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User post-click conversion prediction is of high interest to researchers and developers. Recent studies employ multi-task learning to tackle the selection bias and data sparsity problem, two severe challenges in post-click behavior…

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Given a sequence of sets, where each set has a timestamp and contains an arbitrary number of elements, temporal sets prediction aims to predict the elements in the subsequent set. Previous studies for temporal sets prediction mainly focus…

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Cross-domain CTR (CDCTR) prediction is an important research topic that studies how to leverage meaningful data from a related domain to help CTR prediction in target domain. Most existing CDCTR works design implicit ways to transfer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Xu Chen , Zida Cheng , Jiangchao Yao , Chen Ju , Weilin Huang , Jinsong Lan , Xiaoyi Zeng , Shuai Xiao

Most existing unbiased learning-to-rank (ULTR) approaches are based on the user examination hypothesis, which assumes that users will click a result only if it is both relevant and observed (typically modeled by position). However, in…

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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

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is an important task for the companies to recommend products which better match user preferences. User behavior in digital advertising is dynamic and changes over time. It is crucial for the companies to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Ramazan Tarık Türksoy , Beyza Türkmen , Furkan Durmuş

Learning to capture feature relations effectively and efficiently is essential in click-through rate (CTR) prediction of modern recommendation systems. Most existing CTR prediction methods model such relations either through tedious…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Jian Zhu , Congcong Liu , Pei Wang , Xiwei Zhao , Guangpeng Chen , Junsheng Jin , Changping Peng , Zhangang Lin , Jingping Shao

Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) aims to predict future interactions based on user's historical sequential interactions from multiple domains. Generally, a key challenge of CDSR is how to mine precise cross-domain user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jiangxia Cao , Xin Cong , Jiawei Sheng , Tingwen Liu , Bin Wang

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) has been proven as a promising way to tackle the user cold-start problem, which aims to make recommendations for users in the target domain by transferring the user preference derived from the source…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Xiaodong Li , Jiawei Sheng , Jiangxia Cao , Wenyuan Zhang , Quangang Li , Tingwen Liu

The exposure sequence is being actively studied for user interest modeling in Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction. However, the existing methods for exposure sequence modeling bring extensive computational burden and neglect noise problems,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Xiaoxiao Xu , Zhiwei Fang , Qian Yu , Ruoran Huang , \\Chaosheng Fan , Yong Li , Yang He , Changping Peng , Zhangang Lin , Jingping Shao

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction, which aims to estimate the probability of a user clicking on an item, is a key task in online advertising. Numerous existing CTR models concentrate on modeling the feature interactions within a solitary…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zhen Tian , Changwang Zhang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen , Zhao Cao

Rich user behavior information is of great importance for capturing and understanding user interest in click-through rate (CTR) prediction. To improve the richness, collecting long-term behaviors becomes a typical approach in academy and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Xiaochen Li , Rui Zhong , Jian Liang , Xialong Liu , Yu Zhang

In real-world recommendation systems, users would engage in variety scenarios, such as homepages, search pages, and related recommendation pages. Each of these scenarios would reflect different aspects users focus on. However, the user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Zhijian Feng , Wenhao Zheng , Xuanji Xiao

Although deep pre-trained language models have shown promising benefit in a large set of industrial scenarios, including Click-Through-Rate (CTR) prediction, how to integrate pre-trained language models that handle only textual signals into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Dong Wang , Kavé Salamatian , Yunqing Xia , Weiwei Deng , Qi Zhiang

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

Representation learning has been a critical topic in machine learning. In Click-through Rate Prediction, most features are represented as embedding vectors and learned simultaneously with other parameters in the model. With the development…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Fuyuan Lyu , Xing Tang , Dugang Liu , Haolun Wu , Chen Ma , Xiuqiang He , Xue Liu

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

In recommendation systems, new items are continuously introduced, initially lacking interaction records but gradually accumulating them over time. Accurately predicting the click-through rate (CTR) for these items is crucial for enhancing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yaqing Wang , Hongming Piao , Daxiang Dong , Quanming Yao , Jingbo Zhou

User behavior sequences in search systems resemble "interest fossils", capturing genuine intent yet eroded by exposure bias, category drift, and contextual noise. Current methods predominantly follow an "identify-aggregate" paradigm,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Qihang Zhao , Xiaoyang Zheng , Ben Chen , Zhongbo Sun , Chenyi Lei

Many platforms, such as e-commerce websites, offer both search and recommendation services simultaneously to better meet users' diverse needs. Recommendation services suggest items based on user preferences, while search services allow…

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