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Blake Shepard
dblp:97/3528
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2ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0003-8376-753XORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 first-author
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Information retrieval · 56% Recommender systems · 44% | |
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Network security · 100% |
Topics — the 7 heaviest of 8, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Recommender systems › large-scale recommendation › multi-stage recommender systems
candidate generation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Towards Web-scale Recommendations with LLMs: From Quality-aware Ranking to Candidate Generation · KDD (1) 2025 |
Recommender systems
large-scale recommendation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Towards Web-scale Recommendations with LLMs: From Quality-aware Ranking to Candidate Generation · KDD (1) 2025 |
Information retrieval › ranking › multi-objective ranking
quality-aware ranking |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Towards Web-scale Recommendations with LLMs: From Quality-aware Ranking to Candidate Generation · KDD (1) 2025 |
Information retrieval
ranking |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Towards Web-scale Recommendations with LLMs: From Quality-aware Ranking to Candidate Generation · KDD (1) 2025 |
Information retrieval
search engines |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Towards Web-scale Recommendations with LLMs: From Quality-aware Ranking to Candidate Generation · KDD (1) 2025 |
Information retrieval
web search |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Towards Web-scale Recommendations with LLMs: From Quality-aware Ranking to Candidate Generation · KDD (1) 2025 |
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Knowledge representation and reasoning
ontology |
0.0 | 1 | 2005 | A Knowledge-Based Approach to Network Security: Applying Cyc in the Domain of Network Risk Assessment · AAAI 2005 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
large language model · 0.9RecoDCG · 0.9ontology reasoning · 0.1knowledge base · 0.1
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Towards Web-scale Recommendations with LLMs: From Quality-aware Ranking to Candidate GenerationabstractExplore Further @ Bing is a webpage-to-webpage recommendation product, enhancing the search experience on Bing by surfacing engaging webpage recommendations tied to the search result URLs. In this paper, we present our approach for leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for enhancing our web-scale recommendation system. We describe the development and validation of our LLM-powered recommendation quality metric RecoDCG. We discuss our core techniques for utilizing LLMs to make our ranking stage quality-aware. Furthermore, we detail Q' recall, a recall path that enhances our system's candidate generation stage by leveraging LLMs to produce complementary and engaging recommendation candidates. We also address how we optimize our system for multiple objectives, balancing recommendation quality with click metrics. We deploy our work to production, achieving a significant improvement in recommendation quality. We share results from offline and online experiments as well as insights and steps we took to ensure our approaches scale effectively for our web-scale needs. Jaidev Shah, Iman Barjasteh, Amey Barapatre, Rana Forsati, Xue Deng, Blake Shepard, Ronak Shah, Linjun Yang |
KDD (1) | 9 |
| 2005 | A Knowledge-Based Approach to Network Security: Applying Cyc in the Domain of Network Risk Assessment
Blake Shepard, Cynthia Matuszek, C. Bruce Fraser, William Wechtenhiser, David Crabbe, Zelal Güngördü, John Jantos, Todd Hughes, Larry Lefkowitz, Michael Witbrock, Douglas B. Lenat, Erik Larson |
AAAI | 1 |