Yandex releases world’s largest event dataset for advancing recommender systems
India, June 2, 2025: Yandex has published Yambda (Yandex Music Billion-Interactions Dataset), the world’s largest currently available open dataset for recommender systems, containing nearly 5 billion anonymized user interactions with audio tracks from its music streaming platform, Yandex Music.Yambda serves as a universal benchmark for testing new approaches and algorithms across all domains utilizing recommender systems — e-commerce, social networks, and short-form video platforms.The dataset enables researchers to develop and test new recommender algorithms against its baseline models, accelerating innovation. Startups with limited data can leverage the dataset to build and test systems using Yambda before scaling. This accelerates the creation of advanced technologies tailored to busine...










