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This paper proposes new methods to enhance click-through rate (CTR) prediction models using the Deep Interest Network (DIN) model, specifically applied to the advertising system of Alibaba's Taobao platform. Unlike traditional deep learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Chang Zhou , Yang Zhao , Yuelin Zou , Jin Cao , Wenhan Fan , Yi Zhao , Chiyu Cheng

In this work, we investigate the online learning problem of revenue maximization in ad auctions, where the seller needs to learn the click-through rates (CTRs) of each ad candidate and charge the price of the winner through a pay-per-click…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zhe Feng , Christopher Liaw , Zixin Zhou

In online advertising, a set of potential advertisements can be ranked by a certain auction system where usually the top-1 advertisement would be selected and displayed at an advertising space. In this paper, we show a selection bias issue…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Shinya Suzumura , Hitoshi Abe

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is a fundamental technique in recommendation and advertising systems. Recent studies have shown that implementing multi-scenario recommendations contributes to strengthening information sharing and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jingtong Gao , Bo Chen , Menghui Zhu , Xiangyu Zhao , Xiaopeng Li , Yuhao Wang , Yichao Wang , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang

Unbiased learning to rank (ULTR) aims to mitigate various biases existing in user clicks, such as position bias, trust bias, presentation bias, and learn an effective ranker. In this paper, we introduce our winning approach for the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Lulu Yu , Yiting Wang , Xiaojie Sun , Keping Bi , Jiafeng Guo

Fairness is a popular research topic in recent years. A research topic closely related to fairness is bias and debiasing. Among different types of bias problems, position bias is one of the most widely encountered symptoms. Position bias…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Hao Wang

Recent advances in unbiased learning to rank (LTR) count on Inverse Propensity Scoring (IPS) to eliminate bias in implicit feedback. Though theoretically sound in correcting the bias introduced by treating clicked documents as relevant, IPS…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Nan Wang , Zhen Qin , Xuanhui Wang , Hongning Wang

Estimating click-through rate (CTR) accurately has an essential impact on improving user experience and revenue in sponsored search. For CTR prediction model, it is necessary to make out user real-time search intention. Most of the current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Feng Li , Zhenrui Chen , Pengjie Wang , Yi Ren , Di Zhang , Xiaoyu Zhu

Traditional online advertising systems for sponsored search follow a cascade paradigm with retrieval, pre-ranking,ranking, respectively. Constrained by strict requirements on online inference efficiency, it tend to be difficult to deploy…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Han Xu , Hao Qi , Kunyao Wang , Pei Wang , Guowei Zhang , Congcong Liu , Junsheng Jin , Xiwei Zhao , Zhangang Lin , Jinghe Hu , Jingping Shao

Unbiased CLTR requires click propensities to compensate for the difference between user clicks and true relevance of search results via IPS. Current propensity estimation methods assume that user click behavior follows the PBM and estimate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Ali Vardasbi , Maarten de Rijke , Ilya Markov

Predicting keywords performance, such as number of impressions, click-through rate (CTR), conversion rate (CVR), revenue per click (RPC), and cost per click (CPC), is critical for sponsored search in the online advertising industry. An…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-10 Yuan Yuan , Xiaojing Dong , Chen Dong , Yiwen Sun , Zhenyu Yan , Abhishek Pani

The Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction task is critical in industrial recommender systems, where models are usually deployed on dynamic streaming data in practical applications. Such streaming data in real-world recommender systems face…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Qi-Wei Wang , Hongyu Lu , Yu Chen , Da-Wei Zhou , De-Chuan Zhan , Ming Chen , Han-Jia Ye

Online recommendation services recommend multiple commodities to users. Nowadays, a considerable proportion of users visit e-commerce platforms by mobile devices. Due to the limited screen size of mobile devices, positions of items have a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Xu He , Bo An , Yanghua Li , Haikai Chen , Qingyu Guo , Xin Li , Zhirong Wang

Traditional click-through rate (CTR) prediction models convert the tabular data into one-hot vectors and leverage the collaborative relations among features for inferring the user's preference over items. This modeling paradigm discards…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Xiangyang Li , Bo Chen , Lu Hou , Ruiming Tang

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is a pivotal task in product and content recommendation, where learning effective feature embeddings is of great significance. However, traditional methods typically learn fixed feature representations…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Chen Zhu , Liang Du , Hong Chen , Shuang Zhao , Zixun Sun , Xin Wang , Wenwu Zhu

Ranking is at the core of many artificial intelligence (AI) applications, including search engines, recommender systems, etc. Modern ranking systems are often constructed with learning-to-rank (LTR) models built from user behavior signals.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Tao Yang , Cuize Han , Chen Luo , Parth Gupta , Jeff M. Phillips , Qingyao Ai

A well-known problem when learning from user clicks are inherent biases prevalent in the data, such as position or trust bias. Click models are a common method for extracting information from user clicks, such as document relevance in web…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Romain Deffayet , Philipp Hager , Jean-Michel Renders , Maarten de Rijke

Reranking improves recommendation quality by modeling item interactions. However, existing methods often decouple ranking and reranking, leading to weak listwise evaluation models that suffer from combinatorial sparsity and limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Guoxiao Zhang , Tan Qu , Ao Li , DongLin Ni , Qianlong Xie , Xingxing Wang

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a critical task for many applications, as its accuracy has a direct impact on user experience and platform revenue. In recent years, CTR prediction has been widely studied in both academia and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jieming Zhu , Jinyang Liu , Shuai Yang , Qi Zhang , Xiuqiang He

Additive two-tower models are popular learning-to-rank methods for handling biased user feedback in industry settings. Recent studies, however, report a concerning phenomenon: training two-tower models on clicks collected by well-performing…

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