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Trajectory prediction aims to predict the movement trend of the agents like pedestrians, bikers, vehicles. It is helpful to analyze and understand human activities in crowded spaces and widely applied in many areas such as surveillance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Beihao Xia , Conghao Wong , Qinmu Peng , Wei Yuan , Xinge You

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction, which models behavior sequence and non-sequential features (e.g., user/item profiles or cross features) to infer user interest, underpins industrial recommender systems. However, most methods face three…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Shuwei Chen , Jiajun Cui , Zhengqi Xu , Fan Zhang , Jiangke Fan , Teng Zhang , Xingxing Wang

In many online applications interactions between a user and a web-service are organized in a sequential way, e.g., user browsing an e-commerce website. In this setting, recommendation system acts throughout user navigation by showing items.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Elena Smirnova

User interaction behavior is a valuable source of implicit relevance feedback. In Web image search a different type of search result presentation is used than in general Web search, which leads to different interaction mechanisms and user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Xiaohui Xie , Jiaxin Mao , Maarten de Rijke , Ruizhe Zhang , Min Zhang , Shaoping Ma

With the rapid development of online advertising and recommendation systems, click-through rate prediction is expected to play an increasingly important role.Recently many DNN-based models which follow a similar Embedding&MLP paradigm have…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-01 Chenglei Niu , Guojing Zhong , Ying Liu , Yandong Zhang , Yongsheng Sun , Ailong He , Zhaoji Chen

We study the problem of predicting student knowledge acquisition in online courses from clickstream behavior. Motivated by the proliferation of eLearning lecture delivery, we specifically focus on student in-video activity in lectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Yun-Wei Chu , Elizabeth Tenorio , Laura Cruz , Kerrie Douglas , Andrew S. Lan , Christopher G. Brinton

Rich user behavior data has been proven to be of great value for Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction applications, especially in industrial recommender, search, or advertising systems. However, it's non-trivial for real-world systems to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Yue Cao , XiaoJiang Zhou , Jiaqi Feng , Peihao Huang , Yao Xiao , Dayao Chen , Sheng Chen

Given a sequence of sets, where each set has a timestamp and contains an arbitrary number of elements, temporal sets prediction aims to predict the elements in the subsequent set. Previous studies for temporal sets prediction mainly focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Le Yu , Zihang Liu , Leilei Sun , Bowen Du , Chuanren Liu , Weifeng Lv

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction, whose aim is to predict the probability of whether a user will click on an item, is an essential task for many online applications. Due to the nature of data sparsity and high dimensionality of CTR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Yichen Xu , Yanqiao Zhu , Feng Yu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu

In web search and recommendation systems, user clicks are widely used to train ranking models. However, click data is heavily biased, i.e., users tend to click higher-ranked items (position bias), choose only what was shown to them…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Haoming Gong , Qingyao Ai , Zhihao Tao , Yongfeng Zhang

In a variety of online settings involving interaction with end-users it is critical for the systems to adapt to changes in user preferences. User preferences on items tend to change over time due to a variety of factors such as change in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Farzad Eskandanian , Bamshad Mobasher

Modern software systems are able to record vast amounts of user actions, stored for later analysis. One of the main types of such user interaction data is click data: the digital trace of the actions of a user through the graphical elements…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Marco Pegoraro , Merih Seran Uysal , Tom-Hendrik Hülsmann , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction, which predicts the probability of a user clicking an ad, is a fundamental task in recommender systems. The emergence of heterogeneous information, such as user profile and behavior sequences, depicts…

Click-through data has proven to be a valuable resource for improving search-ranking quality. Search engines can easily collect click data, but biases introduced in the data can make it difficult to use the data effectively. In order to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Yingcheng Sun , Richard Kolacinski , Kenneth Loparo

We propose a novel sequence prediction method for sequential data capturing node traversals in graphs. Our method builds on a statistical modelling framework that combines multiple higher-order network models into a single multi-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Christoph Gote , Giona Casiraghi , Frank Schweitzer , Ingo Scholtes

Tracking mouse cursor movements can be used to predict user attention on heterogeneous page layouts like SERPs. So far, previous work has relied heavily on handcrafted features, which is a time-consuming approach that often requires domain…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Ioannis Arapakis , Luis A. Leiva

Stack Overflow is one of the most popular Programming Community-based Question Answering (PCQA) websites that has attracted more and more users in recent years. When users raise or inquire questions in Stack Overflow, providing related…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Jiayan Pei , Yimin Wu , Zishan Qin , Yao Cong , Jingtao Guan

Modeling visual search not only offers an opportunity to predict the usability of an interface before actually testing it on real users, but also advances scientific understanding about human behavior. In this work, we first conduct a set…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Arianna Yuan , Yang Li

Sequential search models provide a powerful framework for studying consumer search using rich data that records the sequence of consumer actions taken during the search process. In existing empirical applications, their implementation often…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-05-05 Tinghan Zhang

The task of session search focuses on using interaction data to improve relevance for the user's next query at the session level. In this paper, we formulate session search as a personalization task under the framework of learning to rank.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Saad Aloteibi , Stephen Clark