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Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Dipanwita Saha , Anis Zaman , Hua Zou , Ning Chen , Xinxin Shu , Nadia Vase , Abraham Bagherjeiran

The prediction of click-through rate (CTR) is crucial for industrial applications, such as online advertising. AUC is a commonly used evaluation indicator for CTR models. For advertising platforms, online performance is generally evaluated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Zhaocheng Liu , Guangxue Yin

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial issue in recommendation systems. There has been an emergence of various public CTR datasets. However, existing datasets primarily suffer from the following limitations. Firstly, users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Zhaoxin Huan , Ke Ding , Ang Li , Xiaolu Zhang , Xu Min , Yong He , Liang Zhang , Jun Zhou , Linjian Mo , Jinjie Gu , Zhongyi Liu , Wenliang Zhong , Guannan Zhang

As a prevalent problem in online advertising, CTR prediction has attracted plentiful attention from both academia and industry. Recent studies have been reported to establish CTR prediction models in the graph neural networks (GNNs)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Panyu Zhai , Yanwu Yang , Chunjie Zhang

Deep Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction models play an important role in modern industrial recommendation scenarios. However, high memory overhead and computational costs limit their deployment in resource-constrained environments.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Hao Yu , Minghao Fu , Jiandong Ding , Yusheng Zhou , Jianxin Wu

Sponsored search adopts generalized second price (GSP) auction mechanism which works on the concept of pay per click which is most commonly used for the allocation of slots in the searched page. Two main aspects associated with GSP are the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-03-26 Rahul Gupta , Gitansh Khirbat , Sanjay Singh

Diverse and enriched data sources are essential for commercial ads-recommendation models to accurately assess user interest both before and after engagement with content. While extended user-engagement histories can improve the prediction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Sohini Roychowdhury , Doris Wang , Qian Ge , Joy Mu , Srihari Reddy

The predictions of click through rate (CTR) and conversion rate (CVR) play a crucial role in the success of ad-recommendation systems. A Deep Hierarchical Ensemble Network (DHEN) has been proposed to integrate multiple feature crossing…

Recent advances in foundation models have established scaling laws that enable the development of larger models to achieve enhanced performance, motivating extensive research into large-scale recommendation models. However, simply…

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays a pivotal role in online advertising and recommender systems. Despite notable progress in modeling user preferences from historical behaviors, two key challenges persist. First, exsiting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Kesha Ou , Zhen Tian , Wayne Xin Zhao , Hongyu Lu , Ji-Rong Wen

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is crucial for personalized online services. Sample-level retrieval-based models, such as RIM, have demonstrated remarkable performance. However, they face challenges including inference inefficiency and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Huanshuo Liu , Bo Chen , Menghui Zhu , Jianghao Lin , Jiarui Qin , Yang Yang , Hao Zhang , Ruiming Tang

Many Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction works focused on designing advanced architectures to model complex feature interactions but neglected the importance of feature representation learning, e.g., adopting a plain embedding layer for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Fangye Wang , Yingxu Wang , Dongsheng Li , Hansu Gu , Tun Lu , Peng Zhang , Ning Gu

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is one of the most important and challenging in calculating advertisements and recommendation systems. To build a machine learning system with these data, it is important to properly model the interaction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Dafang Zou , Leiming Zhang , Jiafa Mao , Weiguo Sheng

Most of the existing methods for debaising in click-through rate (CTR) prediction depend on an oversimplified assumption, i.e., the click probability is the product of observation probability and relevance probability. However, since there…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Wenjie Chu , Shen Li , Chao Chen , Longfei Xu , Hengbin Cui , Kaikui Liu

With the rise of large language models (LLMs), recent works have leveraged LLMs to improve the performance of click-through rate (CTR) prediction. However, we argue that a critical obstacle remains in deploying LLMs for practical use: the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Binzong Geng , Zhaoxin Huan , Xiaolu Zhang , Yong He , Liang Zhang , Fajie Yuan , Jun Zhou , Linjian Mo

Conversion rate (CVR) prediction plays an important role in advertising systems. Recently, supervised deep neural network-based models have shown promising performance in CVR prediction. However, they are data hungry and require an enormous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Wentao Ouyang , Rui Dong , Xiuwu Zhang , Chaofeng Guo , Jinmei Luo , Xiangzheng Liu , Yanlong Du

In recent years, the success of large language models (LLMs) has driven the exploration of scaling laws in recommender systems. However, models that demonstrate scaling laws are actually challenging to deploy in industrial settings for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Weijiang Lai , Beihong Jin , Di Zhang , Siru Chen , Jiongyan Zhang , Yuhang Gou , Jian Dong , Xingxing Wang

On online advertising platforms, newly introduced promotional ads face the cold-start problem, as they lack sufficient user feedback for model training. In this work, we propose LLM-HYPER, a novel framework that treats large language models…

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is widely used in academia and industry. Most CTR tasks fall into a feature embedding \& feature interaction paradigm, where the accuracy of CTR prediction is mainly improved by designing practical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Fangye Wang , Hansu Gu , Dongsheng Li , Tun Lu , Peng Zhang , Li Shang , Ning Gu

Click-Through Rate prediction aims to predict the ratio of clicks to impressions of a specific link. This is a challenging task since (1) there are usually categorical features, and the inputs will be extremely high-dimensional if one-hot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Qiuqiang Lin , Chuanhou Gao