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      <title>Presentation: Foundation Models for Ranking: Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned</title>
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      <description>&lt;img src="https://res.infoq.com/presentations/foundation-models-ranking/en/mediumimage/moumita-bhattacharya-medium-1768986504738.jpg"/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moumita Bhattacharya discusses the evolution of Netflix’s ranking systems, from the multi-model architecture to a Unified Contextual Recommender (UniCoRn). She explains how they built a task-agnostic User Foundation Model to capture long-term member preferences. Learn how they solve system challenges like high-throughput inference and the tradeoff between relevance and personalization.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;i&gt;By Moumita Bhattacharya&lt;/i&gt;</description>
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      <category>Artificial Intelligence</category>
      <category>QCon London 2025</category>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Moumita Bhattacharya</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2026-01-28T17:03:00Z</dc:date>
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