WSDM - KKBox's Music Recommendation Challenge

Can you build the best music recommendation system?

Objective :

Build a better music recommendation system by predicting the chances of a user listening to a song repetitively after the first observable listening event within a time window was triggered.

Dataset :

The dataset is from KKBOX, Asia’s leading music streaming service, holding the world’s most comprehensive Asia-Pop music library. KKBOX provides a training data set consists of information of the first observable listening event for each unique user-song pair within a specific time duration. Metadata of each unique user and song pair is also provided.

Core Model applied :

Lightgbm - A fast, distributed, high performance gradient boosting (GBDT, GBRT, GBM or MART) framework based on decision tree algorithms, used for ranking, classification and many other machine learning tasks.