Tokens In, Engagement Out: Training LLM-Recommenders
Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 10:45am-11:05am
- Track/room: LLM Recsys · Track 7
- Speaker(s): Devansh Tandon
- Session type/status: session · confirmed
- Track: LLM Recsys
- Room: Track 7
- Session type: session
- Status: confirmed
Session Description
No official description published in the schedule data.
Media Evidence
Teaching Gemini to Speak YouTube: Adapting LLMs for Video Recommendations to 2B+DAU - Devansh Tandon (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).
- Source video:
youtube-LxQsQ3vZDqo - Slide deck: Dense Slides: Teaching Gemini to Speak YouTube: Adapting LLMs for Video Recommendations to 2B+DAU - Devansh Tandon — 5 visible slide image(s); 5 HTML recreation(s).
- Additional slide evidence: Slides: Teaching Gemini to Speak YouTube: Adapting LLMs for Video Recommendations to 2B+DAU - Devansh Tandon, Reconstructed Slides: Teaching Gemini to Speak YouTube: Adapting LLMs for Video Recommendations to 2B+DAU - Devansh Tandon
- Slide-derived themes for
youtube-LxQsQ3vZDqo: youtube, home, shorts, search, ranking, experiments, base, gemini.
Evidence Graph
This evidence graph is generated from currently linked source material: official schedule text, related video pages, cached transcripts, visible slide text, dense/reconstructed slide pages, and AI slide-classification audits.
Media Signals
youtube-LxQsQ3vZDqo— 3 slide-derived text signals- Slide-derived themes for
youtube-LxQsQ3vZDqo: youtube, home, shorts, search, ranking, experiments, base, gemini. - Evidence links for
youtube-LxQsQ3vZDqo: youtube LxQsQ3vZDqo, youtube LxQsQ3vZDqo slides, youtube LxQsQ3vZDqo dense slides, youtube LxQsQ3vZDqo reconstructed slides
Agent Reading Notes
Use these signals to refine the synopsis, topic links, people/company context, and method notes. If a source is a related external video rather than an exact official recording, keep it framed as supporting evidence.
Transcript Status
Related video transcript availability: English auto-captions. Treat this as supporting context, not a recording of this exact scheduled session unless later confirmed. Not fetched yet.
People
Supporting Slides
- youtube LxQsQ3vZDqo slides — extracted from the related public AI Engineer video.
Slide Evidence
- Slide-only cropped deck: youtube LxQsQ3vZDqo dense slides (5 viable slide images).
- Related slide/OCR pages:
- youtube LxQsQ3vZDqo dense slides
- youtube LxQsQ3vZDqo reconstructed slides
- youtube LxQsQ3vZDqo slides
- Slide-derived terms:
watchnext,microsoft,recs,gemini,youtube,home,search,personalized,recommendation,peers,user,tasks,finds,races,women,graphite,windsurf,monegobb
Synthesis
Synthesized Breakdown
Tokens In, Engagement Out: Training LLM-Recommenders ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 10:45am-11:05am - Track/room: LLM Recsys · Track 7 - Speaker(s): Devansh Tandon - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: LLM Recsys - Room: Track 7 - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description No official description published in the schedule data. ## Media Evidence Teaching Gemini to Speak YouTube: Adapting LLMs for Video Recommendations to 2B+DAU - Devansh Tandon (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions). - Source video: youtube-LxQsQ3vZDqo - Slide deck: Dense Slides: Teaching Gemini to Speak YouTube: Adapting LLMs for Video Recommendations to 2B+DAU - Devansh Tandon — 5 visible slide image(s); 5 HTML recreation(s). - Additional slide evidence: Slides: Teaching Gemini to Speak YouTube: Adapting LLMs for Video Recommendations to 2B+DAU - Devansh Tandon, Reconstructed Slides: Teaching Gemini to Speak YouTube: Adapting LLMs for Video Recommendations to 2B+DAU - Devansh Tandon - Slide-derived themes for youtube-LxQsQ3vZDqo: youtube, home, shorts, search, ranking, experiments, base, gemini.
Speaker And Company Context
- Devansh Tandon — Principal Product Manager at Meta.
Topics Covered
Derived Links And Source Material
- youtube LxQsQ3vZDqo — related YouTube source page.
- youtube LxQsQ3vZDqo slides — slide evidence.
- youtube LxQsQ3vZDqo reconstructed slides — slide evidence.
- youtube LxQsQ3vZDqo dense slides — slide evidence.
Novel Concepts / Clever Methods
- No highlighted novel concept has been detected yet.
Evidence Boundary
This synthesis is based on the official schedule and linked source pages. It should be revisited when exact session recordings or transcript-backed secondary sources are available.