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Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Kamelia Aryafar , Devin Guillory , Liangjie Hong

Extracting expressive visual features is crucial for accurate Click-Through-Rate (CTR) prediction in visual search advertising systems. Current commercial systems use off-the-shelf visual encoders to facilitate fast online service. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Si Chen , Chen Lin , Wanxian Guan , Jiayi Wei , Xingyuan Bu , He Guo , Hui Li , Xubin Li , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a vital task in industrial recommendation systems. Most existing methods focus on the network architecture design of the CTR model for better accuracy and suffer from the data sparsity problem.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Qi Liu , Xuyang Hou , Defu Lian , Zhe Wang , Haoran Jin , Jia Cheng , Jun Lei

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

The prediction of click-through rate (CTR) is crucial for industrial applications, such as online advertising. AUC is a commonly used evaluation indicator for CTR models. For advertising platforms, online performance is generally evaluated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Zhaocheng Liu , Guangxue Yin

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

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) addresses the data sparsity and cold-start problems in the target domain by leveraging knowledge from data-rich source domains. However, existing CDR methods often rely on domain-specific features or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chunxu Zhang , Shanqiang Huang , Zijian Zhang , Jiahong Liu , Linsong Yu , Ruiqi Wan , Bo Yang , Irwin King

Click-based learning to rank (LTR) tackles the mismatch between click frequencies on items and their actual relevance. The approach of previous work has been to assume a model of click behavior and to subsequently introduce a method for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Harrie Oosterhuis

For better user experience and business effectiveness, Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction has been one of the most important tasks in E-commerce. Although extensive CTR prediction models have been proposed, learning good representation of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Xiang Li , Chao Wang , Jiwei Tan , Xiaoyi Zeng , Dan Ou , Bo Zheng

Traditional recommendation systems are faced with two long-standing obstacles, namely, data sparsity and cold-start problems, which promote the emergence and development of Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR). The core idea of CDR is to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Tianzi Zang , Yanmin Zhu , Haobing Liu , Ruohan Zhang , Jiadi Yu

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays an important role in online advertising and recommendation systems, which aims at estimating the probability of a user clicking on a specific item. Feature interaction modeling and user interest…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Zuowu Zheng , Changwang Zhang , Xiaofeng Gao , Guihai Chen

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

With the proliferation of social media platforms and e-commerce sites, several cross-domain collaborative filtering strategies have been recently introduced to transfer the knowledge of user preferences across domains. The main challenge of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Dimitrios Rafailidis

In recommendation scenarios, there are two long-standing challenges, i.e., selection bias and data sparsity, which lead to a significant drop in prediction accuracy for both Click-Through Rate (CTR) and post-click Conversion Rate (CVR)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Feng Zhu , Mingjie Zhong , Xinxing Yang , Longfei Li , Lu Yu , Tiehua Zhang , Jun Zhou , Chaochao Chen , Fei Wu , Guanfeng Liu , Yan Wang

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

Traditional industrial recommenders are usually trained on a single business domain and then serve for this domain. However, in large commercial platforms, it is often the case that the recommenders need to make click-through rate (CTR)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Xiang-Rong Sheng , Liqin Zhao , Guorui Zhou , Xinyao Ding , Binding Dai , Qiang Luo , Siran Yang , Jingshan Lv , Chi Zhang , Hongbo Deng , Xiaoqiang Zhu

Click-Through Rate prediction aims to predict the ratio of clicks to impressions of a specific link. This is a challenging task since (1) there are usually categorical features, and the inputs will be extremely high-dimensional if one-hot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Qiuqiang Lin , Chuanhou Gao

Cross domain recommender systems have been increasingly valuable for helping consumers identify the most satisfying items from different categories. However, previously proposed cross-domain models did not take into account bidirectional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Pan Li , Alexander Tuzhilin

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) methods are proposed to tackle the sparsity problem in click through rate (CTR) estimation. Existing CDR methods directly transfer knowledge from the source domains to the target domain and ignore the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Ke Xu , Ziliang Wang , Wei Zheng , Yuhao Ma , Chenglin Wang , Nengxue Jiang , Cai Cao

Predicting the click-through rate of an advertisement is a critical component of online advertising platforms. In sponsored search, the click-through rate estimates the probability that a displayed advertisement is clicked by a user after…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-10 Bora Edizel , Amin Mantrach , Xiao Bai