There’s a more technical recent paper from bytedance as well: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.07203.pdf
And another recent one on bytedance user profile system, this paper gives the deepest understanding of their recommendation system: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring21/cos598...
There’s a good breakdown of the recent nytimes article on TikTok’s internals here: https://read.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-122/
If anyone has found anything better let me know.
If you try searching yourself you will want to try switching between the keywords “douyin” “toutiao” “bytedance” and “tiktok.”
https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/9/18/seeing-like-an-algo...
https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-now-why-we-focu...