Music Recommendation with Natural-Language Profiles @ MURS 2025
Large Language Models (LLM) open up many opportunities for how humans interact with recommender systems. In particular, I’m interested in[…]
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Where did all the small music venues go?
When I was in high school, I went to a ton of shows at small music venues in and around[…]
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Summer 2025 Plans for Localify
Our goal for localify last summer was to launch a professional grade version of Localify. This included developing: For the[…]
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Why Spotify Should Care About Local Music in the Coming Age of Generative Music
Summary: With the rise of generative music, some listeners will increasingly value “authentic” music experiences with human artists who perform[…]
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Contextualizing Local Music @ ISMIR24
Our goal at Localify.org is to help people discover local artists within their communities. However, it is difficult to design[…]
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Three Forms of Popularity Bias
In our research on long-tail music recommendation, we have come across three distinct forms of popularity bias: In this post,[…]
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ChatGPT on Local Music Recommendation
I asked ChatGPT to “Write a short academic paper about local music recommendation.” Here is what it put out: Local[…]
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Measuring the Strength of Music Scenes @ ISMIR 2022
Almost all of my research has focused on technical topics such as digital signal processing, machine learning, and recommendation algorithms.[…]
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Not Finding Popularity Bias in Recommendations from Music Streaming Services @ ISMIR 2022
One of the emerging topics in machine learning research is “fairness” and “bias” in recommendation algorithms. For example, when a[…]
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Launching Porchfest.live
(tl;dr – Porchfest.live – your guide to an afternoon of local music.) A Porchfest is a music event where local[…]
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