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by pcovington 3573 days ago
YouTube has used machine learning in recommendations for many years.

We have struggled with interpretability, both while debugging mistakes made by the system and exposing plausible "reasons" to users.

There was a fascinating discussion [1] about interpretability during a deep learning panel at KDD this year.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=furfdqtdAvc#t=54m25s