learning-based content-recommendation model. We use it to suggest personalized news Read More...
Performing Exploration, Robin-Hood Style
Shaked Zychlinski | 11 Nov 2019 | Machine Learning
Our core business at Taboola is to provide the surfers-of-the-web with personalized content recommendations wherever they might surf. Read More...
Exploiting Multi-Categorical Features Using Deep Interest
Marina Gandlin | 04 Sep 2019 | Data Science
At Taboola, our goal is to predict whether users will click on the ads we present to them. Read More...
ICLR 19 highlights (and all that Jazz)
Inbar Naor | 16 May 2019 | Data Science
A joint post with Ofri Mann We went to ICLR to present our work on debugging ML Read More...
Preparing for the Unexpected
Yoel Zeldes | 27 Jan 2019 | Machine Learning
Some of the problems we tackle using machine learning involve categorical features that represent real world objects, such Read More...
Think your Data Different
Zohar Komarovsky and Yoel Zeldes | 21 Jan 2019 | Machine Learning
In the last couple of years deep learning (DL) has become a main enabler for applications in many Read More...
Deep Multi-Task Learning – 3 Lessons Learned
Zohar Komarovsky | 06 Jan 2019 | Data Science
For the past year, my team and I have been working on a personalized user experience in the Read More...
The Story of a Bad Train-Test Split
Yoel Zeldes | 16 Dec 2018 | Data Science
About a year ago we incorporated a new type of feature into one of our models used for Read More...
Predicting Probability Distributions Using Neural Networks
Shaked Zychlinski | 13 Nov 2018 | Data Science
If you’ve been following our tech blog lately, you might have noticed we’re using a special type of Read More...
How to Engineer Your Way Out of Slow Models
Yoel Zeldes | 28 Oct 2018 | Data Science
So you just finished designing that great neural network architecture of yours. It has a blazing number of Read More...
Zooming Past the Competition
Yoel Zeldes and Amir Keren | 10 Oct 2018 | Data Science
Imagine you’re walking down the street and you see a nice car you’re thinking of buying. Just by Read More...
Title to Image Search for Improved Thumbnail Selection
Gil Levi | 18 Sep 2018 | Data Science
Introduction One of the key creative aspects of an advertisement is choosing the image that will appear alongside Read More...
Uncertainty for CTR Prediction: One Model to Clarify Them All
Yoel Zeldes and Inbar Naor | 21 Aug 2018 | Data Science
In the first post of the series we discussed three types of uncertainty that can affect your model Read More...
Recommender Systems: Exploring the Unknown Using Uncertainty
Yoel Zeldes and Inbar Naor | 14 Aug 2018 | Data Science
Now that we know what uncertainty types exist and learned some ways to model them, we can start Read More...
Neural Networks from a Bayesian Perspective
Yoel Zeldes and Inbar Naor | 06 Aug 2018 | Data Science
Understanding what a model doesn’t know is important both from the practitioner’s perspective and for the end users Read More...
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