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Click-through Rate (CTR) prediction in real-world recommender systems often deals with billions of user interactions every day. To improve the training efficiency, it is common to update the CTR prediction model incrementally using the new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Zhikai Wang , Yanyan Shen , Zibin Zhang , Kangyi Lin

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction holds a paramount position in recommender systems. The prevailing ID-based paradigm underperforms in cold-start scenarios due to the skewed distribution of feature frequency. Additionally, the utilization…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Xingmei Wang , Weiwen Liu , Xiaolong Chen , Qi Liu , Xu Huang , Yichao Wang , Xiangyang Li , Yasheng Wang , Zhenhua Dong , Defu Lian , Ruiming Tang

Natural content and advertisement coexist in industrial recommendation systems but differ in data distribution. Concretely, traffic related to the advertisement is considerably sparser compared to that of natural content, which motivates…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Qi Liu , Xingyuan Tang , Jianqiang Huang , Xiangqian Yu , Haoran Jin , Jin Chen , Yuanhao Pu , Defu Lian , Tan Qu , Zhe Wang , Jia Cheng , Jun Lei

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction, which aims to estimate the probability that a user will click an item, is an essential component of online advertising. Existing methods mainly attempt to mine user interests from users' historical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Erxue Min , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Yatao Bian , Peilin Zhao , Junzhou Huang , Da Luo , Kangyi Lin , Sophia Ananiadou

In modern social media, recommender systems (RecSys) rely on the click-through rate (CTR) as the standard metric to evaluate user engagement. CTR prediction is traditionally framed as a binary classification task to predict whether a user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Zhongyu Ouyang , Chunhui Zhang , Yaning Jia , Soroush Vosoughi

The click-through rate (CTR) prediction task is to predict whether a user will click on the recommended item. As mind-boggling amounts of data are produced online daily, accelerating CTR prediction model training is critical to ensuring an…

Many Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction works focused on designing advanced architectures to model complex feature interactions but neglected the importance of feature representation learning, e.g., adopting a plain embedding layer for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Fangye Wang , Yingxu Wang , Dongsheng Li , Hansu Gu , Tun Lu , Peng Zhang , Ning Gu

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

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is one of the core tasks in recommender systems (RS). It predicts a personalized click probability for each user-item pair. Recently, researchers have found that the performance of CTR model can be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Qiwei Chen , Changhua Pei , Shanshan Lv , Chao Li , Junfeng Ge , Wenwu Ou

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

Click-through rate (CTR) estimation is a fundamental task in personalized advertising and recommender systems and it's important for ranking models to effectively capture complex high-order features.Inspired by the success of ELMO and Bert…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Zhiqiang Wang , Qingyun She , PengTao Zhang , Junlin Zhang

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is one of the most important and challenging in calculating advertisements and recommendation systems. To build a machine learning system with these data, it is important to properly model the interaction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Dafang Zou , Leiming Zhang , Jiafa Mao , Weiguo Sheng

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays an important role in online advertising systems. On the one hand, traditional CTR prediction models capture the collaborative signals in tabular data via feature interaction modeling, but they lose…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Rui Dong , Wentao Ouyang , Xiangzheng Liu

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is a core task in nowadays commercial recommender systems. Feature crossing, as the mainline of research on CTR prediction, has shown a promising way to enhance predictive performance. Even though various…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Runlong Yu , Yuyang Ye , Qi Liu , Zihan Wang , Chunfeng Yang , Yucheng Hu , Enhong Chen

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction, whose aim is to predict the probability of whether a user will click on an item, is an essential task for many online applications. Due to the nature of data sparsity and high dimensionality of CTR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Yichen Xu , Yanqiao Zhu , Feng Yu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu

Effective feature interaction modeling is critical for enhancing the accuracy of click-through rate (CTR) prediction in industrial recommender systems. Most of the current deep CTR models resort to building complex network architectures to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Honghao Li , Qiuze Ru , Yiwen Zhang , Yi Zhang , Lei Sang , Yun Yang

Advertising click-through rate (CTR) prediction aims to forecast the probability that a user will click on an advertisement in a given context, thus providing enterprises with decision support for product ranking and ad placement. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xiaowei Xi , Song Leng , Yuqing Gong , Dalin Li

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction models are integral to a myriad of industrial settings, such as personalized search advertising. Current methods typically involve feature extraction from users' historical behavior sequences combined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Lingwei Kong , Lu Wang , Changping Peng , Zhangang Lin , Ching Law , Jingping Shao

Accurate click-through rate (CTR) prediction is vital for online advertising and recommendation systems. Recent deep learning advancements have improved the ability to capture feature interactions and understand user interests. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Kefan Wang , Hao Wang , Kenan Song , Wei Guo , Kai Cheng , Zhi Li , Yong Liu , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

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