Taste is a major determinant of children's food preferences, but its development is incompletely known. Thus, exploring infants' acceptance of basic tastes is necessary. The first objective was to evaluate the acceptance of tastes and their developmental changes over the first year. The second objective was to compare acceptance across tastes. The third objective was to evaluate global taste re...

Most existing recommendation approaches implicitly treat user tastes as unimodal, resulting in an average-of-tastes representations when multiple distinct interests are present. We show that appropriately modelling the multi-faceted nature of user tastes through a mixture-of-tastes model leads to large increases in recommendation quality. Our result holds both for deep sequence-based and tradit...

The success of a music recommender system depends on its ability to predict how much a particular user will like or dislike each item in its catalogue. However, such predictions are difficult to make accurately due to the complex nature of music tastes. In this paper, we review the literature on music tastes from social psychology and sociology of music to identify the correlates of music taste...