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Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is one of the core tasks in recommender systems (RS). It predicts a personalized click probability for each user-item pair. Recently, researchers have found that the performance of CTR model can be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Qiwei Chen , Changhua Pei , Shanshan Lv , Chao Li , Junfeng Ge , Wenwu Ou

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction tasks play a pivotal role in real-world applications, particularly in recommendation systems and online advertising. A significant research branch in this domain focuses on user behavior modeling. Current…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Hengyu Zhang , Junwei Pan , Dapeng Liu , Jie Jiang , Xiu Li

Session-based recommendation (SBR) is a task that aims to predict items based on anonymous sequences of user behaviors in a session. While there are methods that leverage rich context information in sessions for SBR, most of them have the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Zhihui Zhang , JianXiang Yu , Xiang Li

One of the most critical problems in e-commerce domain is the information overload problem. Usually, an enormous number of products is offered to a user. The characteristics of this domain force researchers to opt for session-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Miroslav Rac , Michal Kompan , Maria Bielikova

Since sequential information plays an important role in modeling user behaviors, various sequential recommendation methods have been proposed. Methods based on Markov assumption are widely-used, but independently combine several most recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Diyi Wang , Zhaokang Li , Liang Wang

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a fundamental technique in recommendation and advertising systems. Recent studies have proved that learning a unified model to serve multiple domains is effective to improve the overall performance.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Xuanhua Yang , Xiaoyu Peng , Penghui Wei , Shaoguo Liu , Liang Wang , Bo Zheng

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction models are integral to a myriad of industrial settings, such as personalized search advertising. Current methods typically involve feature extraction from users' historical behavior sequences combined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Lingwei Kong , Lu Wang , Changping Peng , Zhangang Lin , Ching Law , Jingping Shao

Session-based recommendation is a challenging problem in the real-world scenes, e.g., ecommerce, short video platforms, and music platforms, which aims to predict the next click action based on the anonymous session. Recently, graph neural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Guanghui Zhu , Haojun Hou , Jingfan Chen , Chunfeng Yuan , Yihua Huang

Sequential user behavior modeling is pivotal for Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction yet is hindered by three intrinsic bottlenecks: (1) the "Attention Sink" phenomenon, where standard Softmax compels the model to allocate probability mass…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Shenqiang Ke , Jianxiong Wei , Qingsong Hua

Improving the performance of click-through rate (CTR) prediction remains one of the core tasks in online advertising systems. With the rise of deep learning, CTR prediction models with deep networks remarkably enhance model capacities. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Yikai Wang , Liang Zhang , Quanyu Dai , Fuchun Sun , Bo Zhang , Yang He , Weipeng Yan , Yongjun Bao

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) has become an emerging research topic seeking to perform recommendations through interactive conversations, which generally consist of generation and recommendation modules. Prior work on CRS tends…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Lingzhi Wang , Shafiq Joty , Wei Gao , Xingshan Zeng , Kam-Fai Wong

Cross-domain Click-Through Rate prediction aims to tackle the data sparsity and the cold start problems in online advertising systems by transferring knowledge from source domains to a target domain. Most existing methods rely on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Wei Xu , Haoran Li , Baoyuan Ou , Lai Xu , Yingjie Qin , Ruilong Su , Ruiwen Xu

Capturing the temporal dynamics of user preferences over items is important for recommendation. Existing methods mainly assume that all time steps in user-item interaction history are equally relevant to recommendation, which however does…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Wenjie Pei , Jie Yang , Zhu Sun , Jie Zhang , Alessandro Bozzon , David M. J. Tax

The problem of session-aware recommendation aims to predict users' next click based on their current session and historical sessions. Existing session-aware recommendation methods have defects in capturing complex item transition…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Mengqi Zhang , Shu Wu , Meng Gao , Xin Jiang , Ke Xu , Liang Wang

Session-based recommender systems (SBRSs) predict users' next interacted items based on their historical activities. While most SBRSs capture purchasing intentions locally within each session, capturing items' global information across…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yu Wang , Amin Javari , Janani Balaji , Walid Shalaby , Tyler Derr , Xiquan Cui

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays an important role in online advertising and recommendation systems, which aims at estimating the probability of a user clicking on a specific item. Feature interaction modeling and user interest…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Zuowu Zheng , Changwang Zhang , Xiaofeng Gao , Guihai Chen

Traffic prediction in data-scarce, cross-city settings is challenging due to complex nonlinear dynamics and domain shifts. Existing methods often fail to capture traffic's inherent chaotic nature for effective few-shot learning. We propose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Abdul Joseph Fofanah , Lian Wen , David Chen , Alpha Alimamy Kamara , Zhongyi Zhang

Recently, models for user representation learning have been widely applied in click-through-rate (CTR) and conversion-rate (CVR) prediction. Usually, the model learns a universal user representation as the input for subsequent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Xiaoyu Tan , Yongxin Deng , Chao Qu , Siqiao Xue , Xiaoming Shi , James Zhang , Xihe Qiu

Knowledge graphs contain rich semantic relationships related to items and incorporating such semantic relationships into recommender systems helps to explore the latent connections of items, thus improving the accuracy of prediction and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Jinfeng Zhong , Elsa Negre

Recommendation systems have been extensively studied by many literature in the past and are ubiquitous in online advertisement, shopping industry/e-commerce, query suggestions in search engines, and friend recommendation in social networks.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Farzaneh Rajabi , Jack Siyuan He