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Generative retrieval methods utilize generative sequential modeling techniques, such as transformers, to generate candidate items for recommender systems. These methods have demonstrated promising results in academic benchmarks, surpassing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Prabhat Agarwal , Anirudhan Badrinath , Laksh Bhasin , Jaewon Yang , Edoardo Botta , Jiajing Xu , Charles Rosenberg

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial area of research in online advertising. While binary cross entropy (BCE) has been widely used as the optimization objective for treating CTR prediction as a binary classification problem,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zhutian Lin , Junwei Pan , Shangyu Zhang , Ximei Wang , Xi Xiao , Shudong Huang , Lei Xiao , Jie Jiang

Accurate click-through rate (CTR) prediction is vital for online advertising and recommendation systems. Recent deep learning advancements have improved the ability to capture feature interactions and understand user interests. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Kefan Wang , Hao Wang , Kenan Song , Wei Guo , Kai Cheng , Zhi Li , Yong Liu , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Accurate, fair, and explainable allocation of candidates to roles represents a fundamental challenge across multiple domains including corporate hiring, academic admissions, fellowship awards, and volunteer placement systems. Current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Rishi Ashish Shah , Shivaay Dhondiyal , Kartik Sharma , Sukriti Talwar , Saksham Jain , Sparsh Jain

Sequential recommendation aims at understanding user preference by capturing successive behavior correlations, which are usually represented as the item purchasing sequences based on their past interactions. Existing efforts generally…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yifang Qin , Wei Ju , Hongjun Wu , Xiao Luo , Ming Zhang

Industrial ranking systems, such as advertising systems, rank items by aggregating multiple objectives into one final objective to satisfy user demand and commercial intent. Cascade architecture, composed of retrieval, pre-ranking, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Siyu Gu , Xiangrong Sheng

These years much effort has been devoted to improving the accuracy or relevance of the recommendation system. Diversity, a crucial factor which measures the dissimilarity among the recommended items, received rather little scrutiny.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Yu Zheng , Chen Gao , Liang Chen , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

The traditional recommendation systems mainly use offline user data to train offline models, and then recommend items for online users, thus suffering from the unreliable estimation of user preferences based on sparse and noisy historical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Mengyuan Zhao , Xiaowen Huang , Lixi Zhu , Jitao Sang , Jian Yu

ChatGPT has achieved remarkable success in natural language understanding. Considering that recommendation is indeed a conversation between users and the system with items as words, which has similar underlying pattern with ChatGPT, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yabin Zhang , Wenhui Yu , Erhan Zhang , Xu Chen , Lantao Hu , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

In modern commercial systems, including Recommendation, Ranking, and E-Commerce platforms, there is a trend towards improving customer experiences by incorporating Personalization context as input into Large Language Models (LLMs). However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jiarui Zhang

This paper introduces a novel approach to Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) by leveraging the concept of contextuality to enhance the identification and classification of categories in unlabeled datasets. Drawing inspiration from human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Tingzhang Luo , Mingxuan Du , Jiatao Shi , Xinxiang Chen , Bingchen Zhao , Shaoguang Huang

Ranking is a core task in recommender systems, which aims at providing an ordered list of items to users. Typically, a ranking function is learned from the labeled dataset to optimize the global performance, which produces a ranking score…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Changhua Pei , Yi Zhang , Yongfeng Zhang , Fei Sun , Xiao Lin , Hanxiao Sun , Jian Wu , Peng Jiang , Wenwu Ou

Temporal collaborative filtering (TCF) methods aim at modelling non-static aspects behind recommender systems, such as the dynamics in users' preferences and social trends around items. State-of-the-art TCF methods employ recurrent neural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Esther Rodrigo Bonet , Duc Minh Nguyen , Nikos Deligiannis

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

Recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence have introduced groundbreaking approaches to innovating next-generation semantic communication, which prioritizes conveying the meaning of a message rather than merely transmitting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Achintha Wijesinghe , Weiwei Wang , Suchinthaka Wanninayaka , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

Semantic segmentation is an important task for numerous applications but it is still quite challenging to achieve advanced performance with limited computational costs. In this paper, we present CGRSeg, an efficient yet competitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Zhenliang Ni , Xinghao Chen , Yingjie Zhai , Yehui Tang , Yunhe Wang

Sample-and-rank is a key decoding strategy for modern generation-based dialogue systems. It helps achieve diverse and high-quality responses by selecting an answer from a small pool of generated candidates. The current state-of-the-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chiyu Song , Hongliang He , Haofei Yu , Pengfei Fang , Leyang Cui , Zhenzhong Lan

Generative recommendation is emerging as a powerful paradigm that directly generates item predictions, moving beyond traditional matching-based approaches. However, current methods face two key challenges: token-item misalignment, where…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Chang Liu , Yimeng Bai , Xiaoyan Zhao , Yang Zhang , Fuli Feng , Wenge Rong

Ranking is a crucial module using in the recommender system. In particular, the ranking module using in our YoungTao recommendation scenario is to provide an ordered list of items to users, to maximize the click number throughout the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Shaowei Liu , Yangjun Liu

Contextually Entangled Gradient Mapping (CEGM) introduces a new approach to gradient optimization, redefining the relationship between contextual embeddings and gradient updates to enhance semantic coherence and reasoning capabilities in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Colin Sisate , Alistair Goldfinch , Vincent Waterstone , Sebastian Kingsley , Mariana Blackthorn