Research at Yandex

We invite software engineers, designers, analysts, service or product managers — beginners, advanced specialists, and researchers — to join us at SIGIR 2019, which will take place in Paris from 21 to 25 of July, to attend our tutorial on "Effective Online Evaluation for Web Search"

Yandex.Toloka, our public crowdsourcing platform, has published five open datasets in order to support research in the areas of dialogue systems, crowdsourcing, and NLP.

On December, 6, on NeurIPS conference in Montreal, Yandex team presented the paper “CatBoost: unbiased boosting with categorical features”. This work introduces and studies two key algorithmic techniques of CatBoost, an open-source machine learning library developed by Yandex and used in its numerous services.