The Question
ML Design
Short-Form Video Recommendation System
Design a high-scale, real-time recommendation engine for a short-form video platform. The system must handle a corpus of over a billion items, provide sub-200ms latency for a 'For You' feed, and optimize for multiple engagement metrics including watch time and social interactions while effectively managing content cold-start and real-time user interest shifts.
ANN
FAISS
MMoE
Two-Tower
DCNv2
Kafka
Flink
Spark
MTL
MAB
March 16, 2026