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Click-through rate prediction is one of the core tasks in commercial recommender systems. It aims to predict the probability of a user clicking a particular item given user and item features. As feature interactions bring in non-linearity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Fuyuan Lyu , Xing Tang , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Xiuqiang He , Rui Zhang , Xue Liu

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction models estimates the probability of a user-item click by modeling interactions across a vast feature space. A fundamental yet often overlooked challenge is the inherent heterogeneity of these features:…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yi Xu , Moyu Zhang , Chaofan Fan , Jinxin Hu , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng

Incorporating item content information into click-through rate (CTR) prediction models remains a challenge, especially with the time and space constraints of industrial scenarios. The content-encoding paradigm, which integrates user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Qijiong Liu , Hengchang Hu , Jiahao Wu , Jieming Zhu , Min-Yen Kan , Xiao-Ming Wu

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

Recent advances in foundation models have established scaling laws that enable the development of larger models to achieve enhanced performance, motivating extensive research into large-scale recommendation models. However, simply…

Accurately predicting click-through rates (CTR) under stringent privacy constraints poses profound challenges, particularly when user-item interactions are sparse and fragmented across domains. Conventional cross-domain CTR (CCTR) methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Jiangcheng Qin , Xueyuan Zhang , Baisong Liu , Jiangbo Qian , Yangyang Wang

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays a crucial role in modern recommender systems. While many existing methods utilize ensemble networks to improve CTR model performance, they typically restrict the ensemble to only two or three…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Honghao Li , Lei Sang , Yi Zhang , Guangming Cui , Yiwen Zhang

Modeling feature interactions plays a crucial role in accurately predicting click-through rates (CTR) in advertising systems. To capture the intricate patterns of interaction, many existing models employ matrix-factorization techniques to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Yu Kang , Junwei Pan , Jipeng Jin , Shudong Huang , Xiaofeng Gao , Lei Xiao

Embedding tables are usually huge in click-through rate (CTR) prediction models. To train and deploy the CTR models efficiently and economically, it is necessary to compress their embedding tables at the training stage. To this end, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Shiwei Li , Huifeng Guo , Lu Hou , Wei Zhang , Xing Tang , Ruiming Tang , Rui Zhang , Ruixuan Li

Click-through rate(CTR) prediction is a core task in cost-per-click(CPC) advertising systems and has been studied extensively by machine learning practitioners. While many existing methods have been successfully deployed in practice, most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Ke Hu , Yi Qi , Jianqiang Huang , Jia Cheng , Jun Lei

In the domain of computer vision, Parameter-Efficient Tuning (PET) is increasingly replacing the traditional paradigm of pre-training followed by full fine-tuning. PET is particularly favored for its effectiveness in large foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Jiaqi Huang , Zunnan Xu , Ting Liu , Yong Liu , Haonan Han , Kehong Yuan , Xiu Li

The challenge of solving data mining problems in e-commerce applications such as recommendation system (RS) and click-through rate (CTR) prediction is how to make inferences by constructing combinatorial features from a large number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Zhenyuan Zhong , Jie Yang , Yacong Ma , Shoubin Dong , Jinlong Hu

The goal of Feature Selection - comprising filter, wrapper, and embedded approaches - is to find the optimal feature subset for designated downstream tasks. Nevertheless, current feature selection methods are limited by: 1) the selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Meng Xiao , Dongjie Wang , Min Wu , Pengfei Wang , Yuanchun Zhou , Yanjie Fu

Click-through-rate (CTR) prediction has an essential impact on improving user experience and revenue in e-commerce search. With the development of deep learning, graph-based methods are well exploited to utilize graph structure extracted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Pipi Peng , Yunqing Jia , Ziqiang Zhou , murmurhash , Zichong Xiao

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial component in the online advertising industry. In order to produce a personalized CTR prediction, an industry-level CTR prediction model commonly takes a high-dimensional (e.g., 100 or 1000…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Weijie Zhao , Xuewu Jiao , Mingqing Hu , Xiaoyun Li , Xiangyu Zhang , Ping Li

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

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction models are common in many online applications such as digital advertising and recommender systems. Field-Aware Factorization Machine (FFM) and Field-weighted Factorization Machine (FwFM) are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Harshit Pande

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction, which aims to estimate the probability that a user will click an item, is an essential component of online advertising. Existing methods mainly attempt to mine user interests from users' historical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Erxue Min , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Yatao Bian , Peilin Zhao , Junzhou Huang , Da Luo , Kangyi Lin , Sophia Ananiadou

Data sparsity is an important issue for click-through rate (CTR) prediction, particularly when user-item interactions is too sparse to learn a reliable model. Recently, many works on cross-domain CTR (CDCTR) prediction have been developed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Xu Chen , Zida Cheng , Shuai Xiao , Xiaoyi Zeng , Weilin Huang

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…

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