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Click-through rate (CTR) models in advertising and recommendation systems rely heavily on item ID embeddings, which struggle in item cold-start settings. We present IDProxy, a solution that leverages multimodal large language models (MLLMs)…

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In display advertising, predicting the conversion rate (CVR), meaning the probability that a user takes a predefined action on an advertiser's website, is a fundamental task for estimating the value of displaying an advertisement to a user.…

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Next basket recommendation, which aims to predict the next a few items that a user most probably purchases given his historical transactions, plays a vital role in market basket analysis. From the viewpoint of item, an item could be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Jingxuan Yang , Jun Xu , Jianzhuo Tong , Sheng Gao , Jun Guo , Jirong Wen

Extracting expressive visual features is crucial for accurate Click-Through-Rate (CTR) prediction in visual search advertising systems. Current commercial systems use off-the-shelf visual encoders to facilitate fast online service. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Si Chen , Chen Lin , Wanxian Guan , Jiayi Wei , Xingyuan Bu , He Guo , Hui Li , Xubin Li , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is critical for industrial recommender systems, where most deep CTR models follow an Embedding \& Feature Interaction paradigm. However, the majority of methods focus on designing network architectures to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Huifeng Guo , Bo Chen , Ruiming Tang , Weinan Zhang , Zhenguo Li , Xiuqiang He

Common click-through rate (CTR) prediction recommender models tend to exhibit feature-level bias, which leads to unfair recommendations among item groups and inaccurate recommendations for users. While existing methods address this issue by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Jinqiu Jin , Sihao Ding , Wenjie Wang , Fuli Feng

Embedding tables are usually huge in click-through rate (CTR) prediction models. To train and deploy the CTR models efficiently and economically, it is necessary to compress their embedding tables at the training stage. To this end, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Shiwei Li , Huifeng Guo , Lu Hou , Wei Zhang , Xing Tang , Ruiming Tang , Rui Zhang , Ruixuan Li

Advertising is critical to many online e-commerce platforms such as e-Bay and Amazon. One of the important signals that these platforms rely upon is the click-through rate (CTR) prediction. The recent popularity of multi-modal sharing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Li He , Hongxu Chen , Dingxian Wang , Jameel Shoaib , Philip Yu , Guandong Xu

Personalized news recommendation aims to provide attractive articles for readers by predicting their likelihood of clicking on a certain article. To accurately predict this probability, plenty of studies have been proposed that actively…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Sungmin Cho , Hongjun Lim , Keunchan Park , Sungjoo Yoo , Eunhyeok Park

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is one of the core tasks in recommender systems (RS). It predicts a personalized click probability for each user-item pair. Recently, researchers have found that the performance of CTR model can be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Qiwei Chen , Changhua Pei , Shanshan Lv , Chao Li , Junfeng Ge , Wenwu Ou

Recent advancements in diffusion models have shown promising results in sequential recommendation (SR). Existing approaches predominantly rely on implicit conditional diffusion models, which compress user behaviors into a single…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Hongtao Huang , Chengkai Huang , Tong Yu , Xiaojun Chang , Wen Hu , Julian McAuley , Lina Yao

User historical behaviors are proved useful for Click Through Rate (CTR) prediction in online advertising system. In Meituan, one of the largest e-commerce platform in China, an item is typically displayed with its image and whether a user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Xin Chen , Qingtao Tang , Ke Hu , Yue Xu , Shihang Qiu , Jia Cheng , Jun Lei

Efficiently scaling industrial Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction has recently attracted significant research attention. Existing approaches typically employ early aggregation of user behaviors to maintain efficiency. However, such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Mingyang Liu , Yong Bai , Zhangming Chan , Sishuo Chen , Xiang-Rong Sheng , Han Zhu , Jian Xu , Xinyang Chen

The increasing availability and diversity of multimodal data in recommender systems offer new avenues for enhancing recommendation accuracy and user satisfaction. However, these systems must contend with high-dimensional, sparse user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Yasser Khalafaoui , Martino Lovisetto , Basarab Matei , Nistor Grozavu

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction, which models behavior sequence and non-sequential features (e.g., user/item profiles or cross features) to infer user interest, underpins industrial recommender systems. However, most methods face three…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Shuwei Chen , Jiajun Cui , Zhengqi Xu , Fan Zhang , Jiangke Fan , Teng Zhang , 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

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has significantly advanced large language models (LLMs) by grounding their outputs in external tools and knowledge sources. However, existing RAG systems are typically constrained to static, single-turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jubin Abhishek Soni , Amit Anand , Rajesh Kumar Pandey , Aniket Abhishek Soni

With the evergrowing sizes of pre-trained models (PTMs), it has been an emerging practice to only provide the inference APIs for users, namely model-as-a-service (MaaS) setting. To adapt PTMs with model parameters frozen, most current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Ganqu Cui , Wentao Li , Ning Ding , Longtao Huang , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is of great importance in recommendation systems and online advertising platforms. When served in industrial scenarios, the user-generated data observed by the CTR model typically arrives as a stream.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Congcong Liu , Fei Teng , Xiwei Zhao , Zhangang Lin , Jinghe Hu , Jingping Shao

We present LiRank, a large-scale ranking framework at LinkedIn that brings to production state-of-the-art modeling architectures and optimization methods. We unveil several modeling improvements, including Residual DCN, which adds attention…