Modeling Musical Genre Trajectories through Pathlet Learning
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| author | Marey, Lilian Laclau, Charlotte Sguerra, Bruno Viard, Tiphaine Moussallam, Manuel |
| author_facet | Marey, Lilian Laclau, Charlotte Sguerra, Bruno Viard, Tiphaine Moussallam, Manuel |
| contents | The increasing availability of user data on music streaming platforms opens up new possibilities for analyzing music consumption. However, understanding the evolution of user preferences remains a complex challenge, particularly as their musical tastes change over time. This paper uses the dictionary learning paradigm to model user trajectories across different musical genres. We define a new framework that captures recurring patterns in genre trajectories, called pathlets, enabling the creation of comprehensible trajectory embeddings. We show that pathlet learning reveals relevant listening patterns that can be analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively. This work improves our understanding of users' interactions with music and opens up avenues of research into user behavior and fostering diversity in recommender systems. A dataset of 2000 user histories tagged by genre over 17 months, supplied by Deezer (a leading music streaming company), is also released with the code. |
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| spellingShingle | Modeling Musical Genre Trajectories through Pathlet Learning Marey, Lilian Laclau, Charlotte Sguerra, Bruno Viard, Tiphaine Moussallam, Manuel Information Retrieval Machine Learning Multimedia The increasing availability of user data on music streaming platforms opens up new possibilities for analyzing music consumption. However, understanding the evolution of user preferences remains a complex challenge, particularly as their musical tastes change over time. This paper uses the dictionary learning paradigm to model user trajectories across different musical genres. We define a new framework that captures recurring patterns in genre trajectories, called pathlets, enabling the creation of comprehensible trajectory embeddings. We show that pathlet learning reveals relevant listening patterns that can be analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively. This work improves our understanding of users' interactions with music and opens up avenues of research into user behavior and fostering diversity in recommender systems. A dataset of 2000 user histories tagged by genre over 17 months, supplied by Deezer (a leading music streaming company), is also released with the code. |
| title | Modeling Musical Genre Trajectories through Pathlet Learning |
| topic | Information Retrieval Machine Learning Multimedia |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03480 |