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Enabling robots to solve multiple manipulation tasks has a wide range of industrial applications. While learning-based approaches enjoy flexibility and generalizability, scaling these approaches to solve such compositional tasks remains a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Michael H. Lim , Andy Zeng , Brian Ichter , Maryam Bandari , Erwin Coumans , Claire Tomlin , Stefan Schaal , Aleksandra Faust

Precisely modeling user ultra-long sequences is critical for industrial recommender systems. Current approaches predominantly focus on leveraging ultra-long sequences in the ranking stage, whereas research for the candidate retrieval stage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Qin Ren , Zheng Chai , Xijun Xiao , Yuchao Zheng , Di Wu

Automation platforms aim to automate repetitive tasks using workflows, which start with a trigger and then perform a series of actions. However, with many possible actions, the user has to search for the desired action at each step, which…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Saksham Gupta , Gust Verbruggen , Mukul Singh , Sumit Gulwani , Vu Le

Industrial-scale recommender systems rely on a cascade pipeline in which the retrieval stage must return a high-recall candidate set from billions of items under tight latency. Existing solutions either (i) suffer from limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yijia Sun , Shanshan Huang , Zhiyuan Guan , Qiang Luo , Ruiming Tang , Kun Gai , Guorui Zhou

Industrial recommender systems have been growing increasingly complex, may involve \emph{diverse domains} such as e-commerce products and user-generated contents, and can comprise \emph{a myriad of tasks} such as retrieval, ranking,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Zeyu Cui , Jianxin Ma , Chang Zhou , Jingren Zhou , Hongxia Yang

Recommendation systems effectively guide users in locating their desired information within extensive content repositories. Generally, a recommendation model is optimized to enhance accuracy metrics from a user utility standpoint, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Xu Huang , Jianxun Lian , Hao Wang , Defu Lian , Xing Xie

Modeling ultra-long user behavior sequences is critical for capturing both long- and short-term preferences in industrial recommender systems. Existing solutions typically rely on two-stage retrieval or indirect modeling paradigms, incuring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Zheng Chai , Qin Ren , Xijun Xiao , Huizhi Yang , Bo Han , Sijun Zhang , Di Chen , Hui Lu , Wenlin Zhao , Lele Yu , Xionghang Xie , Shiru Ren , Xiang Sun , Yaocheng Tan , Peng Xu , Yuchao Zheng , Di Wu

In the landscape of Recommender System (RS) applications, reinforcement learning (RL) has recently emerged as a powerful tool, primarily due to its proficiency in optimizing long-term rewards. Nevertheless, it suffers from instability in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Ziru Liu , Shuchang Liu , Zijian Zhang , Qingpeng Cai , Xiangyu Zhao , Kesen Zhao , Lantao Hu , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

Personalized recommendation stands as a ubiquitous channel for users to explore information or items aligned with their interests. Nevertheless, prevailing recommendation models predominantly rely on unique IDs and categorical features for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Jieming Zhu , Chuhan Wu , Rui Zhang , Zhenhua Dong

Modeling user sequential behaviors has recently attracted increasing attention in the recommendation domain. Existing methods mostly assume coherent preference in the same sequence. However, user personalities are volatile and easily…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Weiqi Shao , Xu Chen , Long Xia , Jiashu Zhao , Dawei Yin

We address the challenge of optimizing meta-parameters (hyperparameters) in machine learning, a key factor for efficient training and high model performance. Rather than relying on expensive meta-parameter search methods, we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Arsalan Sharifnassab , Saber Salehkaleybar , Richard Sutton

Kuaishou serves over 400 million daily active users, processing hundreds of millions of search queries daily against a repository of tens of billions of short videos. As the final decision layer, the reranking stage determines user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Chao Zhang , Shuai Lin , ChengLei Dai , Ye Qian , Fan Mingyang , Yi Zhang , Yi Wang , Jingwei Zhuo

Transformers have become the dominant architecture across a wide range of domains, largely due to the effectiveness of multi-head attention in capturing diverse representation subspaces. However, standard multi-head attention activates all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Bilal Faye , Abdoulaye Mbaye , Hanane Azzag , Mustapha Lebbah

Short video applications have attracted billions of users in recent years, fulfilling their various needs with diverse content. Users usually watch short videos on many topics on mobile devices in a short period of time, and give explicit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Xudong Gong , Qinlin Feng , Yuan Zhang , Jiangling Qin , Weijie Ding , Biao Li , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

Understanding complex animal behaviors hinges on deciphering the neural activity patterns within brain circuits, making the ability to forecast neural activity crucial for developing predictive models of brain dynamics. This capability…

Recommendation systems (RecSys) are designed to connect users with relevant items from a vast pool of candidates while aligning with the business goals of the platform. A typical industrial RecSys is composed of two main stages, retrieval…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Chi Liu , Jiangxia Cao , Rui Huang , Kuo Cai , Weifeng Ding , Qiang Luo , Kun Gai , Guorui Zhou

Conversational retrieval refers to an information retrieval system that operates in an iterative and interactive manner, requiring the retrieval of various external resources, such as persona, knowledge, and even response, to effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Hongru Wang , Boyang Xue , Baohang Zhou , Rui Wang , Fei Mi , Weichao Wang , Yasheng Wang , Kam-Fai Wong

The recent success of Transformers in the language domain has motivated adapting it to a multimodal setting, where a new visual model is trained in tandem with an already pretrained language model. However, due to the excessive memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Sangho Lee , Youngjae Yu , Gunhee Kim , Thomas Breuel , Jan Kautz , Yale Song

The goal of recommender systems is to provide ordered item lists to users that best match their interests. As a critical task in the recommendation pipeline, re-ranking has received increasing attention in recent years. In contrast to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Yi Li , Jieming Zhu , Weiwen Liu , Liangcai Su , Guohao Cai , Qi Zhang , Ruiming Tang , Xi Xiao , Xiuqiang He

In continual learning, solving the catastrophic forgetting problem may make the models fall into the stability-plasticity dilemma. Moreover, inter-task confusion will also occur due to the lack of knowledge exchanges between different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sheng-Kai Huang , Jiun-Feng Chang , Chun-Rong Huang