Andres Ferraro

Lead AI Research Scientist at Nowon AG / UCL-BBC Collaborator

Publications

• Full list of publications in Google Scholar

Selected publications

• Offline Retrieval Evaluation Without Evaluation Metrics Paper
• Break the Loop: Gender Imbalance in Music Recommenders Paper | Code
• Enriched Music Representations with Multiple Cross-modal Contrastive Learning Paper | Code | Demo
• Melon Playlist Dataset: a public dataset for audio-based playlist generation and music tagging Paper | Dataset | Code
• Exploring Longitudinal Effects of Session-based Recommendations Paper | Code
• Evaluation of cnn-based automatic music tagging models Paper | Code
• Maximizing the engagement: exploring new signals of implicit feedback in music recommendations Paper | Code

Media Coverage & Impact

• Not OK, computer: music streaming's diversity problem - Financial Times
• Music recommendation algorithms increase gender gap by promoting fewer female artists, study suggests - The Independent
• Streaming music algorithm more likely to play male artists - New York Post
• Spotify's sexist algorithm prefers to recommend male musicians - The Times
• Music recommendation algorithms are unfair to female artists, but we can change that - The Conversation
• Le raccomandazioni algoritmiche delle piattaforme musicali penalizzano le donne - Ti spiego il dato (Italian)
• A study finds gender bias in music recommendation algorithms - UPF news
• Capitol 19 - Fet a Mida (Spanish)
• Trencar el bucle: desequilibri de gènere en els algoritmes de recomanació musicals - Onda Cero (Spanish)
• Gender gap in the music industry - Primavera Sound - Countdown by Lotus (Spanish)
• Full list of media coverage (27+ articles)