What We Learned from Using LLMs in Pinterest — Mukuntha Narayanan, Han Wang, Pinterest
This talk details Pinterest's experience integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into their search relevance system. The core thesis is that LLMs significantly improve relevance prediction, and that techniques like knowledge distillation are crucial for productionizing these models at scale. The presentation also highlights the value of synthetic captions and user engagement data as content annotations.
World's Fair 2025 18 min