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Scaling Transformer-based click-through rate (CTR) models by stacking more parameters brings growing computational and storage overhead, creating a widening gap between scaling ambitions and the stringent industrial deployment constraints.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jiakai Tang , Runfeng Zhang , Weiqiu Wang , Yifei Liu , Chuan Wang , Xu Chen , Yeqiu Yang , Jian Wu , Yuning Jiang , Bo Zheng

Many Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction works focused on designing advanced architectures to model complex feature interactions but neglected the importance of feature representation learning, e.g., adopting a plain embedding layer for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Fangye Wang , Yingxu Wang , Dongsheng Li , Hansu Gu , Tun Lu , Peng Zhang , Ning Gu

In recent years, live streaming platforms have gained immense popularity as they allow users to broadcast their videos and interact in real-time with hosts and peers. Due to the dynamic changes of live content, accurate recommendation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Jiaxin Deng , Dong Shen , Shiyao Wang , Xiangyu Wu , Fan Yang , Guorui Zhou , Gaofeng Meng

User behavior sequence modeling plays a significant role in Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction on e-commerce platforms. Except for the interacted items, user behaviors contain rich interaction information, such as the behavior type, time,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yimin Lv , Shuli Wang , Beihong Jin , Yisong Yu , Yapeng Zhang , Jian Dong , Yongkang Wang , Xingxing Wang , Dong Wang

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial task in recommendation systems, online searches, and advertising platforms, where accurately capturing users' real interests in content is essential for performance. However, existing methods…

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

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-focused machine learning paradigm that collaboratively trains models directly on edge devices. Simulation plays an essential role in FL adoption, helping develop novel aggregation and client sampling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Lorenzo Sani , Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão , Alex Iacob , Wanru Zhao , Xinchi Qiu , Yan Gao , Javier Fernandez-Marques , Nicholas Donald Lane

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

Click-Through Rate prediction is an important task in recommender systems, which aims to estimate the probability of a user to click on a given item. Recently, many deep models have been proposed to learn low-order and high-order feature…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Bin Liu , Ruiming Tang , Yingzhi Chen , Jinkai Yu , Huifeng Guo , Yuzhou Zhang

Recommendation system algorithm based on multi-task learning (MTL) is the major method for Internet operators to understand users and predict their behaviors in the multi-behavior scenario of platform. Task correlation is an important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Menglin Kong , Ri Su , Shaojie Zhao , Muzhou Hou

Feature level sets (FLS) have shown significant potential in the analysis of multi-field data by using traits defined in attribute space to specify features in the domain. In this work, we address key challenges in the practical use of FLS:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Danhua Lei , Jochen Jankowai , Petar Hristov , Hamish Carr , Leif Denby , Talha Bin Masood , Ingrid Hotz

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is crucial for personalized online services. Sample-level retrieval-based models, such as RIM, have demonstrated remarkable performance. However, they face challenges including inference inefficiency and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Huanshuo Liu , Bo Chen , Menghui Zhu , Jianghao Lin , Jiarui Qin , Yang Yang , Hao Zhang , Ruiming Tang

Collaborative Topic Regression (CTR) combines ideas of probabilistic matrix factorization (PMF) and topic modeling (e.g., LDA) for recommender systems, which has gained increasing successes in many applications. Despite enjoying many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Chenghao Liu , Tao Jin , Steven C. H. Hoi , Peilin Zhao , Jianling Sun

Modeling high-order feature interactions efficiently is a central challenge in click-through rate and conversion rate prediction. Modern industrial recommender systems are predominantly built upon deep learning recommendation models, where…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Heng Yu , Xiangjun Zhou , Jie Xia , Heng Zhao , Anxin Wu , Yu Zhao , Dongying Kong

As one of the largest e-commerce platforms in the world, Taobao's recommendation systems (RSs) serve the demands of shopping for hundreds of millions of customers. Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is a core component of the RS. One of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Lixin Liu , Yanling Wang , Tianming Wang , Dong Guan , Jiawei Wu , Jingxu Chen , Rong Xiao , Wenxiang Zhu , Fei Fang

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

In this paper, we consider the Click-Through-Rate (CTR) prediction problem. Factorization Machines and their variants consider pair-wise feature interactions, but normally we won't do high-order feature interactions using FM due to high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Kai Wang , Chunxu Shen , Chaoyun Zhang Wenye Ma

Model evolution and constant availability of data are two common phenomena in large-scale real-world machine learning applications, e.g. ads and recommendation systems. To adapt, the real-world system typically retrain with all available…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Jian Zhu , Congcong Liu , Pei Wang , Xiwei Zhao , Zhangang Lin , Jingping Shao

Click-through rate (CTR) and post-click conversion rate (CVR) predictions are two fundamental modules in industrial ranking systems such as recommender systems, advertising, and search engines. Since CVR involves much fewer samples than CTR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Xuanji Xiao , Huabin Chen , Yuzhen Liu , Xing Yao , Pei Liu , Chaosheng Fan , Nian Ji , Xirong Jiang

Learning sophisticated feature interactions behind user behaviors is critical in maximizing CTR for recommender systems. Despite great progress, existing methods seem to have a strong bias towards low- or high-order interactions, or require…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Yunming Ye , Zhenguo Li , Xiuqiang He