Playlist Title Coherence Assessment via Byte-Level Perplexity

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing content streaming services face challenges in determining the coherence and quality of playlist titles across multiple languages, which affects their ability to recommend user-generated playlists effectively.

Innovation Solution

A method using a hardware processor to generate byte-level representations of playlist titles, determine embedded representations, and calculate perplexity scores through a trained language model, allowing for the assessment of title coherence and quality.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a recommendation system uses traditional methods to evaluate playlist titles, then it can process titles in a single language, but it fails to accurately determine coherence and quality across multiple languages

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemulti-language capabilityVSAvoidcoherence determination accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes the parameter of language representation by using byte-level encoding instead of character-level or word-level processing. This allows the language model to handle any language uniformly by treating all text as sequences of bytes, thereby achieving both multi-language versatility and coherent quality assessment through perplexity scoring

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary language model trained on multilingual data that acts as a mediator between the playlist title and the coherence assessment. This intermediary translates different languages into a unified representation space, enabling accurate coherence determination across multiple languages without requiring language-specific processing rules

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If the system processes playlist titles at the character level, then it can handle text in various languages, but it loses byte-level precision needed for accurate coherence measurement

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecoherence measurement accuracyVSAvoidmulti-language support
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes the fundamental parameter of text processing from character-level to byte-level representation. This parameter change enables precise coherence measurement through perplexity scoring while maintaining multi-language support, as the byte-level representation is language-agnostic and can accurately capture the statistical properties of any language's text sequences

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If the recommendation system evaluates all playlist titles with high precision methods, then it achieves accurate coherence determination, but it increases computational complexity and processing time

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetitle quality assessment accuracyVSAvoidprocessing system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by pre-training the language model on extensive multilingual data before deployment. This pre-training establishes the statistical foundations needed for accurate coherence assessment, allowing the system to evaluate new playlist titles efficiently using the pre-learned language patterns without requiring complex real-time analysis

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The language model performs self-service by automatically adjusting its perplexity calculations based on the specific characteristics of each playlist title and language combination. The model serves itself by leveraging its pre-trained knowledge to adapt to different languages and contexts without requiring external calibration or manual tuning for each case

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12210567B2Methods, systems, and media for determining playlist title coherence and quality
Publication Date: 2025.01.28 GOOGLE LLC
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AI summary

Methods, systems, and media for determining playlist title coherence and quality are provided. In some embodiments, a method for generating playlist recommendations includes: determining, using a hardware processor, a title of a playlist; generating, using the hardware processor, a byte-level representation of the title based on the title of the playlist; determining, using the hardware processor, an embedded representation of the title based on the byte-level representation; determining, using the hardware processor, a perplexity score of the title by inputting the embedded representation of the title into a trained language model, wherein the perplexity score is an output of the trained language model; and causing, using the hardware processor, a recommendation based on the perplexity score of the title to be presented.