Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Mohsen Jamali

Qin Iris Wang

Siyuan Zhang

Dan Shacham

Onkar Anant Dalal

Shahriar Shariat Talkhoonche

Hamed Firooz

Mohammad Ali Abbasi

A system and method for inferring appropriate courses for recommendation based on member characteristics is disclosed. A social networking system receives a request for recommended courses, wherein the request is associated with a member of the social networking system. The social networking system identifies a group of members who are similar to the first member. The social networking system creates a list of recently learned skills by members of the group of members similar to the member. For a particular skill in the list of skills, the social networking system determines whether the member possesses the particular skill. In accordance with a determination that the member does not possess the particular skill, the social networking system identifies at least one course that teaches the particular skill from a list of courses. The social networking system transmits the identified course to the client device for display as a recommended course.

Inferring appropriate courses for recommendation based on member characteristics

Techniques for modifying training data for video response quality optimization are provided. In one technique, training data is identified that is generated based on video presentation data that indicates multiple video items were presented to multiple entities. The training data comprises multiple training instances, each indicating a presentation of at least a portion of a video item to an entity. For each training instance in a subset of the training instances, a quality metric of the presentation of the video item indicated in said each training instance is computed and that training instance is modified based on the quality metric. After modifying one or more of the training instances, the model is trained using one or more machine learning techniques. In response to a content request, the model is used to determine whether to transmit a particular video item over a network to a computing device of a particular entity.

Modifying training data for video response quality optimization

Techniques for inferring a specific skill associated with a job posting are described. In an example, disclosed is a system that selects, from a jobs database, a specific job posting from a plurality of job postings. Additionally, job applicants for the specific job posting can be determined using indicators in the profile data of members. Moreover, a set of skills associated with the job applicants can be obtained. Furthermore, a percentage of the job applicants having a specific skill from the set of skills can be determined using the profile data of the job applicants. Subsequently, a confidence score of the specific skill being associated with the specific job posting can be calculated based on the percentage of the job applicants having the specific skill. A user interface can display a presentation of the specific job posting to a first member when the confidence score transgresses a predetermined score.

Applicant skills inference for a job

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