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Feature generation is a critical step in machine learning, aiming to enhance model performance by capturing complex relationships within the data and generating meaningful new features. Traditional feature generation methods heavily rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Wanfu Gao , Zengyao Man , Zebin He , Yuhao Tang , Jun Gao , Kunpeng Liu

Transfer in Reinforcement Learning aims to improve learning performance on target tasks using knowledge from experienced source tasks. Successor Representations (SR) and their extension Successor Features (SF) are prominent transfer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Chris Reinke , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

A large-scale industrial recommendation platform typically consists of multiple associated scenarios, requiring a unified click-through rate (CTR) prediction model to serve them simultaneously. Existing approaches for multi-scenario CTR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Xing Tang , Yang Qiao , Yuwen Fu , Fuyuan Lyu , Dugang Liu , Xiuqiang He

In digital advertising, Click-Through Rate (CTR) and Conversion Rate (CVR) are very important metrics for evaluating ad performance. As a result, ad event prediction systems are vital and widely used for sponsored search and display…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Saeid Soheily Khah , Yiming Wu

Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) are undirected graphical models, a special case of which correspond to conditionally-trained finite state machines. A key advantage of these models is their great flexibility to include a wide array of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Andrew McCallum

Recommender systems easily face the issue of user preference shifts. User representations will become out-of-date and lead to inappropriate recommendations if user preference has shifted over time. To solve the issue, existing work focuses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Wenjie Wang , Xinyu Lin , Liuhui Wang , Fuli Feng , Yunshan Ma , Tat-Seng Chua

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) is crucial for improving recommendation accuracy and generalization, yet traditional methods are often hindered by the reliance on shared user/item IDs, which are unavailable in most real-world scenarios.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Peiyu Hu , Wayne Lu , Jia Wang

Click-through rate (CTR) estimation plays as a core function module in various personalized online services, including online advertising, recommender systems, and web search etc. From 2015, the success of deep learning started to benefit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Weinan Zhang , Jiarui Qin , Wei Guo , Ruiming Tang , Xiuqiang He

As an important modeling paradigm in click-through rate (CTR) prediction, the Deep & Cross Network (DCN) and its derivative models have gained widespread recognition primarily due to their success in a trade-off between computational cost…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Honghao Li , Yiwen Zhang , Yi Zhang , Hanwei Li , Lei Sang , Jieming Zhu

Recommender models aimed at mining users' behavioral patterns have raised great attention as one of the essential applications in daily life. Recent work on graph neural networks (GNNs) or debiasing methods has attained remarkable gains.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Xinfeng Wang , Fumiyo Fukumoto , Jin Cui , Yoshimi Suzuki , Jiyi Li , Dongjin Yu

This research presents an innovative and unique way of solving the advertisement prediction problem which is considered as a learning problem over the past several years. Online advertising is a multi-billion-dollar industry and is growing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Muhammad Junaid Effendi , Syed Abbas Ali

Multimodal click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a key technique in industrial recommender systems. It leverages heterogeneous modalities such as text, images, and behavioral logs to capture high-order feature interactions between users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Honghao Li , Hanwei Li , Jing Zhang , Yi Zhang , Ziniu Yu , Lei Sang , Yiwen Zhang

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

Click through rate (CTR) prediction of image ads is the core task of online display advertising systems, and logistic regression (LR) has been frequently applied as the prediction model. However, LR model lacks the ability of extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Junxuan Chen , Baigui Sun , Hao Li , Hongtao Lu , Xian-Sheng Hua

Feature transformation is to derive a new feature set from original features to augment the AI power of data. In many science domains such as material performance screening, while feature transformation can model material formula…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Wangyang Ying , Dongjie Wang , Xuanming Hu , Yuanchun Zhou , Charu C. Aggarwal , Yanjie Fu

Historical features are important in ads click-through rate (CTR) prediction, because they account for past engagements between users and ads. In this paper, we study how to efficiently construct historical features through counting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Hongjian Wang , Qi Li , Lanbo Zhang , Yue Lu , Steven Yoo , Srinivas Vadrevu , Zhenhui Li

Sequence feature embedding is a challenging task due to the unstructuredness of sequence, i.e., arbitrary strings of arbitrary length. Existing methods are efficient in extracting short-term dependencies but typically suffer from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-06 Chitta Ranjan , Samaneh Ebrahimi , Kamran Paynabar

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial component in the online advertising industry. In order to produce a personalized CTR prediction, an industry-level CTR prediction model commonly takes a high-dimensional (e.g., 100 or 1000…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Weijie Zhao , Xuewu Jiao , Mingqing Hu , Xiaoyun Li , Xiangyu Zhang , Ping Li

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial task in online recommendation platforms as it involves estimating the probability of user engagement with advertisements or items by clicking on them. Given the availability of various…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Zichuan Fu , Xiangyang Li , Chuhan Wu , Yichao Wang , Kuicai Dong , Xiangyu Zhao , Mengchen Zhao , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction tasks play a pivotal role in real-world applications, particularly in recommendation systems and online advertising. A significant research branch in this domain focuses on user behavior modeling. Current…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Hengyu Zhang , Junwei Pan , Dapeng Liu , Jie Jiang , Xiu Li