Bracha Shapira

Deep learning methods became widely popular in the recommender systems community in 2016, in part thanks to the previous event of the DLRS workshop series. Now, deep learning has been embedded in the main conference as well and initial research directions have started forming, so the role of DLRS 2017 is to encourage starting new research directions, incentivize the application of very recent techniques from deep learning, and provide a venue for specialized discussion of this topic.