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Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial task in online advertising to recommend products that users are likely to be interested in. To identify the best-performing models, rigorous model evaluation is necessary. Offline…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Ramazan Tarik Turksoy , Beyza Turkmen

Yahoo's native advertising (also known as Gemini native) serves billions of ad impressions daily, reaching a yearly run-rate of many hundred of millions USD. Driving the Gemini native models that are used to predict both click probability…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Michal Aharon , Yohay Kaplan , Rina Levy , Oren Somekh , Ayelet Blanc , Neetai Eshel , Avi Shahar , Assaf Singer , Alex Zlotnik

This research presents an innovative and unique way of solving the advertisement prediction problem which is considered as a learning problem over the past several years. Online advertising is a multi-billion-dollar industry and is growing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Muhammad Junaid Effendi , Syed Abbas Ali

Federated recommender systems (FedRS) have emerged as a paradigm for protecting user privacy by keeping interaction data on local devices while coordinating model training through a central server. However, most existing federated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Liang Qu , Jianxin Li , Wei Yuan , Shangfei Zheng , Lu Chen , Chengfei Liu , Hongzhi Yin

Federated recommender systems (FedRecs) have emerged as a popular research direction for protecting users' privacy in on-device recommendations. In FedRecs, users keep their data locally and only contribute their local collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Chaoqun Yang , Wei Yuan , Liang Qu , Thanh Tam Nguyen

Click-through rate~(CTR) prediction, whose goal is to estimate the probability of the user clicks, has become one of the core tasks in advertising systems. For CTR prediction model, it is necessary to capture the latent user interest behind…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-19 Guorui Zhou , Na Mou , Ying Fan , Qi Pi , Weijie Bian , Chang Zhou , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Kun Gai

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is fundamental to online advertising systems. While Deep Learning Recommendation Models (DLRMs) with explicit feature interactions have long dominated this domain, recent advances in generative…

Multi-modal recommendation (MMR) enriches item representations by introducing item content, e.g., visual and textual descriptions, to improve upon interaction-only recommenders. The success of MMR hinges on aligning these content modalities…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jing Du , Zesheng Ye , Congbo Ma , Feng Liu , Flora. D. Salim

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

User behaviors on an e-commerce app not only contain different kinds of feedback on items but also sometimes imply the cognitive clue of the user's decision-making. For understanding the psychological procedure behind user decisions, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Jian Dong , Yisong Yu , Yapeng Zhang , Yimin Lv , Shuli Wang , Beihong Jin , Yongkang Wang , Xingxing Wang , Dong Wang

The prediction of click-through rate (CTR) is crucial for industrial applications, such as online advertising. AUC is a commonly used evaluation indicator for CTR models. For advertising platforms, online performance is generally evaluated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Zhaocheng Liu , Guangxue Yin

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) have become increasingly popular as a powerful tool for providing personalized recommendation experiences. By directly engaging with users in a conversational manner to learn their current and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Allen Lin , Jianling Wang , Ziwei Zhu , James Caverlee

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

The click-through rate (CTR) reflects the ratio of clicks on a specific item to its total number of views. It has significant impact on websites' advertising revenue. Learning sophisticated models to understand and predict user behavior is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Amit Livne , Roy Dor , Eyal Mazuz , Tamar Didi , Bracha Shapira , Lior Rokach

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

In modern advertising and recommender systems, multi-task learning (MTL) paradigm has been widely employed to jointly predict diverse user feedbacks (e.g. click and purchase). While, existing MTL approaches are either rigid to adapt to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Zihan Lin , Xuanhua Yang , Xiaoyu Peng , Wayne Xin Zhao , Shaoguo Liu , Liang Wang , Bo Zheng

Federated learning enables joint training of machine learning models from distributed clients without sharing their local data. One key challenge in federated learning is to handle non-identically distributed data across the clients, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Tiejin Chen , Yuanpu Cao , Yujia Wang , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Jinghui Chen

In this paper, the content popularity prediction problem in fog radio access networks (F-RANs) is investigated. Based on clustered federated learning, we propose a novel mobility-aware popularity prediction policy, which integrates content…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Zhiheng Wang , Yanxiang Jiang , Fu-Chun Zheng , Mehdi Bennis , Xiaohu You

Collaborative personalization, such as through learned user representations (embeddings), can improve the prediction accuracy of neural-network-based models significantly. We propose Federated User Representation Learning (FURL), a simple,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Duc Bui , Kshitiz Malik , Jack Goetz , Honglei Liu , Seungwhan Moon , Anuj Kumar , Kang G. Shin

Privacy-preserving distributed model training is crucial for modern machine learning applications, yet existing Federated Learning approaches struggle with heterogeneous data distributions and varying computational capabilities. Traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Michael A. Helcig , Stefan Nastic