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We consider the problem of learning to choose from a given set of objects, where each object is represented by a feature vector. Traditional approaches in choice modelling are mainly based on learning a latent, real-valued utility function,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Karlson Pfannschmidt , Eyke Hüllermeier

Learning embedding table plays a fundamental role in Click-through rate(CTR) prediction from the view of the model performance and memory usage. The embedding table is a two-dimensional tensor, with its axes indicating the number of feature…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Fuyuan Lyu , Xing Tang , Hong Zhu , Huifeng Guo , Yingxue Zhang , Ruiming Tang , Xue Liu

Attribute recognition is a crucial but challenging task due to viewpoint changes, illumination variations and appearance diversities, etc. Most of previous work only consider the attribute-level feature embedding, which might perform poorly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Jie Yang , Jiarou Fan , Yiru Wang , Yige Wang , Weihao Gan , Lin Liu , Wei Wu

Text embedding models serve as a fundamental component in real-world search applications. By mapping queries and documents into a shared embedding space, they deliver competitive retrieval performance with high efficiency. However, their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Qi Liu , Yanzhao Zhang , Mingxin Li , Dingkun Long , Pengjun Xie , Jiaxin Mao

Modern recommendation systems rely on real-valued embeddings of categorical features. Increasing the dimension of embedding vectors improves model accuracy but comes at a high cost to model size. We introduce a multi-layer embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Benjamin Ghaemmaghami , Zihao Deng , Benjamin Cho , Leo Orshansky , Ashish Kumar Singh , Mattan Erez , Michael Orshansky

Data-driven approaches such as deep learning can result in predictive models for material properties with exceptional accuracy and efficiency. However, in many applications, data is sparse, severely limiting their accuracy and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Robert J Appleton , Brian C Barnes , Alejandro Strachan

Fine-grained and instance-level recognition methods are commonly trained and evaluated on specific domains, in a model per domain scenario. Such an approach, however, is impractical in real large-scale applications. In this work, we address…

Multiplex networks are collections of networks with identical nodes but distinct layers of edges. They are genuine representations for a large variety of real systems whose elements interact in multiple fashions or flavors. However,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-02-27 Daniel Kaiser , Siddharth Patwardhan , Minsuk Kim , Filippo Radicchi

Combining multiple machine learning models has long been a technique for enhancing performance, particularly in distributed settings. Traditional approaches, such as model ensembles, work well, but are expensive in terms of memory and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Albert Manuel Orozco Camacho , Stefan Horoi , Guy Wolf , Eugene Belilovsky

Nowadays, deep learning models are widely adopted in web-scale applications such as recommender systems, and online advertising. In these applications, embedding learning of categorical features is crucial to the success of deep learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Bencheng Yan , Pengjie Wang , Jinquan Liu , Wei Lin , Kuang-Chih Lee , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng

Crowdsourcing has been used to collect data at scale in numerous fields. Triplet similarity comparison is a type of crowdsourcing task, in which crowd workers are asked the question ``among three given objects, which two are more…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Xiaotian Lu , Jiyi Li , Koh Takeuchi , Hisashi Kashima

Learning embedding functions, which map semantically related inputs to nearby locations in a feature space supports a variety of classification and information retrieval tasks. In this work, we propose a novel, generalizable and fast method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Hong Xuan , Richard Souvenir , Robert Pless

Embedding models are central to dense retrieval, semantic search, and recommendation systems, but their size often makes them impractical to deploy in resource-constrained environments such as browsers or edge devices. While smaller…

A key characteristic of deep recommendation models is the immense memory requirements of their embedding tables. These embedding tables can often reach hundreds of gigabytes which increases hardware requirements and training cost. A common…

Despite significant recent advances in the field of face recognition, implementing face verification and recognition efficiently at scale presents serious challenges to current approaches. In this paper we present a system, called FaceNet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Florian Schroff , Dmitry Kalenichenko , James Philbin

Knowledge graphs are useful for many artificial intelligence tasks but often have missing data. Hence, a method for completing knowledge graphs is required. Existing approaches include embedding models, the Path Ranking Algorithm, and rule…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Takuma Ebisu , Ryutaro Ichise

Multimodal federated learning in real-world settings often encounters incomplete and heterogeneous data across clients. This results in misaligned local feature representations that limit the effectiveness of model aggregation. Unlike prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Duong M. Nguyen , Trong Nghia Hoang , Thanh Trung Huynh , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Phi Le Nguyen

As a crucial component of most modern deep recommender systems, feature embedding maps high-dimensional sparse user/item features into low-dimensional dense embeddings. However, these embeddings are usually assigned a unified dimension,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Liang Qu , Yonghong Ye , Ningzhi Tang , Lixin Zhang , Yuhui Shi , Hongzhi Yin

Deep metric learning is often used to learn an embedding function that captures the semantic differences within a dataset. A key factor in many problem domains is how this embedding generalizes to new classes of data. In observing many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Xiaotong Liu , Hong Xuan , Zeyu Zhang , Abby Stylianou , Robert Pless

Despite the prominence of neural network approaches in the field of recommender systems, simple methods such as matrix factorization with quadratic loss are still used in industry for several reasons. These models can be trained with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Dmitrii Beloborodov , Andrei Zimovnov , Petr Molodyk , Dmitrii Kirillov