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Generative models (e.g., GANs, diffusion models) learn the underlying data distribution in an unsupervised manner. However, many applications of interest require sampling from a particular region of the output space or sampling evenly over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Chen Henry Wu , Saman Motamed , Shaunak Srivastava , Fernando De la Torre

The controllable generation of diffusion models aims to steer the model to generate samples that optimize some given objective functions. It is desirable for a variety of applications including image generation, molecule generation, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Owen Oertell , Shikun Sun , Yiding Chen , Jin Peng Zhou , Zhiyong Wang , Wen Sun

In the medical field, the limited availability of large-scale datasets and labor-intensive annotation processes hinder the performance of deep models. Diffusion-based generative augmentation approaches present a promising solution to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Xinrui Zhou , Yuhao Huang , Haoran Dou , Shijing Chen , Ao Chang , Jia Liu , Weiran Long , Jian Zheng , Erjiao Xu , Jie Ren , Alejandro F. Frangi , Ruobing Huang , Jun Cheng , Xiaomeng Li , Wufeng Xue , Dong Ni

In the era of information explosion, Recommender Systems (RS) are essential for alleviating information overload and providing personalized user experiences. Recent advances in diffusion-based generative recommenders have shown promise in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chengyi Liu , Xiao Chen , Shijie Wang , Wenqi Fan , Qing Li

In this paper, we propose the first framework that enables solving graph learning tasks of all levels (node, edge and graph) and all types (generation, regression and classification) using one formulation. We first formulate prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Cai Zhou , Xiyuan Wang , Muhan Zhang

Most of the existing methods for debaising in click-through rate (CTR) prediction depend on an oversimplified assumption, i.e., the click probability is the product of observation probability and relevance probability. However, since there…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Wenjie Chu , Shen Li , Chao Chen , Longfei Xu , Hengbin Cui , Kaikui Liu

In feeds recommendation, the first step is candidate generation. Most of the candidate generation models are based on CTR estimation, which do not consider user's satisfaction with the clicked item. Items with low quality but attractive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Zhong Zhao , Yanmei Fu , Hanming Liang , Li Ma , Guangyao Zhao , Hongwei Jiang

The generative priors of pre-trained latent diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated great potential to enhance the visual quality of image super-resolution (SR) results. However, the noise sampling process in DMs introduces randomness in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Lingchen Sun , Rongyuan Wu , Jie Liang , Zhengqiang Zhang , Hongwei Yong , Lei Zhang

Cross domain recommender system constitutes a powerful method to tackle the cold-start and sparsity problem by aggregating and transferring user preferences across multiple category domains. Therefore, it has great potential to improve…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Pan Li , Zhichao Jiang , Maofei Que , Yao Hu , Alexander Tuzhilin

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction of advertisements on online social network platforms to optimize advertising is of much interest. Prior works build machine learning models that take a user-centric approach in terms of training -- using…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Nathaniel Hudson , Hana Khamfroush , Brent Harrison , Adam Craig

Diffusion models generate realistic visual content, yet often fail to produce rare but plausible compositions. When prompted with combinations that are valid but underrepresented in training data, such as a snowy beach or a rainbow at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Taewon Kang , Matthias Zwicker

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction aims to predict the probability that the user will click an item, which has been one of the key tasks in online recommender and advertising systems. In such systems, rich user behavior (viz. long- and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Huinan Sun , Guangliang Yu , Pengye Zhang , Bo Zhang , Xingxing Wang , Dong Wang

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

Diffusion models (DMs) represent state-of-the-art generative models for continuous inputs. DMs work by constructing a Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE) in the input space (ie, position space), and using a neural network to reverse it.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Tianrong Chen , Jiatao Gu , Laurent Dinh , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Joshua Susskind , Shuangfei Zhai

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 crucial for personalized online services. Sample-level retrieval-based models, such as RIM, have demonstrated remarkable performance. However, they face challenges including inference inefficiency and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Huanshuo Liu , Bo Chen , Menghui Zhu , Jianghao Lin , Jiarui Qin , Yang Yang , Hao Zhang , Ruiming Tang

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) image generation quality but suffer from high latency and memory inefficiency, making them difficult to deploy on resource-constrained devices. One major efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Haoran You , Connelly Barnes , Yuqian Zhou , Yan Kang , Zhenbang Du , Wei Zhou , Lingzhi Zhang , Yotam Nitzan , Xiaoyang Liu , Zhe Lin , Eli Shechtman , Sohrab Amirghodsi , Yingyan Celine Lin

In information retrieval (IR), learning-to-rank (LTR) methods have traditionally limited themselves to discriminative machine learning approaches that model the probability of the document being relevant to the query given some feature…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Sajad Ebrahimi , Bhaskar Mitra , Negar Arabzadeh , Ye Yuan , Haolun Wu , Fattane Zarrinkalam , Ebrahim Bagheri

Scaling Transformer-based click-through rate (CTR) models by stacking more parameters brings growing computational and storage overhead, creating a widening gap between scaling ambitions and the stringent industrial deployment constraints.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jiakai Tang , Runfeng Zhang , Weiqiu Wang , Yifei Liu , Chuan Wang , Xu Chen , Yeqiu Yang , Jian Wu , Yuning Jiang , Bo Zheng

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