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Understanding how features interact with each other is of paramount importance in many scientific discoveries and contemporary applications. Yet interaction identification becomes challenging even for a moderate number of covariates. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-05-31 Yingying Fan , Yinfei Kong , Daoji Li , Jinchi Lv

In a typical supervised machine learning setting, the predictions on all test instances are based on a common subset of features discovered during model training. However, using a different subset of features that is most informative for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Yasitha Warahena Liyanage , Daphney-Stavroula Zois , Charalampos Chelmis

Factorization machine (FM) is a prevalent approach to modeling pairwise (second-order) feature interactions when dealing with high-dimensional sparse data. However, on the one hand, FM fails to capture higher-order feature interactions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Shu Wu , Zekun Li , Yunyue Su , Zeyu Cui , Xiaoyu Zhang , Liang Wang

Adopting advances in recommendation systems is often challenging in industrial settings due to unique constraints. This paper aims to highlight these constraints through the lens of feature interactions. Feature interactions are critical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Siddarth Malreddy , Matthew Lawhon , Usha Amrutha Nookala , Aditya Mantha , Dhruvil Deven Badani

Learning feature interactions is crucial for click-through rate (CTR) prediction in recommender systems. In most existing deep learning models, feature interactions are either manually designed or simply enumerated. However, enumerating all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Bin Liu , Chenxu Zhu , Guilin Li , Weinan Zhang , Jincai Lai , Ruiming Tang , Xiuqiang He , Zhenguo Li , Yong Yu

High-level classification algorithms focus on the interactions between instances. These produce a new form to evaluate and classify data. In this process, the core is the complex network building methodology because it determines the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Esteban Wilfredo Vilca Zuñiga

Accurate predictions on tabular data rely on capturing complex, dataset-specific feature interactions. Attention-based methods and graph neural networks, referred to as graph-based tabular deep learning (GTDL), aim to improve predictions by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Elias Dubbeldam , Reza Mohammadi , Marit Schoonhoven , S. Ilker Birbil

Many methods have been proposed for community detection in networks, but most of them do not take into account additional information on the nodes that is often available in practice. In this paper, we propose a new joint community…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-13 Yuan Zhang , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

LLMs have garnered substantial attention in recommendation systems. Yet they fall short of traditional recommenders when capturing complex preference patterns. Recent works have tried integrating traditional recommendation embeddings into…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yuting Zhang , Ziliang Pei , Chao Wang , Ying Sun , Fuzhen Zhuang

Factorization Machine (FM) is a widely used supervised learning approach by effectively modeling of feature interactions. Despite the successful application of FM and its many deep learning variants, treating every feature interaction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Fuxing Hong , Dongbo Huang , Ge Chen

Feature selection is an important task in many problems occurring in pattern recognition, bioinformatics, machine learning and data mining applications. The feature selection approach enables us to reduce the computation burden and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Hadi Zare , Mojtaba Niazi

User and item reviews are valuable for the construction of recommender systems. In general, existing review-based methods for recommendation can be broadly categorized into two groups: the siamese models that build static user and item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Hansi Zeng , Zhichao Xu , Qingyao Ai

We study feature interactions in the context of feature attribution methods for post-hoc interpretability. In interpretability research, getting to grips with feature interactions is increasingly recognised as an important challenge,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jaap Jumelet , Willem Zuidema

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is an essential task in web applications such as online advertising and recommender systems, whose features are usually in multi-field form. The key of this task is to model feature interactions among…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Zekun Li , Zeyu Cui , Shu Wu , Xiaoyu Zhang , Liang Wang

Click-Through Rate prediction aims to predict the ratio of clicks to impressions of a specific link. This is a challenging task since (1) there are usually categorical features, and the inputs will be extremely high-dimensional if one-hot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Qiuqiang Lin , Chuanhou Gao

Recommender systems have been demonstrated to be effective to meet user's personalized interests for many online services (e.g., E-commerce and online advertising platforms). Recent years have witnessed the emerging success of many deep…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang , Yong Xu , Peng Dai , Liefeng Bo

Click-through prediction (CTR) models transform features into latent vectors and enumerate possible feature interactions to improve performance based on the input feature set. Therefore, when selecting an optimal feature set, we should…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Fuyuan Lyu , Xing Tang , Dugang Liu , Liang Chen , Xiuqiang He , Xue Liu

Interpreting neural networks is a crucial and challenging task in machine learning. In this paper, we develop a novel framework for detecting statistical interactions captured by a feedforward multilayer neural network by directly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-28 Michael Tsang , Dehua Cheng , Yan Liu

In many graphs such as social networks, nodes have associated attributes representing their behavior. Predicting node attributes in such graphs is an important problem with applications in many domains like recommendation systems, privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Sarwan Ali , Muhammad Haroon Shakeel , Imdadullah Khan , Safiullah Faizullah , Muhammad Asad Khan

Recommender system research has oftentimes focused on approaches that operate on large-scale datasets containing millions of user interactions. However, many small businesses struggle to apply state-of-the-art models due to their very…