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User interests manifest a dynamic pattern within the course of a day, e.g., a user usually favors soft music at 8 a.m. but may turn to ambient music at 10 p.m. To model dynamic interests in a day, hour embedding is widely used in…

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In sequential CTR prediction, a central design question is at what granularity the target should interact with the user behaviour sequence. Existing models mainly follow two routes. Raw-item architectures such as DIN let the target score…

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In Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction, the long behavior sequence, comprising the user's long period of historical interactions with items has a vital influence on assessing the user's interest in the candidate item. Existing approaches…

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