ATLAS: Learning to Recommend Across Unseen Domains
What if a recommender trained only on movies and music could walk into a catalogue it has never seen, groceries or video games, and still know what to suggest?
Causal inference, counterfactual reasoning, and the question of why.
What if a recommender trained only on movies and music could walk into a catalogue it has never seen, groceries or video games, and still know what to suggest?
If an algorithm hands you a map of cause and effect, should it not also be able to justify every single arrow it drew?
What if a recommender never judged you in a single glance, but kept revisiting its impression of you, refining it pass after pass, anchored to what you actually did?
Can a new kind of neural network teach us to predict exactly how any one person would respond to a treatment before it is ever given?
What if a photograph itself is the treatment and we could measure exactly how much it changed your decision?
What if a recommendation system could understand not what you clicked but why you wanted it in the first place?
What if a compact model could write plots that move you, not by knowing more, but by first learning the difference between a story that grips and one that falls flat?
Does understanding the network effect between humans help us analyse cause and effect across multiple real-world scenarios?