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Effective feature interaction modeling is critical for enhancing the accuracy of click-through rate (CTR) prediction in industrial recommender systems. Most of the current deep CTR models resort to building complex network architectures to…

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Verizon Media (VZM) native advertising is one of VZM largest and fastest growing businesses, reaching a run-rate of several hundred million USDs in the past year. Driving the VZM native models that are used to predict event probabilities,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Yohay Kaplan , Naama Krasne , Alex Shtoff , Oren Somekh

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

As a critical component for online advertising and marking, click-through rate (CTR) prediction has draw lots of attentions from both industry and academia field. Recently, the deep learning has become the mainstream methodological choice…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Zhishan Zhao , Sen Yang , Guohui Liu , Dawei Feng , Kele Xu

Despite the rapid growth of online advertisement in developing countries, existing highly over-parameterized Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction models are difficult to be deployed due to the limited computing resources. In this paper, by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Joonyoung Yi , Buru Chang

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is one of the most important and challenging in calculating advertisements and recommendation systems. To build a machine learning system with these data, it is important to properly model the interaction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Dafang Zou , Leiming Zhang , Jiafa Mao , Weiguo Sheng

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction plays a core role in recommender systems, serving as the final-stage filter to rank items for a user. The key to addressing the CTR task is learning feature interactions that are useful for prediction,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Yang Zhang , Tianhao Shi , Fuli Feng , Wenjie Wang , Dingxian Wang , Xiangnan He , Yongdong Zhang

In digital advertising, Click-Through Rate (CTR) and Conversion Rate (CVR) are very important metrics for evaluating ad performance. As a result, ad event prediction systems are vital and widely used for sponsored search and display…

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Federated training methods have gained popularity for graph learning with applications including friendship graphs of social media sites and customer-merchant interaction graphs of huge online marketplaces. However, privacy regulations…

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A User Next Location Prediction (UNLP) task, which predicts the next location that a user will move to given his/her trajectory, is an indispensable task for a wide range of applications. Previous studies using large-scale trajectory…

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Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is crucial in recommendation and online advertising systems. Existing methods usually model user behaviors, while ignoring the informative context which influences the user to make a click decision, e.g.,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Xiang Li , Shuwei Chen , Jian Dong , Jin Zhang , Yongkang Wang , Xingxing Wang , Dong Wang

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays a pivotal role in online advertising and recommender systems. Despite notable progress in modeling user preferences from historical behaviors, two key challenges persist. First, exsiting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Kesha Ou , Zhen Tian , Wayne Xin Zhao , Hongyu Lu , Ji-Rong Wen

Multimodal click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a key technique in industrial recommender systems. It leverages heterogeneous modalities such as text, images, and behavioral logs to capture high-order feature interactions between users…

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The growing interest in intelligent services and privacy protection for mobile devices has given rise to the widespread application of federated learning in Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC). Diverse user behaviors call for personalized…

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Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a critical task for many applications, as its accuracy has a direct impact on user experience and platform revenue. In recent years, CTR prediction has been widely studied in both academia and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jieming Zhu , Jinyang Liu , Shuai Yang , Qi Zhang , Xiuqiang He

The task of predicting conversion rates (CVR) lies at the heart of online advertising systems aiming to optimize bids to meet advertiser performance requirements. Even with the recent rise of deep neural networks, these predictions are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Alex Shtoff , Yohay Kaplan , Ariel Raviv

The study of user interest models has received a great deal of attention in click through rate (CTR) prediction recently. These models aim at capturing user interest from different perspectives, including user interest evolution, session…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Xiaochen Li , Xin Song , Pengjia Yuan , Xialong Liu , Yu Zhang

Etsy is a global marketplace where people across the world connect to make, buy and sell unique goods. Sellers at Etsy can promote their product listings via advertising campaigns similar to traditional sponsored search ads. Click-Through…

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Personalized News Recommendation systems (PNR) have emerged as a solution to information overload by predicting and suggesting news items tailored to individual user interests. However, traditional PNR systems face several challenges,…

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Accurately modeling user preferences is crucial for improving the performance of content-based recommender systems. Existing approaches often rely on simplistic user profiling methods, such as averaging or concatenating item embeddings,…

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