Evolution of Multi-Objective Optimization at Pinterest Home feed
Homefeed: Jiacong He, Dafang He, Jie Cheng (former), Andreanne Lemay, Mostafa Keikha, Rahul Goutam, Dhruvil Deven Badani, Dylan WangContent Quality: Jianing Sun, Qinglong ZengIntroductionIn feed recommendation, we recommend a list of items for the user to consume. It’s typically handled separately f...
Synchronizing the Senses: Powering Multimodal Intelligence for Video SearchBy: Meenakshi Jindal and Munya MarazanyeToday’s filmmakers capture more footage than ever to maximize their creative options, often generating hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of raw material per season or franchise. Extr...
Drastically Reducing Out-of-Memory Errors in Apache Spark at Pinterest
Felix Loesing | Software EngineerIn 2025, we set out to drastically reduce out-of-memory errors (OOMs) and cut resource usage in our Spark applications by automatically identifying tasks with higher memory demands and retrying them on larger executors with a feature we call Auto Memory Retries.Spark...