Rasa is a foundation embedding for art — a single learned representation that fuses image content, curatorial metadata, artist biography, collector behaviour, and market price into one continuous space. The embedding is the asset. Recommendation, search, valuation, and attribution are all downstream affordances of the same model.
The architectural commitment that distinguishes this from a conventional recommender: the embedding is attribution-grade. Every recommendation is traceable to the training data that shaped it, and every contributor — artist, gallery, data partner — receives credit proportional to their measurable contribution to the system's value.
Zachary F. Mainen
Champalimaud Foundation
Andrew Wolff
Beowolff Capital
Kyo Iigaya
Columbia University
Daniel McNamee
Champalimaud Foundation
The program explained for the art world. 13 chapters, no equations, real examples. Each links to the Reader for technical depth.
Open Guide →Full technical deep dive. Same 13 chapters at tutorial depth — loss functions, architecture decisions, worked examples.
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