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Click-through rate (CTR) Prediction is a crucial task in personalized information retrievals, such as industrial recommender systems, online advertising, and web search. Most existing CTR Prediction models utilize explicit feature…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Honghao Li , Lei Sang , Yi Zhang , Xuyun Zhang , Yiwen Zhang

User behavior sequence modeling, which captures user interest from rich historical interactions, is pivotal for industrial recommendation systems. Despite breakthroughs in ranking-stage models capable of leveraging ultra-long behavior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yue Meng , Cheng Guo , Xiaohui Hu , Honghu Deng , Yi Cao , Tong Liu , Bo Zheng

Large-scale pre-training has fundamentally changed how machine learning research is done today: large foundation models are trained once, and then can be used by anyone in the community (including those without data or compute resources to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Chongyi Zheng , Seohong Park , Sergey Levine , Benjamin Eysenbach

Predicting fine-grained interests of users with temporal behavior is important to personalization and information filtering applications. However, existing interest prediction methods are incapable of capturing the subtle degreed user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Tong Chen , Lin Wu , Yang Wang , Jun Zhang , Hongxu Chen , Xue Li

For better user satisfaction and business effectiveness, more and more attention has been paid to the sequence-based recommendation system, which is used to infer the evolution of users' dynamic preferences, and recent studies have noticed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Zhi Bian , Shaojun Zhou , Hao Fu , Qihong Yang , Zhenqi Sun , Junjie Tang , Guiquan Liu , Kaikui Liu , Xiaolong Li

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is a core task in online personalization platform. A key step for CTR prediction is to learn accurate user representation to capture their interests. Generally, the interest expressed by a user is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Xian-Jin Gui

Understanding user interests is crucial for Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction tasks. In sequential recommendation, pre-training from user historical behaviors through self-supervised learning can better comprehend user dynamic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ruidong Han , Qianzhong Li , He Jiang , Rui Li , Yurou Zhao , Xiang Li , Wei Lin

Estimating click-through rate (CTR) accurately has an essential impact on improving user experience and revenue in sponsored search. For CTR prediction model, it is necessary to make out user real-time search intention. Most of the current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Feng Li , Zhenrui Chen , Pengjie Wang , Yi Ren , Di Zhang , Xiaoyu Zhu

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Qijie Shen , Hong Wen , Jing Zhang , Qi Rao

Capturing the temporal dynamics of user preferences over items is important for recommendation. Existing methods mainly assume that all time steps in user-item interaction history are equally relevant to recommendation, which however does…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Wenjie Pei , Jie Yang , Zhu Sun , Jie Zhang , Alessandro Bozzon , David M. J. Tax

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

User behavior sequences in modern recommendation systems exhibit significant length heterogeneity, ranging from sparse short-term interactions to rich long-term histories. While longer sequences provide more context, we observe that…

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Promotions are becoming more important and prevalent in e-commerce to attract customers and boost sales, leading to frequent changes of occasions, which drives users to behave differently. In such situations, most existing Click-Through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Xiaofeng Pan , Yibin Shen , Jing Zhang , Xu He , Yang Huang , Hong Wen , Chengjun Mao , Bo Cao

In many classical e-commerce platforms, personalized recommendation has been proven to be of great business value, which can improve user satisfaction and increase the revenue of platforms. In this paper, we present a new recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Qijie Shen , Hong Wen , Wanjie Tao , Jing Zhang , Fuyu Lv , Zulong Chen , Zhao Li

Sequential recommender systems aim to predict a user's future interests by extracting temporal patterns from their behavioral history. Existing approaches typically employ transformer-based architectures to process long sequences of user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Adamya Shyam , Venkateswara Rao Kagita , Bharti Rana , Vikas Kumar

Industrial recommender systems increasingly leverage lifelong user behavior histories and rich multi-modal content to capture evolving user preferences. However, effectively integrating multi-modal features into lifelong interest modeling…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yaqian Zhang , Ruyi Yu , Tianyi Li , Bohan Liu , Maoquan Ye , Ke Wang , Shifeng Wen , Junwei Pan , Lijie Wang , Qi Zhou , Yeshou Cai , Chengguo Yin , Lifeng Wang , Hui Li , Lei Xiao , Haijie Gu

Recommendation systems aim to learn user interests from historical behaviors and deliver relevant items. Recent methods leverage large language models (LLMs) to construct and integrate semantic representations of users and items for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xiaofei Zhu , Jinfei Chen , Feiyang Yuan , Zhou Yang

Multi-interest recommendation has gained attention, especially in industrial retrieval stage. Unlike classical dual-tower methods, it generates multiple user representations instead of a single one to model comprehensive user interests.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Zhibo Wu , Yunfan Wu , Quan Liu , Lin Jiang , Ping Yang , Yao Hu

In order to improve the accuracy of cross-platform advertisement recommendation, a graph neural network (GNN)- based advertisement recommendation method is analyzed. Through multi-dimensional modeling, user behavior data (e.g., click…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Xiang Li , Xinyu Wang , Yifan Lin

Generative Retrieval (GR) offers a promising paradigm for recommendation through next-token prediction (NTP). However, scaling it to large-scale industrial systems introduces three challenges: (i) within a single request, the identical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yanyan Zou , Junbo Qi , Lunsong Huang , Yu Li , Kewei Xu , Jiabao Gao , Binglei Zhao , Xuanhua Yang , Sulong Xu , Shengjie Li