Netflix ML Question - Design a System to Predict Netflix Watch Times (Full mock interview)
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 Published On Dec 11, 2023

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This interview delves into the use of machine learning in predicting Netflix watch time. Our guest covers a wide range of topics, including data utilization, feature engineering, supervised and unsupervised approaches, and similarity metrics. They also discuss the potential for combining these approaches to create a versatile recommendation system. Additionally, the interview explores challenges related to model deployment, temporal effects, and considerations for retraining. This conversation shows the complexities of machine learning for watch time prediction.

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00:00 - Intro
00:29 - Design goal Netflix watch time prediction
01:36 - Access to user data demographic, movie, show features
04:47 - Training model for watch time prediction
09:42 - Sparse matrix, similarity search, metrics
13:12 - Pearson correlation for watch time prediction
15:02 - Unsupervised methods offer advantages over supervised
18:24 - Linear model embeddings simplify learning
19:03 - Deployment issues and model integration
23:16 - Matrices for similarity over latent factor models
24:17 - Issues with supervised hot feature vectors
25:22 - Supervised feature-based prediction using embedding space
27:43 - Outro

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