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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

Recommender System (RS) is an important online application that affects billions of users every day. The mainstream RS ranking framework is composed of two parts: a Multi-Task Learning model (MTL) that predicts various user feedback, i.e.,…

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Life-long user behavior modeling, i.e., extracting a user's hidden interests from rich historical behaviors in months or even years, plays a central role in modern CTR prediction systems. Conventional algorithms mostly follow two cascading…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Jianxin Chang , Chenbin Zhang , Zhiyi Fu , Xiaoxue Zang , Lin Guan , Jing Lu , Yiqun Hui , Dewei Leng , Yanan Niu , Yang Song , Kun Gai

Neural architecture search (NAS) methods aim to automatically find the optimal deep neural network (DNN) architecture as measured by a given objective function, typically some combination of task accuracy and inference efficiency. For many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Ravi Krishna , Aravind Kalaiah , Bichen Wu , Maxim Naumov , Dheevatsa Mudigere , Misha Smelyanskiy , Kurt Keutzer

Existing advertisements click-through rate (CTR) prediction models are mainly dependent on behavior ID features, which are learned based on the historical user-ad interactions. Nevertheless, behavior ID features relying on historical user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Tan Yu , Zhipeng Jin , Jie Liu , Yi Yang , Hongliang Fei , Ping Li

While recommender systems (RSs) traditionally rely on extensive individual user data, regulatory and technological shifts necessitate reliance on aggregated user information. This shift significantly impacts the recommendation process,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Gur Keinan , Omer Ben-Porat

Click-through rate (CTR) is a key signal of relevance for search engine results, both organic and sponsored. CTR of a result has two core components: (a) the probability of examination of a result by a user, and (b) the perceived relevance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Muhammad Asiful Islam , Ramakrishnan Srikant , Sugato Basu

Memory-augmented LLM agents have advanced personalized recommendation, yet existing approaches universally adopt flat memory representations that conflate ephemeral signals with stable preferences, and none provides a complete lifecycle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Xiang Shen , Yuhang Zhou , Yifan Wu , Zhuokai Zhao , Siyu Lin , Lei Huang , Qianqian Zhong , Lizhu Zhang , Benyu Zhang , Xiangjun Fan , Hong Yan

In this paper, we introduce Star+, a novel multi-domain model for click-through rate (CTR) prediction inspired by the Star model. Traditional single-domain approaches and existing multi-task learning techniques face challenges in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Çağrı Yeşil , Kaya Turgut

Online travel platforms (OTPs), e.g., Ctrip.com or Fliggy.com, can effectively provide travel-related products or services to users. In this paper, we focus on the multi-scenario click-through rate (CTR) prediction, i.e., training a unified…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Peilin Chen , Hong Wen , Jing Zhang , Fuyu Lv , Zhao Li , Qijie Shen , Wanjie Tao , Ying Zhou , Chao Zhang

Diverse and enriched data sources are essential for commercial ads-recommendation models to accurately assess user interest both before and after engagement with content. While extended user-engagement histories can improve the prediction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Sohini Roychowdhury , Doris Wang , Qian Ge , Joy Mu , Srihari Reddy

In the recommender system of Meituan Waimai, we are dealing with ever-lengthening user behavior sequences, which pose an increasing challenge to modeling user preference effectively. Existing sequential recommendation models often fail to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Zhichao Feng , Junjiie Xie , Kaiyuan Li , Yu Qin , Pengfei Wang , Qianzhong Li , Bin Yin , Xiang Li , Wei Lin , Shangguang Wang

E-commerce app users exhibit behaviors that are inherently logically consistent. A series of multi-scenario user behaviors interconnect to form the scene-level all-domain user moveline, which ultimately reveals the user's true intention.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chen Gao , Zixin Zhao , Lv Shao , Tong Liu

In many applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) drives tool use and function calling by embedding the (user) queries and matching them to pre-specified tool/function descriptions. In this paper, we address an embedding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yu Pan , Xiaocheng Li , Hanzhao Wang

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) capture user preference through textual information in dialogues. However, they suffer from data sparsity on two fronts: the dialogue space is vast and linguistically diverse, while the item space…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Sixiao Zhang , Mingrui Liu , Cheng Long , Wei Yuan , Hongxu Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Hongzhi Yin

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction plays an important role in many industrial applications, such as online advertising and recommender systems. How to capture users' dynamic and evolving interests from their behavior sequences remains a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Yufei Feng , Fuyu Lv , Weichen Shen , Menghan Wang , Fei Sun , Yu Zhu , Keping Yang

In modern search systems, search engines often suggest relevant queries to users through various panels or components, helping refine their information needs. Traditionally, these recommendations heavily rely on historical search logs to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Erxue Min , Hsiu-Yuan Huang , Xihong Yang , Min Yang , Xin Jia , Yunfang Wu , Hengyi Cai , Junfeng Wang , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin

Unbiased CLTR requires click propensities to compensate for the difference between user clicks and true relevance of search results via IPS. Current propensity estimation methods assume that user click behavior follows the PBM and estimate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Ali Vardasbi , Maarten de Rijke , Ilya Markov

Conversational recommendation system (CRS) is emerging as a user-friendly way to capture users' dynamic preferences over candidate items and attributes. Multi-shot CRS is designed to make recommendations multiple times until the user either…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Yinan Zhang , Boyang Li , Yong Liu , You Yuan , Chunyan Miao

Accurately predicting click-through rates (CTR) under stringent privacy constraints poses profound challenges, particularly when user-item interactions are sparse and fragmented across domains. Conventional cross-domain CTR (CCTR) methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Jiangcheng Qin , Xueyuan Zhang , Baisong Liu , Jiangbo Qian , Yangyang Wang