How Facebook uses deep learning models to engage users
SearchBusinessAnalytics | June 05, 2017
In a presentation at the Deep Learning Summit in Boston, Tulloch said traditional predictive analytics techniques like logistic regressions used to be the state of the art at Menlo Park, Calif.-based Facebook. In particular, this sort of analytics powered the ranked news feed, in which users are shown posts they're likely to find interesting, as determined by an algorithm.