AI engineering glossary · Time series recsys

What is Wide and Deep?

Wide and Deep (also called Wide & Deep): A recommendation architecture from Google that jointly trains a wide linear model, which memorises specific feature combinations, and a deep neural network, which generalises to unseen ones. Their outputs are added before the final prediction.

Level: advancedTopic: Time series recsys

Wide and Deep: an example

Memorise 'installed app A then impressions of app B', while the deep part generalises to similar apps.

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Wide and Deep is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.

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