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Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays an important role in online advertising systems. On the one hand, traditional CTR prediction models capture the collaborative signals in tabular data via feature interaction modeling, but they lose…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Rui Dong , Wentao Ouyang , Xiangzheng Liu

Extracting expressive visual features is crucial for accurate Click-Through-Rate (CTR) prediction in visual search advertising systems. Current commercial systems use off-the-shelf visual encoders to facilitate fast online service. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Si Chen , Chen Lin , Wanxian Guan , Jiayi Wei , Xingyuan Bu , He Guo , Hui Li , Xubin Li , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng

In Click-through rate (CTR) prediction models, a user's interest is usually represented as a fixed-length vector based on her history behaviors. Recently, several methods are proposed to learn an attentive weight for each user behavior and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Zuowu Zheng , Xiaofeng Gao , Junwei Pan , Qi Luo , Guihai Chen , Dapeng Liu , Jie Jiang

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 serves as a fundamental component in online advertising. A common practice is to train a CTR model on advertisement (ad) impressions with user feedback. Since ad impressions are purposely selected by the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Jingyue Gao , Shuguang Han , Han Zhu , Siran Yang , Yuning Jiang , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial task in web search, recommender systems, and online advertisement displaying. In practical application, CTR models often serve with high-speed user-generated data streams, whose underlying…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Congcong Liu , Yuejiang Li , Fei Teng , Xiwei Zhao , Changping Peng , Zhangang Lin , Jinghe Hu , Jingping Shao

CTR prediction is essential for modern recommender systems. Ranging from early factorization machines to deep learning based models in recent years, existing CTR methods focus on capturing useful feature interactions or mining important…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Wei Guo , Can Zhang , Zhicheng He , Jiarui Qin , Huifeng Guo , Bo Chen , Ruiming Tang , Xiuqiang He , Rui Zhang

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

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial area of research in online advertising. While binary cross entropy (BCE) has been widely used as the optimization objective for treating CTR prediction as a binary classification problem,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zhutian Lin , Junwei Pan , Shangyu Zhang , Ximei Wang , Xi Xiao , Shudong Huang , Lei Xiao , Jie Jiang

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) prediction is a crucial task in the context of an online on-demand food delivery (OFD) platform for precisely estimating the probability of a user clicking on food items. Unlike universal e-commerce platforms such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Guyu Jiang , Xiaoyun Li , Rongrong Jing , Ruoqi Zhao , Xingliang Ni , Guodong Cao , Ning Hu

Capturing the evolving trends of user interest is important for both recommendation systems and advertising systems, and user behavior sequences have been successfully used in Click-Through-Rate(CTR) prediction problems. However, if the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Dike Sun , Kai Liu , ShengKai Yang

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

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 prediction is one of the fundamental problems in sponsored search. Most of existing studies took advantage of machine learning approaches to predict ad click for each event of ad view independently. However, as observed in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Yuyu Zhang , Hanjun Dai , Chang Xu , Jun Feng , Taifeng Wang , Jiang Bian , Bin Wang , Tie-Yan Liu

Optimizing ranking systems based on user interactions is a well-studied problem. State-of-the-art methods for optimizing ranking systems based on user interactions are divided into online approaches - that learn by directly interacting with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Harrie Oosterhuis , Maarten de Rijke

We study the design of loss functions for click-through rates (CTR) to optimize (social) welfare in advertising auctions. Existing works either only focus on CTR predictions without consideration of business objectives (e.g., welfare) in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Boxiang Lyu , Zhe Feng , Zachary Robertson , Sanmi Koyejo

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a critical task in online advertising systems. Existing works mainly address the single-domain CTR prediction problem and model aspects such as feature interaction, user behavior history and contextual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Wentao Ouyang , Xiuwu Zhang , Lei Zhao , Jinmei Luo , Yu Zhang , Heng Zou , Zhaojie Liu , Yanlong Du

In many web applications, deep learning-based CTR prediction models (deep CTR models for short) are widely adopted. Traditional deep CTR models learn patterns in a static manner, i.e., the network parameters are the same across all the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Bencheng Yan , Pengjie Wang , Kai Zhang , Feng Li , Hongbo Deng , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng

Ranking is a crucial module using in the recommender system. In particular, the ranking module using in our YoungTao recommendation scenario is to provide an ordered list of items to users, to maximize the click number throughout the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Shaowei Liu , Yangjun Liu