Yandex's Sona model replaces full recsys pipeline, +4.5% active users in A/B
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-02
Yandex introduced Sona, billed as the first publicly documented model to replace a full recommendation pipeline without hand-engineered features while showing live A/B gains: +4.5% active users and +6.3% listening time in Yandex Music.
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