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Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is one of the most central tasks in online advertising systems. Recent deep learning-based models that exploit feature embedding and high-order data nonlinearity have shown dramatic successes in CTR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Wentao Ouyang , Xiuwu Zhang , Shukui Ren , Li Li , Kun Zhang , Jinmei Luo , Zhaojie Liu , Yanlong Du

Predicting Click-Through Rates is a crucial function within recommendation and advertising platforms, as the output of CTR prediction determines the order of items shown to users. The Embedding \& MLP paradigm has become a standard approach…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Wenqiao Zhu , Lulu Wang , Jun Wu

Existing advertisements click-through rate (CTR) prediction models are mainly dependent on behavior ID features, which are learned based on the historical user-ad interactions. Nevertheless, behavior ID features relying on historical user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Tan Yu , Zhipeng Jin , Jie Liu , Yi Yang , Hongliang Fei , Ping Li

Accurate click-through rate (CTR) prediction is vital for online advertising and recommendation systems. Recent deep learning advancements have improved the ability to capture feature interactions and understand user interests. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Kefan Wang , Hao Wang , Kenan Song , Wei Guo , Kai Cheng , Zhi Li , Yong Liu , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction on cold users is a challenging task in recommender systems. Recent researches have resorted to meta-learning to tackle the cold-user challenge, which either perform few-shot user representation learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Yanyan Shen , Lifan Zhao , Weiyu Cheng , Zibin Zhang , Wenwen Zhou , Kangyi Lin

Click-through rate (CTR) models in advertising and recommendation systems rely heavily on item ID embeddings, which struggle in item cold-start settings. We present IDProxy, a solution that leverages multimodal large language models (MLLMs)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yubin Zhang , Haiming Xu , Guillaume Salha-Galvan , Ruiyan Han , Feiyang Xiao , Yanhua Huang , Li Lin , Yang Luo , Yao Hu

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is critical for industrial recommender systems, where most deep CTR models follow an Embedding \& Feature Interaction paradigm. However, the majority of methods focus on designing network architectures to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Huifeng Guo , Bo Chen , Ruiming Tang , Weinan Zhang , Zhenguo Li , Xiuqiang He

Recently, embedding techniques have achieved impressive success in recommender systems. However, the embedding techniques are data demanding and suffer from the cold-start problem. Especially, for the cold-start item which only has limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Yongchun Zhu , Ruobing Xie , Fuzhen Zhuang , Kaikai Ge , Ying Sun , Xu Zhang , Leyu Lin , Juan Cao

We propose a general Variational Embedding Learning Framework (VELF) for alleviating the severe cold-start problem in CTR prediction. VELF addresses the cold start problem via alleviating over-fits caused by data-sparsity in two ways:…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Xiaoxiao Xu , Chen Yang , Qian Yu , Zhiwei Fang , Jiaxing Wang , Chaosheng Fan , Yang He , Changping Peng , Zhangang Lin , Jingping Shao

In recommendation systems, new items are continuously introduced, initially lacking interaction records but gradually accumulating them over time. Accurately predicting the click-through rate (CTR) for these items is crucial for enhancing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yaqing Wang , Hongming Piao , Daxiang Dong , Quanming Yao , Jingbo Zhou

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial task in online display advertising. The embedding-based neural networks have been proposed to learn both explicit feature interactions through a shallow component and deep feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Wei Deng , Junwei Pan , Tian Zhou , Deguang Kong , Aaron Flores , Guang Lin

Advertising click-through rate (CTR) prediction aims to forecast the probability that a user will click on an advertisement in a given context, thus providing enterprises with decision support for product ranking and ad placement. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xiaowei Xi , Song Leng , Yuqing Gong , Dalin Li

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a critical task in online advertising systems. Most existing methods mainly model the feature-CTR relationship and suffer from the data sparsity issue. In this paper, we propose DeepMCP, which models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Wentao Ouyang , Xiuwu Zhang , Shukui Ren , Chao Qi , Zhaojie Liu , Yanlong Du

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a core task in recommender systems. Existing methods (IDRec for short) rely on unique identities to represent distinct users and items that have prevailed for decades. On one hand, IDRec often faces…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Yuanbo Gao , Peng Lin , Dongyue Wang , Feng Mei , Xiwei Zhao , Sulong Xu , Jinghe Hu

This paper investigates the one-epoch overfitting phenomenon in Click-Through Rate (CTR) models, where performance notably declines at the start of the second epoch. Despite extensive research, the efficacy of multi-epoch training over the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zhongxiang Fan , Zhaocheng Liu , Jian Liang , Dongying Kong , Han Li , Peng Jiang , Shuang Li , Kun Gai

Recently, click-through rate (CTR) prediction models have evolved from shallow methods to deep neural networks. Most deep CTR models follow an Embedding\&MLP paradigm, that is, first mapping discrete id features, e.g. user visited items,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-26 Guorui Zhou , Kailun Wu , Weijie Bian , Zhao Yang , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Kun Gai

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction has become an essential task in digital industries, such as digital advertising or online shopping. Many deep learning-based methods have been implemented and have become state-of-the-art models in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Ibrahim Can Yilmaz , Said Aldemir

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction models are integral to a myriad of industrial settings, such as personalized search advertising. Current methods typically involve feature extraction from users' historical behavior sequences combined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Lingwei Kong , Lu Wang , Changping Peng , Zhangang Lin , Ching Law , Jingping Shao

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, 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
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