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Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Binglei Zhao , Houying Qi , Guang Xu , Mian Ma , Xiwei Zhao , Feng Mei , Sulong Xu , Jinghe Hu

In large-scale ranking systems, cascading architectures have been widely adopted to achieve a balance between efficiency and effectiveness. The pre-ranking module plays a vital role in selecting a subset of candidates for the subsequent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-18 YaChen Yan , Liubo Li

In real-world search, recommendation, and advertising systems, the multi-stage ranking architecture is commonly adopted. Such architecture usually consists of matching, pre-ranking, ranking, and re-ranking stages. In the pre-ranking stage,…

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In the realm of search systems, multi-stage cascade architecture is a prevalent method, typically consisting of sequential modules such as matching, pre-ranking, and ranking. It is generally acknowledged that the model used in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Qihang Zhao , Rui-jie Zhu , Liu Yang , He Yongming , Bo Zhou , Luo Cheng

Industrial ranking systems, such as advertising systems, rank items by aggregating multiple objectives into one final objective to satisfy user demand and commercial intent. Cascade architecture, composed of retrieval, pre-ranking, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Siyu Gu , Xiangrong Sheng

Multi-stage cascade architecture exists widely in many industrial systems such as recommender systems and online advertising, which often consists of sequential modules including matching, pre-ranking, ranking, etc. For a long time, it is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Zhe Wang , Liqin Zhao , Biye Jiang , Guorui Zhou , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Kun Gai

Large-scale recommendations commonly adopt a multi-stage cascading ranking system paradigm to balance effectiveness and efficiency. Early Stage Ranking (ESR) systems utilize the "user-item decoupling" approach, where independently learned…

Modern industrial advertising systems commonly employ Multi-stage Cascading Architectures (MCA) to balance computational efficiency with ranking accuracy. However, this approach presents two fundamental challenges: (1) performance…

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The pre-ranking stage plays a pivotal role in large-scale recommender systems but faces an intrinsic trade-off between model expressiveness and computational efficiency. Owing to the massive candidate pool and strict latency constraints,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Yutian Xiao , Meng Yuan , Fuzhen Zhuang , Wei Chen , Shukuan Wang , Shanqi Liu , Chao Feng , Wenhui Yu , Xiang Li , Lantao Hu , Han Li , Zhao Zhang

Cascading architecture has been widely adopted in large-scale advertising systems to balance efficiency and effectiveness. In this architecture, the pre-ranking model is expected to be a lightweight approximation of the ranking model, which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Zhishan Zhao , Jingyue Gao , Yu Zhang , Shuguang Han , Siyuan Lou , Xiang-Rong Sheng , Zhe Wang , Han Zhu , Yuning Jiang , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng

Large-scale online recommender system spreads all over the Internet being in charge of two basic tasks: Click-Through Rate (CTR) and Post-Click Conversion Rate (CVR) estimations. However, traditional CVR estimators suffer from well-known…

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Modern retrieval systems do not rely on a single ranking model to construct their rankings. Instead, they generally take a cascading approach where a sequence of ranking models are applied in multiple re-ranking stages. Thereby, they…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Harrie Oosterhuis , Rolf Jagerman , Zhen Qin , Xuanhui Wang

An emerging recipe for achieving state-of-the-art effectiveness in neural document re-ranking involves utilizing large pre-trained language models - e.g., BERT - to evaluate all individual passages in the document and then aggregating the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Sebastian Hofstätter , Bhaskar Mitra , Hamed Zamani , Nick Craswell , Allan Hanbury

Dividing ads ranking system into retrieval, early, and final stages is a common practice in large scale ads recommendation to balance the efficiency and accuracy. The early stage ranking often uses efficient models to generate candidates…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Xuewei Wang , Qiang Jin , Shengyu Huang , Min Zhang , Xi Liu , Zhengli Zhao , Yukun Chen , Zhengyu Zhang , Jiyan Yang , Ellie Wen , Sagar Chordia , Wenlin Chen , Qin Huang

Cross-market recommendation aims to recommend products to users in a resource-scarce target market by leveraging user behaviors from similar rich-resource markets, which is crucial for E-commerce companies but receives less research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Zeyuan Chen , He Wang , Xiangyu Zhu , Haiyan Wu , Congcong Gu , Shumeng Liu , Jinchao Huang , Wei Zhang

In the network literature, a wide range of statistical models has been proposed to exploit structural patterns in the data. Therefore, model selection between different models is a fundamental problem. However, there remains a lack of…

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An automatic machine learning (AutoML) task is to select the best algorithm and its hyper-parameters simultaneously. Previously, the hyper-parameters of all algorithms are joint as a single search space, which is not only huge but also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Yi-Qi Hu , Yang Yu , Jun-Da Liao

Recommender system is an essential part of online services, especially for e-commerce platform. Conversion Rate (CVR) prediction in RS plays a significant role in optimizing Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) goal of e-commerce. However, CVR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Shanshan Lyu , Qiwei Chen , Tao Zhuang , Junfeng Ge

Accurate estimation of post-click conversion rate is critical for building recommender systems, which has long been confronted with sample selection bias and data sparsity issues. Methods in the Entire Space Multi-task Model (ESMM) family…

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Effective credit risk management is fundamental to financial decision-making, requiring robust models to predict default probabilities and classify financial entities. Traditional machine learning approaches face significant challenges when…

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