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Click-through rate prediction plays an important role in the field of recommender system and many other applications. Existing methods mainly extract user interests from user historical behaviors. However, behavioral sequences only contain…

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Carousels (also-known as multilists) have become the standard user interface for e-commerce platforms replacing the ranked list, the previous standard for recommender systems. While the research community has begun to focus on carousels,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Santiago de Leon-Martinez

Lifelong sequential modeling (LSM) is becoming increasingly critical in social media recommendation systems for predicting the click-through rate (CTR) of items presented to users. Central to this process is the attention mechanism, which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Ting Guo , Zhaoyang Yang , Qinsong Zeng , Ming Chen

While many production-ready and robust algorithms are available for the task of recommendation systems, many of these systems do not take the order of user's consumption into account. The order of consumption can be very useful and matters…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Mehdi Soleiman Nejad , Meysam Varasteh , Hadi Moradi , Mohammad Amin Sadeghi

Natural language sentence matching is the task of comparing two sentences and identifying the relationship between them.It has a wide range of applications in natural language processing tasks such as reading comprehension, question and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Kexin Jiang , Yahui Zhao , Rongyi Cui , Zhenguo Zhang

Recommender systems are one of the most successful applications of machine learning and data science. They are successful in a wide variety of application domains, including e-commerce, media streaming content, email marketing, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Juan Pablo Equihua , Maged Ali , Henrik Nordmark , Berthold Lausen

Sequential recommendation predicts users' next behaviors with their historical interactions. Recommending with longer sequences improves recommendation accuracy and increases the degree of personalization. As sequences get longer, existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Qianying Lin , Wen-Ji Zhou , Yanshi Wang , Qing Da , Qing-Guo Chen , Bing Wang

Search and recommendation are the two most common approaches used by people to obtain information. They share the same goal -- satisfying the user's information need at the right time. There are already a lot of Internet platforms and Apps…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Jing Yao , Zhicheng Dou , Ruobing Xie , Yanxiong Lu , Zhiping Wang , Ji-Rong Wen

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction, which aims to estimate the probability that a user will click an item, is an essential component of online advertising. Existing methods mainly attempt to mine user interests from users' historical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Erxue Min , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Yatao Bian , Peilin Zhao , Junzhou Huang , Da Luo , Kangyi Lin , Sophia Ananiadou

Modern Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) present complex layouts where multiple elements compete for visibility. Attention modelling is crucial for optimising web design and computational advertising, whereas attention metrics can inform…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Mario Villaizán-Vallelado , Matteo Salvatori , Kayhan Latifzadeh , Antonio Penta , Luis A. Leiva , Ioannis Arapakis

Users issue queries to Search Engines, and try to find the desired information in the results produced. They repeat this process if their information need is not met at the first place. It is crucial to identify the important words in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Kishaloy Halder , Heng-Tze Cheng , Ellie Ka In Chio , Georgios Roumpos , Tao Wu , Ritesh Agarwal

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction aims to predict the probability that the user will click an item, which has been one of the key tasks in online recommender and advertising systems. In such systems, rich user behavior (viz. long- and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Huinan Sun , Guangliang Yu , Pengye Zhang , Bo Zhang , Xingxing Wang , Dong Wang

An effective ranking model usually requires a large amount of training data to learn the relevance between documents and queries. User clicks are often used as training data since they can indicate relevance and are cheap to collect, but…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Xiaojie Sun , Lulu Yu , Yiting Wang , Keping Bi , Jiafeng Guo

Unbiased CLTR requires click propensities to compensate for the difference between user clicks and true relevance of search results via IPS. Current propensity estimation methods assume that user click behavior follows the PBM and estimate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Ali Vardasbi , Maarten de Rijke , Ilya Markov

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction, whose goal is to predict the probability of the user to click on an item, has become increasingly significant in the recommender systems. Recently, some deep learning models with the ability to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Tianwei Cao , Qianqian Xu , Zhiyong Yang , Qingming Huang

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is critical for industrial applications such as recommender system and online advertising. Practically, it plays an important role for CTR modeling in these applications by mining user interest from rich…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Qi Pi , Weijie Bian , Guorui Zhou , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Kun Gai

The problem of predicting human motion given a sequence of past observations is at the core of many applications in robotics and computer vision. Current state-of-the-art formulate this problem as a sequence-to-sequence task, in which a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Enric Corona , Albert Pumarola , Guillem Alenyà , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

Ranking systems form the basis for online search engines and recommendation services. They process large collections of items, for instance web pages or e-commerce products, and present the user with a small ordered selection. The goal of a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Harrie Oosterhuis

Sequential recommendations aim to capture users' preferences from their historical interactions so as to predict the next item that they will interact with. Sequential recommendation methods usually assume that all items in a user's…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Yujie Lin , Chenyang Wang , Zhumin Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Xin Xin , Qiang Yan , Maarten de Rijke , Xiuzhen Cheng , Pengjie Ren

Computer input is more complex than a sequence of single mouse clicks and keyboard presses. We introduce a novel method to identify and represent the user interactions and build a system which predicts - in real-time - the action a user is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Fabio Matti , Pierre Dillenbourg , Ludovico Novelli