From Clicks to Cues: Exploring user behaviour as a language in music video consumption

As music video streaming occupies a significant market share in how people consume music, gaining an understanding of user behavioural patterns becomes increasingly crucial. This understanding can enable better music video streaming experiences by tailoring them towards more personalized and user-centric designs. Though prior works have...

LoveBERT: Leveraging Language Models to Improve Matchmaking at Breeze

Online dating has become the most popular method of finding potential romantic partners. At the core of these platforms, there is a reciprocal recommender system which recommends users to other users on the platform. Breeze is an example of such a dating app, serving its users potential romantic partners every day in the hopes of sending them on...

Utilizing Lingual Structures to Enhance Transformer Performance in Source Code Completions

We explored the effect of augmenting a standard language model’s architecture (BERT) with a structural component based on the Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs) of the source code. We created a universal abstract syntax tree structure that can be applied to multiple languages to enable the model to work in a multilingual setting. We adapted the...