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Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction plays an important role in many industrial applications, and recently a lot of attention is paid to the deep interest models which use attention mechanism to capture user interests from historical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Keke Zhao , Xing Zhao , Qi Cao , Linjian Mo

Sequential modelling entails making sense of sequential data, which naturally occurs in a wide array of domains. One example is systems that interact with users, log user actions and behaviour, and make recommendations of items of potential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Christian Hansen

Modeling user's historical feedback is essential for Click-Through Rate Prediction in personalized search and recommendation. Existing methods usually only model users' positive feedback information such as click sequences which neglects…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Zhifang Fan , Dan Ou , Yulong Gu , Bairan Fu , Xiang Li , Wentian Bao , Xin-Yu Dai , Xiaoyi Zeng , Tao Zhuang , Qingwen Liu

E-commerce search systems rely on modeling user behavior to estimate item relevance and user preference, which are typically assumed to be stable and independently learnable signals. However, in practice, user interactions are jointly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Haoqian Zhang , Ziyuan Yang , Yi Zhang

Users' clicks on Web search results are one of the key signals for evaluating and improving web search quality and have been widely used as part of current state-of-the-art Learning-To-Rank(LTR) models. With a large volume of search logs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Jianghong Zhou , Sayyed M. Zahiri , Simon Hughes , Khalifeh Al Jadda , Surya Kallumadi , Eugene Agichtein

Sequential recommendation models are crucial for next-item recommendations in online platforms, capturing complex patterns in user interactions. However, many focus on a single behavior, overlooking valuable implicit interactions like…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Shereen Elsayed , Ahmed Rashed , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Recommender systems are one of the most successful applications of data mining and machine learning technology in practice. Academic research in the field is historically often based on the matrix completion problem formulation, where for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Massimo Quadrana , Paolo Cremonesi , Dietmar Jannach

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction, estimating the probability of a user clicking on an item, is essential in industrial applications, such as online advertising. Many works focus on user behavior modeling to improve CTR prediction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Xuyang Hou , Zhe Wang , Qi Liu , Tan Qu , Jia Cheng , Jun Lei

Click through rate (CTR) prediction is very important for Native advertisement but also hard as there is no direct query intent. In this paper we propose a large-scale event embedding scheme to encode the each user browsing event by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Mehul Parsana , Krishna Poola , Yajun Wang , Zhiguang Wang

Traditional machine-learned ranking systems for web search are often trained to capture stationary relevance of documents to queries, which has limited ability to track non-stationary user intention in a timely manner. In recency search,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-03-22 Taesup Moon , Wei Chu , Lihong Li , Zhaohui Zheng , Yi Chang

Complex search tasks - such as those from the Search as Learning (SAL) domain - often result in users developing an information need composed of several aspects. However, current models of searcher behaviour assume that individuals have an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Arthur Câmara , David Maxwell , Claudia Hauff

Deep learning-based sequential recommender systems have recently attracted increasing attention from both academia and industry. Most of industrial Embedding-Based Retrieval (EBR) system for recommendation share the similar ideas with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Fuyu Lv , Mengxue Li , Tonglei Guo , Changlong Yu , Fei Sun , Taiwei Jin , Wilfred Ng

Click models are a central component of learning and evaluation in recommender systems, yet most existing models are designed for single ranked-list interfaces. In contrast, modern recommender platforms increasingly use complex interfaces…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Santiago de Leon-Martinez , Robert Moro , Maria Bielikova

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction tasks typically estimate the probability of a user clicking on a candidate item by modeling both user behavior sequence features and the item's contextual features, where the user behavior sequence is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yi Xu , Chaofan Fan , Moyu Zhang , Jinxin Hu , Jiahao Wang , Hao Zhang , Shizhun Wang , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is one of the core tasks in recommender systems. User behavior sequences, as one of the most effective features, can accurately reflect user preferences and significantly improve prediction accuracy.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xiaolong Chen , Haoyi Zhao , Xu Huang , Defu Lian

Most typical click models assume that the probability of a document to be examined by users only depends on position, such as PBM and UBM. It works well in various kinds of search engines. However, in a search engine where massive candidate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Ningxin Xu , Cheng Yang , Yixin Zhu , Xiaowei Hu , Changhu Wang

Most successful search queries do not result in a click if the user can satisfy their information needs directly on the SERP. Modeling query abandonment in the absence of click-through data is challenging because search engines must rely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Lukas Brückner , Ioannis Arapakis , Luis A. Leiva

Online stores and service providers rely heavily on recommendation softwares to guide users through the vast amount of available products. Consequently, the field of recommender systems has attracted increased attention from the industry…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Abdullah Alhadlaq , Said Kerrache , Hatim Aboalsamh

Modern search engine result pages often provide immediate value to users and organize information in such a way that it is easy to navigate. The core ranking function contributes to this and so do result snippets, smart organization of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-09-05 Aleksandr Chuklin , Maarten de Rijke

In real-world complex networks, understanding the dynamics of their evolution has been of great interest to the scientific community. Predicting future links is an essential task of social network analysis as the addition or removal of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Akrati Saxena , George Fletcher , Mykola Pechenizkiy