Yandex's SONA replaces Yandex Music's recommendation cascade with 1 generative model: +4.53% Active Users
Yandex published a technical report on SONA, a single model that does both candidate generation and ranking for Yandex Music. Replaced 15+ candidate generators plus pre-ranking and ranking in a live A/B test (7 days, 15% of users per split) +4.53% Active Users, +6.30% Total Listening Time, +11.42%…
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- 2026-10-05 08:23 · r/machinelearningnews
Yandex's SONA replaces Yandex Music's recommendation cascade with 1 generative model: +4.53% Active Users