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Efficiently scaling industrial Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction has recently attracted significant research attention. Existing approaches typically employ early aggregation of user behaviors to maintain efficiency. However, such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Mingyang Liu , Yong Bai , Zhangming Chan , Sishuo Chen , Xiang-Rong Sheng , Han Zhu , Jian Xu , Xinyang Chen

This paper introduces a novel approach for click-through rate (CTR) prediction within industrial recommender systems, addressing the inherent challenges of numerical imbalance and geometric asymmetry. These challenges stem from imbalanced…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Beyza Turkmen , Ramazan Tarik Turksoy , Hasan Saribas , Hakan Cevikalp

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction becomes indispensable in ubiquitous web recommendation applications. Nevertheless, the current methods are struggling under the cold-start scenarios where the user interactions are extremely sparse. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Yujie Pan , Jiangchao Yao , Bo Han , Kunyang Jia , Ya Zhang , Hongxia Yang

In Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction, the long behavior sequence, comprising the user's long period of historical interactions with items has a vital influence on assessing the user's interest in the candidate item. Existing approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Zhuoxing Wei , Qi Liu , Qingchen Xie

The evolution of previous Click-Through Rate (CTR) models has mainly been driven by proposing complex components, whether shallow or deep, that are adept at modeling feature interactions. However, there has been less focus on improving…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Kexin Zhang , Fuyuan Lyu , Xing Tang , Dugang Liu , Chen Ma , Kaize Ding , Xiuqiang He , Xue Liu

Click-through rate prediction is a critical task in online advertising. Currently, many existing methods attempt to extract user potential interests from historical click behavior sequences. However, it is difficult to handle sparse user…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Wensen Jiang , Yizhu Jiao , Qingqin Wang , Chuanming Liang , Lijie Guo , Yao Zhang , Zhijun Sun , Yun Xiong , Yangyong Zhu

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction holds paramount significance in online advertising and recommendation scenarios. Despite the proliferation of recent CTR prediction models, the improvements in performance have remained limited, as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zirui Zhu , Yong Liu , Zangwei Zheng , Huifeng Guo , Yang You

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays an indispensable role in online platforms. Numerous models have been proposed to capture users' shifting preferences by leveraging user behavior sequences. However, these historical sequences often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Junjie Huang , Guohao Cai , Jieming Zhu , Zhenhua Dong , Ruiming Tang , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become powerful tools in modeling graph-structured data in recommender systems. However, real-life recommendation scenarios usually involve heterogeneous relationships (e.g., social-aware user influence,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Mengru Chen , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Wei Wei , Yong Xu , Ronghua Luo

Modeling high-order feature interactions is crucial for click-through rate (CTR) prediction, yet traditional approaches typically predefine a maximum interaction order and exhaustively enumerate feature combinations up to that order. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Yunxiao Shi , Wujiang Xu , Haimin Zhang , Qiang Wu , Min Xu

In sequential CTR prediction, a central design question is at what granularity the target should interact with the user behaviour sequence. Existing models mainly follow two routes. Raw-item architectures such as DIN let the target score…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yuan Wang , Yue Liu , Jun Zhang , Jie Jiang

Recommendation system algorithm based on multi-task learning (MTL) is the major method for Internet operators to understand users and predict their behaviors in the multi-behavior scenario of platform. Task correlation is an important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Menglin Kong , Ri Su , Shaojie Zhao , Muzhou Hou

Click-through rate(CTR) prediction is a core task in cost-per-click(CPC) advertising systems and has been studied extensively by machine learning practitioners. While many existing methods have been successfully deployed in practice, most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Ke Hu , Yi Qi , Jianqiang Huang , Jia Cheng , Jun Lei

In the recommendation systems, there are multiple business domains to meet the diverse interests and needs of users, and the click-through rate(CTR) of each domain can be quite different, which leads to the demand for CTR prediction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Wei Zhang , Pengye Zhang , Bo Zhang , Xingxing Wang , Dong Wang

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction has become an essential task in digital industries, such as digital advertising or online shopping. Many deep learning-based methods have been implemented and have become state-of-the-art models in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Ibrahim Can Yilmaz , Said Aldemir

This research designs a unified architecture of CTR prediction benchmark (Bench-CTR) platform that offers flexible interfaces with datasets and components of a wide range of CTR prediction models. Moreover, we construct a comprehensive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shan Gao , Yanwu Yang

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction serves as a cornerstone of recommender systems. Despite the strong performance of current CTR models based on user behavior modeling, they are still severely limited by interaction sparsity, especially in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yutian Xiao , Shukuan Wang , Binhao Wang , Zhao Zhang , Yanze Zhang , Shanqi Liu , Chao Feng , Xiang Li , Fuzhen Zhuang

Recommendation system plays an important role in online web applications. Sequential recommender further models user short-term preference through exploiting information from latest user-item interaction history. Most of the sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Ye Tao , Can Wang , Lina Yao , Weimin Li , Yonghong Yu

Online travel platforms (OTPs), e.g., Ctrip.com or Fliggy.com, can effectively provide travel-related products or services to users. In this paper, we focus on the multi-scenario click-through rate (CTR) prediction, i.e., training a unified…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Peilin Chen , Hong Wen , Jing Zhang , Fuyu Lv , Zhao Li , Qijie Shen , Wanjie Tao , Ying Zhou , Chao Zhang

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