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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

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction, which aims to estimate the probability of a user clicking on an item, is a key task in online advertising. Numerous existing CTR models concentrate on modeling the feature interactions within a solitary…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zhen Tian , Changwang Zhang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen , Zhao Cao

Generative pre-training via discrete diffusion provides dense reconstruction supervision across all feature fields simultaneously, mitigating representation collapse from data sparsity in CTR prediction. However, all existing generative CTR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Moyu Zhang , Yun Chen , Yujun Jin , Jinxin Hu , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng

User intention which often changes dynamically is considered to be an important factor for modeling users in the design of recommendation systems. Recent studies are starting to focus on predicting user intention (what users want) beyond…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Arpita Chaudhuri , Debasis Samanta , Monalisa Sarma

Recommender systems take inputs from user history, use an internal ranking algorithm to generate results and possibly optimize this ranking based on feedback. However, often the recommender system is unaware of the actual intent of the user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Biswarup Bhattacharya , Iftikhar Burhanuddin , Abhilasha Sancheti , Kushal Satya

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated tremendous potential as the next-generation ranking-based recommendation system. Many recent works have shown that LLMs can significantly outperform conventional click-through-rate (CTR)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Allen Lin , Renqin Cai , Yun He , Hanchao Yu , Jing Qian , Rui Li , Qifan Wang , James Caverlee

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 User representations will become out-of-date and lead to inappropriate recommendations if user preference has shifted over time.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

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction serves as a cornerstone of recommender systems. Despite the strong performance of current CTR models based on user behavior modeling, they are still severely limited by interaction sparsity, especially in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yutian Xiao , Shukuan Wang , Binhao Wang , Zhao Zhang , Yanze Zhang , Shanqi Liu , Chao Feng , Xiang Li , Fuzhen Zhuang

Generative recommender systems are rapidly emerging as a new paradigm for recommendation, where collaborative identifiers and/or multi-modal content are mapped into discrete token spaces and user behavior is modelled with autoregressive…

Deep Candidate Generation plays an important role in large-scale recommender systems. It takes user history behaviors as inputs and learns user and item latent embeddings for candidate generation. In the literature, conventional methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Ningning Li , Qunwei Li , Xichen Ding , Shaohu Chen , Wenliang Zhong

Recommender systems aim to provide personalized item recommendations by capturing user behaviors derived from their interaction history. Considering that user interactions naturally occur sequentially based on users' intents in mind, user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yijin Choi , Chiehyeon Lim

Generative retrieval stands out as a promising new paradigm in text retrieval that aims to generate identifier strings of relevant passages as the retrieval target. This generative paradigm taps into powerful generative language models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yongqi Li , Nan Yang , Liang Wang , Furu Wei , Wenjie Li

This paper proposes new methods to enhance click-through rate (CTR) prediction models using the Deep Interest Network (DIN) model, specifically applied to the advertising system of Alibaba's Taobao platform. Unlike traditional deep learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Chang Zhou , Yang Zhao , Yuelin Zou , Jin Cao , Wenhan Fan , Yi Zhao , Chiyu Cheng

Prompts used in recent large language model based applications are often fixed and lengthy, leading to significant computational overhead. To address this challenge, we propose Generative Prompt Internalization (GenPI), a lightweight method…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Haebin Shin , Lei Ji , Yeyun Gong , Sungdong Kim , Eunbi Choi , Minjoon Seo

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction has been one of the most central problems in computational advertising. Lately, embedding techniques that produce low-dimensional representations of ad IDs drastically improve CTR prediction accuracies.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Feiyang Pan , Shuokai Li , Xiang Ao , Pingzhong Tang , Qing He

Conversational assistants are being progressively adopted by the general population. However, they are not capable of handling complicated information-seeking tasks that involve multiple turns of information exchange. Due to the limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Chen Qu , Liu Yang , Bruce Croft , Yongfeng Zhang , Johanne R. Trippas , Minghui Qiu

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

CTR (Click-Through Rate) prediction, crucial for recommender systems and online advertising, etc., has been confirmed to benefit from modeling long-term user behaviors. Nonetheless, the vast number of behaviors and complexity of noise…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Weijiang Lai , Beihong Jin , Yapeng Zhang , Yiyuan Zheng , Rui Zhao , Jian Dong , Jun Lei , Xingxing Wang

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

In modern recommender systems, CTR/CVR models are increasingly trained with ranking objectives to improve item ranking quality. While this shift aligns training more closely with serving goals, most existing methods rely on in-batch…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-17 YaChen Yan , Liubo Li , Ravi Choudhary