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In this paper, we propose a theoretically founded sequential strategy for training large-scale Recommender Systems (RS) over implicit feedback, mainly in the form of clicks. The proposed approach consists in minimizing pairwise ranking loss…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Aleksandra Burashnikova , Marianne Clausel , Charlotte Laclau , Frack Iutzeller , Yury Maximov , Massih-Reza Amini

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) show strong visual perception, yet remain limited in reasoning about space under changing viewpoints. We study this challenge as Perspective-Conditioned Spatial Reasoning (PCSR) in 360-degree…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yuangong Chen , Wai Keung Wong , Jiaxing Li , Ioannis Patras , Xu Zheng

In this paper, we introduce Star+, a novel multi-domain model for click-through rate (CTR) prediction inspired by the Star model. Traditional single-domain approaches and existing multi-task learning techniques face challenges in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Çağrı Yeşil , Kaya Turgut

This work is dedicated to the study of how uncertainty estimation of the human motion prediction can be embedded into constrained optimization techniques, such as Model Predictive Control (MPC) for the social robot navigation. We propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Timur Akhtyamov , Aleksandr Kashirin , Aleksey Postnikov , Gonzalo Ferrer

A high number of electric vehicles (EVs) in the transportation sector necessitates an advanced scheduling framework for e-mobility ecosystem operation as a whole in order to overcome range anxiety and create a viable business model for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 Mahsa Bagheri Tookanlou , S. Ali Pourmousavi , Mousa Marzband

In this paper, we study multiple problems from sponsored product optimization in ad system, including position-based de-biasing, click-conversion multi-task learning, and calibration on predicted click-through-rate (pCTR). We propose a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Yanbing Xue , Bo Liu , Weizhi Du , Jayanth Korlimarla , Musen Men

Recommendation is a prevalent and critical service in information systems. To provide personalized suggestions to users, industry players embrace machine learning, more specifically, building predictive models based on the click behavior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Wenjie Wang , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He , Hanwang Zhang , Tat-Seng Chua

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays an important role in online advertising and recommender systems. In practice, the training of CTR models depends on click data which is intrinsically biased towards higher positions since higher…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Jianqiang Huang , Ke Hu , Qingtao Tang , Mingjian Chen , Yi Qi , Jia Cheng , Jun Lei

In many real-world problems, predictions are leveraged to monitor and control cyber-physical systems, demanding guarantees on the satisfaction of reliability and safety requirements. However, predictions are inherently uncertain, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Matteo Zecchin , Sangwoo Park , Osvaldo Simeone

In a large E-commerce platform, all the participants compete for impressions under the allocation mechanism of the platform. Existing methods mainly focus on the short-term return based on the current observations instead of the long-term…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Hua-Lin He , Chun-Xiang Pan , Qing Da , An-Xiang Zeng

In search systems, effectively coordinating the two core objectives of search relevance matching and click-through rate (CTR) prediction is crucial for discovering users' interests and enhancing platform revenue. In our prior work PRECTR,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Shuzhi Cao , Rong Chen , Ailong He , Shuguang Han , Jufeng Chen

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

In web search and recommendation systems, user clicks are widely used to train ranking models. However, click data is heavily biased, i.e., users tend to click higher-ranked items (position bias), choose only what was shown to them…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Haoming Gong , Qingyao Ai , Zhihao Tao , Yongfeng Zhang

Existing recommendation algorithms mostly focus on optimizing traditional recommendation measures, such as the accuracy of rating prediction in terms of RMSE or the quality of top-$k$ recommendation lists in terms of precision, recall, MAP,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Changhua Pei , Xinru Yang , Qing Cui , Xiao Lin , Fei Sun , Peng Jiang , Wenwu Ou , Yongfeng Zhang

Cross-domain sequential recommendation (CDSR) aims to uncover and transfer users' sequential preferences across multiple recommendation domains. While significant endeavors have been made, they primarily concentrated on developing advanced…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Mingjia Yin , Hao Wang , Wei Guo , Yong Liu , Zhi Li , Sirui Zhao , Zhen Wang , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Recently, click-through rate (CTR) prediction models have evolved from shallow methods to deep neural networks. Most deep CTR models follow an Embedding\&MLP paradigm, that is, first mapping discrete id features, e.g. user visited items,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-26 Guorui Zhou , Kailun Wu , Weijie Bian , Zhao Yang , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Kun Gai

Understanding user interests is crucial for Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction tasks. In sequential recommendation, pre-training from user historical behaviors through self-supervised learning can better comprehend user dynamic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ruidong Han , Qianzhong Li , He Jiang , Rui Li , Yurou Zhao , Xiang Li , Wei Lin

We consider the problem of risk-sensitive motion planning in the presence of randomly moving obstacles. To this end, we adopt a model predictive control (MPC) scheme and pose the obstacle avoidance constraint in the MPC problem as a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Anushri Dixit , Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Joel W. Burdick

Predicting the probability that a user will click on a specific advertisement has been a prevalent issue in online advertising, attracting much research attention in the past decades. As a hot research frontier driven by industrial needs,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Yanwu Yang , Panyu Zhai

Sales promotions, as short-term incentives to stimulate product purchases, play a pivotal role in modern e-commerce marketing strategies. During promotional events, user behavior patterns exhibit distinct characteristics compared to regular…

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