Bootstrapping Conversational Recommendation Agents at Spotify: Synthetic Data Generation and Self-Improvement Loops

Imagine asking Spotify to “play some fresh indie soul I might like” and then, mid-session, saying “I love this song, tell me more about this artist.” Conversational recommendation agents make interactions like this possible: users can express what they want in natural language, then follow up, refine, or change their requests as the conversation unfolds.

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