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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

Recently, click-through rate (CTR) prediction models have evolved from shallow methods to deep neural networks. Most deep CTR models follow an Embedding\&MLP paradigm, that is, first mapping discrete id features, e.g. user visited items,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-26 Guorui Zhou , Kailun Wu , Weijie Bian , Zhao Yang , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Kun Gai

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays as a core function module in various personalized online services. The traditional ID-based models for CTR prediction take as inputs the one-hot encoded ID features of tabular modality, which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Hangyu Wang , Jianghao Lin , Xiangyang Li , Bo Chen , Chenxu Zhu , Ruiming Tang , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

Predicting click-through rates (CTR) is a fundamental task for Web applications, where a key issue is to devise effective models for feature interactions. Current methodologies predominantly concentrate on modeling feature interactions…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Yushen Li , Jinpeng Wang , Tao Dai , Jieming Zhu , Jun Yuan , Rui Zhang , Shu-Tao Xia

Recent studies on Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction has reached new levels by modeling longer user behavior sequences. Among others, the two-stage methods stand out as the state-of-the-art (SOTA) solution for industrial applications. The…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Qiwei Chen , Yue Xu , Changhua Pei , Shanshan Lv , Tao Zhuang , Junfeng Ge

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a critical task in online advertising systems. Models like Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are simple but stateless. They consider each target ad independently and cannot directly extract useful…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Wentao Ouyang , Xiuwu Zhang , Shukui Ren , Li Li , Zhaojie Liu , Yanlong Du

Predicting the probability that a user will click on a specific advertisement has been a prevalent issue in online advertising, attracting much research attention in the past decades. As a hot research frontier driven by industrial needs,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Yanwu Yang , Panyu Zhai

Users' clicks on Web search results are one of the key signals for evaluating and improving web search quality and have been widely used as part of current state-of-the-art Learning-To-Rank(LTR) models. With a large volume of search logs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Jianghong Zhou , Sayyed M. Zahiri , Simon Hughes , Khalifeh Al Jadda , Surya Kallumadi , Eugene Agichtein

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays an important role in online advertising and recommender systems. In practice, the training of CTR models depends on click data which is intrinsically biased towards higher positions since higher…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Jianqiang Huang , Ke Hu , Qingtao Tang , Mingjian Chen , Yi Qi , Jia Cheng , Jun Lei

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

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays a pivotal role in online advertising and recommender systems. Despite notable progress in modeling user preferences from historical behaviors, two key challenges persist. First, exsiting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Kesha Ou , Zhen Tian , Wayne Xin Zhao , Hongyu Lu , Ji-Rong Wen

Sequential Recommendation (SR) task involves predicting the next item a user is likely to interact with, given their past interactions. The SR models examine the sequence of a user's actions to discern more complex behavioral patterns and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Wujiang Xu , Qitian Wu , Zujie Liang , Jiaojiao Han , Xuying Ning , Yunxiao Shi , Wenfang Lin , Yongfeng Zhang

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction, a core task in recommendation systems, aims to estimate the probability of users clicking on items. Existing models predominantly follow a discriminative paradigm, which relies heavily on explicit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Mingjia Yin , Junwei Pan , Hao Wang , Ximei Wang , Shangyu Zhang , Jie Jiang , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a critical task in recommendation systems, serving as the ultimate filtering step to sort items for a user. Most recent cutting-edge methods primarily focus on investigating complex implicit and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Song-Li Wu , Liang Du , Jia-Qi Yang , Yu-Ai Wang , De-Chuan Zhan , Shuang Zhao , Zi-Xun Sun

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a critical task in online advertising systems. Most existing methods mainly model the feature-CTR relationship and suffer from the data sparsity issue. In this paper, we propose DeepMCP, which models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Wentao Ouyang , Xiuwu Zhang , Shukui Ren , Chao Qi , Zhaojie Liu , Yanlong Du

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

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) in E-commerce platforms aim to recommend items to users via multiple conversational interactions. Click-through rate (CTR) prediction models are commonly used for ranking candidate items. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Chi-Man Wong , Fan Feng , Wen Zhang , Chi-Man Vong , Hui Chen , Yichi Zhang , Peng He , Huan Chen , Kun Zhao , Huajun Chen

Advertising text plays a critical role in determining click-through rates (CTR) in online advertising. Large Language Models (LLMs) offer significant efficiency advantages over manual ad text creation. However, LLM-generated ad texts do not…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yanda Chen , Zihui Ren , Qixiang Gao , Jiale Chen , Si Chen , Xubin Li , Tiezheng Ge , Bo Zheng

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

In recommendation systems, predicting Click-Through Rate (CTR) is crucial for accurately matching users with items. To improve recommendation performance for cold-start and long-tail items, recent studies focus on leveraging item multimodal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yining Yao , Ziwei Li , Shuwen Xiao , Boya Du , Jialin Zhu , Junjun Zheng , Xiangheng Kong , Yuning Jiang