The four layers of a personalized home screen, the relevance-vs-diversity (calibration) balance, position bias, artwork and contextual bandits, the editorial-vs-algorithmic split, and the metrics to track — on a single sheet.
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The handbook · 7 volumes
Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook
This sheet lays out the four layers of a personalized home screen, calibration, position bias, artwork testing and the metrics that show whether merchandising works. Our seven-volume handbook covers the whole video stack; Volume 6 is the starting point for the AI feature lifecycle and model choices, with Volume 3 on QoE monitoring and Volume 7 on serving and cost. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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