Pinterest Optimizes Long-Term Retention with Proxy Rewards

_reachsumit · x · 2026-07-17

Pinterest released a model-agnostic downstream reward learning framework that uses proxy signals to optimize long-term user retention across multiple ranking surfaces.

Instead of focusing on short-term clicks, this approach integrates multi-scenario behavioral signals into reward modeling to serve longer-term user engagement goals.

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