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Estimating Click-Through Rate (CTR) is a vital yet challenging task in personalized product search. However, existing CTR methods still struggle in the product search settings due to the following three challenges including how to more…

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User modeling plays a fundamental role in industrial recommender systems, either in the matching stage and the ranking stage, in terms of both the customer experience and business revenue. How to extract users' multiple interests…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jiaxuan Xie , Jianxiong Wei , Qingsong Hua , Yu Zhang

Sequential recommendation models often struggle to capture latent periodic patterns in user interests, primarily due to the noise inherent in time-domain behavioral data. While frequency-domain analysis offers a global perspective to…

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Industrial recommendation systems are typically composed of multiple stages, including retrieval, ranking, and blending. The retrieval stage plays a critical role in generating a high-recall set of candidate items that covers a wide range…

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Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction, estimating the probability of a user clicking on an item, is essential in industrial applications, such as online advertising. Many works focus on user behavior modeling to improve CTR prediction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Xuyang Hou , Zhe Wang , Qi Liu , Tan Qu , Jia Cheng , Jun Lei

Industrial recommender systems usually consist of the matching stage and the ranking stage, in order to handle the billion-scale of users and items. The matching stage retrieves candidate items relevant to user interests, while the ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Chao Li , Zhiyuan Liu , Mengmeng Wu , Yuchi Xu , Pipei Huang , Huan Zhao , Guoliang Kang , Qiwei Chen , Wei Li , Dik Lun Lee

Traditional recommender systems are typically passive in that they try to adapt their recommendations to the user's historical interests. However, it is highly desirable for commercial applications, such as e-commerce, advertisement…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Haoren Zhu , Hao Ge , Xiaodong Gu , Pengfei Zhao , Dik Lun Lee

Sequential recommendation, a critical task in recommendation systems, predicts the next user action based on the understanding of the user's historical behaviors. Conventional studies mainly focus on cross-behavior modeling with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Zhen Gong , Zhifang Fan , Hui Lu , Qiwei Chen , Chenbin Zhang , Lin Guan , Yuchao Zheng , Feng Zhang , Xiao Yang , Zuotao Liu

Building robust online content recommendation systems requires learning complex interactions between user preferences and content features. The field has evolved rapidly in recent years from traditional multi-arm bandit and collaborative…

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Last year has witnessed the considerable interest of Large Language Models (LLMs) for their potential applications in recommender systems, which may mitigate the persistent issue of data sparsity. Though large efforts have been made for…

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Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in natural language understanding and generation. Their potential for deeper user understanding and improved personalized user experience on recommendation platforms is,…

Effectively modeling the dynamic nature of user preferences is crucial for enhancing recommendation accuracy and fostering transparency in recommender systems. Traditional user profiling often overlooks the distinction between transitory…

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Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is one of the core tasks in recommender systems. User behavior sequences, as one of the most effective features, can accurately reflect user preferences and significantly improve prediction accuracy.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xiaolong Chen , Haoyi Zhao , Xu Huang , Defu Lian

Capturing users' precise preferences is a fundamental problem in large-scale recommender system. Currently, item-based Collaborative Filtering (CF) methods are common matching approaches in industry. However, they are not effective to model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Fuyu Lv , Taiwei Jin , Changlong Yu , Fei Sun , Quan Lin , Keping Yang , Wilfred Ng

CTR (Click-Through Rate) prediction, crucial for recommender systems and online advertising, etc., has been confirmed to benefit from modeling long-term user behaviors. Nonetheless, the vast number of behaviors and complexity of noise…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Weijiang Lai , Beihong Jin , Yapeng Zhang , Yiyuan Zheng , Rui Zhao , Jian Dong , Jun Lei , Xingxing Wang

Precise user modeling is critical for online personalized recommendation services. Generally, users' interests are diverse and are not limited to a single aspect, which is particularly evident when their behaviors are observed for a longer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Jianxun Lian , Iyad Batal , Zheng Liu , Akshay Soni , Eun Yong Kang , Yajun Wang , Xing Xie

Social recommendation has emerged to leverage social connections among users for predicting users' unknown preferences, which could alleviate the data sparsity issue in collaborative filtering based recommendation. Early approaches relied…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Le Wu , Junwei Li , Peijie Sun , Richang Hong , Yong Ge , Meng Wang

User behavior modeling is a key technique for recommender systems. However, most methods focus on head users with large-scale interactions and hence suffer from data sparsity issues. Several solutions integrate side information such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Lifang Deng , Jin Niu , Angulia Yang , Qidi Xu , Xiang Fu , Jiandong Zhang , Anxiang Zeng

With the rapid development of E-commerce and the increase in the quantity of items, users are presented with more items hence their interests broaden. It is increasingly difficult to model user intentions with traditional methods, which…

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