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User behavior sequence modeling plays a significant role in Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction on e-commerce platforms. Except for the interacted items, user behaviors contain rich interaction information, such as the behavior type, time,…

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Click-through rate (CTR) prediction tasks typically estimate the probability of a user clicking on a candidate item by modeling both user behavior sequence features and the item's contextual features, where the user behavior sequence is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yi Xu , Chaofan Fan , Moyu Zhang , Jinxin Hu , Jiahao Wang , Hao Zhang , Shizhun Wang , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng

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

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

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

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction plays a core role in recommender systems, serving as the final-stage filter to rank items for a user. The key to addressing the CTR task is learning feature interactions that are useful for prediction,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Yang Zhang , Tianhao Shi , Fuli Feng , Wenjie Wang , Dingxian Wang , Xiangnan He , Yongdong Zhang

Generative models are increasingly being explored in click-through rate (CTR) prediction field to overcome the limitations of the conventional discriminative paradigm, which rely on a simple binary classification objective. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Moyu Zhang , Yujun Jin , Yun Chen , Jinxin Hu , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng

Click-through Rate (CTR) prediction is crucial for online personalization platforms. Recent advancements have shown that modeling rich user behaviors can significantly improve the performance of CTR prediction. Current long-term user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Xiang Xu , Hao Wang , Wei Guo , Luankang Zhang , Wanshan Yang , Runlong Yu , Yong Liu , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction, whose aim is to predict the probability of whether a user will click on an item, is an essential task for many online applications. Due to the nature of data sparsity and high dimensionality of CTR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Yichen Xu , Yanqiao Zhu , Feng Yu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu

Feature interaction has been recognized as an important problem in machine learning, which is also very essential for click-through rate (CTR) prediction tasks. In recent years, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) can automatically learn implicit…

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction plays an important role in many industrial applications, such as online advertising and recommender systems. How to capture users' dynamic and evolving interests from their behavior sequences remains a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Yufei Feng , Fuyu Lv , Weichen Shen , Menghan Wang , Fei Sun , Yu Zhu , Keping Yang

Click-through rate prediction is a critical task in online advertising. Currently, many existing methods attempt to extract user potential interests from historical click behavior sequences. However, it is difficult to handle sparse user…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Wensen Jiang , Yizhu Jiao , Qingqin Wang , Chuanming Liang , Lijie Guo , Yao Zhang , Zhijun Sun , Yun Xiong , Yangyong Zhu

Click-Through Rate prediction is an important task in recommender systems, which aims to estimate the probability of a user to click on a given item. Recently, many deep models have been proposed to learn low-order and high-order feature…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Bin Liu , Ruiming Tang , Yingzhi Chen , Jinkai Yu , Huifeng Guo , Yuzhou Zhang

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays as a core function module in various personalized online services. The traditional ID-based models for CTR prediction take as inputs the one-hot encoded ID features of tabular modality, which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Hangyu Wang , Jianghao Lin , Xiangyang Li , Bo Chen , Chenxu Zhu , Ruiming Tang , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

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

Most current click-through rate prediction(CTR)models create explicit or implicit high-order feature crosses through Hadamard product or inner product, with little attention to the importance of feature crossing; only few models are either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Hao Wang , Nao Li

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a critical task for many industrial systems, such as display advertising and recommender systems. Recently, modeling user behavior sequences attracts much attention and shows great improvements in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Yufei Feng , Fuyu Lv , Binbin Hu , Fei Sun , Kun Kuang , Yang Liu , Qingwen Liu , Wenwu Ou

In recommendation systems, new items are continuously introduced, initially lacking interaction records but gradually accumulating them over time. Accurately predicting the click-through rate (CTR) for these items is crucial for enhancing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yaqing Wang , Hongming Piao , Daxiang Dong , Quanming Yao , Jingbo Zhou

Advertising and feed ranking are essential to many Internet companies such as Facebook. Among many real-world advertising and feed ranking systems, click through rate (CTR) prediction plays a central role. In recent years, many neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Tongwen Huang , Qingyun She , Zhiqiang Wang , Junlin Zhang

Multi-behavior recommendation (MBR) has garnered growing attention recently due to its ability to mitigate the sparsity issue by inferring user preferences from various auxiliary behaviors to improve predictions for the target behavior.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Yabo Yin , Xiaofei Zhu , Wenshan Wang , Yihao Zhang , Pengfei Wang , Yixing Fan , Jiafeng Guo