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Building Pinterest Canvas, a text-to-image foundation model

In this engineering note, we wanted to share some of our latest progress on Pinterest Canvas, a text-to-image foundation model for enhancing existing images and products on the platform.

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Ray Infrastructure at Pinterest

In this blogpost, we will go one step further to describe what it takes to integrate Ray into a web-scale company like Pinterest, where we have various unique constraints and challenges to embrace new technologies.

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Training Foundation Improvements for Closeup Recommendation Ranker

Pinterest’s mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. The closeup team helps with this mission by providing a feed of relevant and context-and-user-aware recommendations when a Pinner closes up on any Pin.

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Building for Inclusivity: The Technical Blueprint of Pinterest’s Multidimensional Diversification

Pinterest’s mission as a company is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. “Everyone” has been the north star for our Inclusive AI and Inclusive Product teams.

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Representation online matters: practical end-to-end diversification in search and recommender systems

Pinterest is a platform designed to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. This is not only our company’s core mission but something that has become increasingly important in today’s interconnected world.

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Scaling Pinterest's ad corpus by 60x

In May 2020, Pinterest launched a partnership with Shopify that allowed merchants to easily upload their catalogs to the Pinterest platform and create Product Pins and shopping ads...

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Delivering relevant ads to Pinners

Pinterest is where people go to plan and shop, making ideas and ads from brands helpful in taking Pinners from inspiration to action. It’s our goal to ensure ads continue to be additive and not intrusive on Pinterest...

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Advertiser recommendation systems

The Ads Intelligence team at Pinterest is charged with building and maintaining machine learning and algorithm-driven recommendations and the Recommendations Ranker to provide advertisers with the best experience in reaching relevant Pinners and help them reach their campaign goals...

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Trusting metrics at Pinterest

Pinterest, like many tech companies, relies heavily on data to help inform decisions and power machine learning. This strategy fundamentally depends on the data being accurate...

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How Pinterest fights spam

Hundreds of millions of people visit Pinterest each month to discover ideas among billions of Pins. Inspiration is a high bar and so we must be vigilant in ensuring Pinners don’t see spam, harmful content, or misinformation...

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Multi-task learning for products recommendations

People have always come to Pinterest for shopping inspiration, and we’ve made big strides over the years to make that as seamless as possible...

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Adventures in big data wonderland: Going down the Pinterest Path

Have you ever started looking for plants on Pinterest, only to end up shopping for pillows instead? Ever find yourself layers of Pins deep into finding a new idea, not sure of how you got there or where you started...

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