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Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays an important role in online advertising and recommendation systems, which aims at estimating the probability of a user clicking on a specific item. Feature interaction modeling and user interest…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Zuowu Zheng , Changwang Zhang , Xiaofeng Gao , Guihai Chen

The modeling of users' behaviors is crucial in modern recommendation systems. A lot of research focuses on modeling users' lifelong sequences, which can be extremely long and sometimes exceed thousands of items. These models use the target…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Kaiming Shen , Xichen Ding , Zixiang Zheng , Yuqi Gong , Qianqian Li , Zhongyi Liu , Guannan Zhang

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,…

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The click-through rate (CTR) reflects the ratio of clicks on a specific item to its total number of views. It has significant impact on websites' advertising revenue. Learning sophisticated models to understand and predict user behavior is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Amit Livne , Roy Dor , Eyal Mazuz , Tamar Didi , Bracha Shapira , Lior Rokach

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a critical task in online advertising systems. Models like Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are simple but stateless. They consider each target ad independently and cannot directly extract useful…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Wentao Ouyang , Xiuwu Zhang , Shukui Ren , Li Li , Zhaojie Liu , Yanlong Du

Understanding user interests is crucial for Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction tasks. In sequential recommendation, pre-training from user historical behaviors through self-supervised learning can better comprehend user dynamic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ruidong Han , Qianzhong Li , He Jiang , Rui Li , Yurou Zhao , Xiang Li , Wei Lin

While generative recommendations (GR) possess strong sequential reasoning capabilities, they face significant challenges when processing extremely long user behavior sequences: the high computational cost forces practical sequence lengths…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yu Zhou , Chengcheng Guo , Kuo Cai , Ji Liu , Qiang Luo , Ruiming Tang , Han Li , Kun Gai , Guorui Zhou

Scaling test-time compute has proven highly effective for language models, yet this opportunity remains largely unexplored for industrial Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction. CTR models suffer from a fundamental asymmetry: feature…

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

The two primary tasks in the search recommendation system are search relevance matching and click-through rate (CTR) prediction -- the former focuses on seeking relevant items for user queries whereas the latter forecasts which item may…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Rong Chen , Shuzhi Cao , Ailong He , Shuguang Han , Jufeng Chen

Recommendation systems aim to learn user interests from historical behaviors and deliver relevant items. Recent methods leverage large language models (LLMs) to construct and integrate semantic representations of users and items for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xiaofei Zhu , Jinfei Chen , Feiyang Yuan , Zhou Yang

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Zhuoxing Wei , Qi Liu , Qingchen Xie

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial task in online recommendation platforms as it involves estimating the probability of user engagement with advertisements or items by clicking on them. Given the availability of various…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Zichuan Fu , Xiangyang Li , Chuhan Wu , Yichao Wang , Kuicai Dong , Xiangyu Zhao , Mengchen Zhao , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang

In many classical e-commerce platforms, personalized recommendation has been proven to be of great business value, which can improve user satisfaction and increase the revenue of platforms. In this paper, we present a new recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Qijie Shen , Hong Wen , Wanjie Tao , Jing Zhang , Fuyu Lv , Zulong Chen , Zhao Li

In online advertising scenario, sellers often create multiple creatives to provide comprehensive demonstrations, making it essential to present the most appealing design to maximize the Click-Through Rate (CTR). However, sellers generally…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Hao Yang , Jianxin Yuan , Shuai Yang , Linhe Xu , Shuo Yuan , Yifan Zeng

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is crucial in recommendation and online advertising systems. Existing methods usually model user behaviors, while ignoring the informative context which influences the user to make a click decision, e.g.,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Xiang Li , Shuwei Chen , Jian Dong , Jin Zhang , Yongkang Wang , Xingxing Wang , Dong Wang

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction, which aims to predict the probability of a user clicking on an ad or an item, is critical to many online applications such as online advertising and recommender systems. The problem is very challenging…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Weiping Song , Chence Shi , Zhiping Xiao , Zhijian Duan , Yewen Xu , Ming Zhang , Jian Tang

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

Query reformulation is a well-known problem in Information Retrieval (IR) aimed at enhancing single search successful completion rate by automatically modifying user's input query. Recent methods leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Wonduk Seo , Haojie Zhang , Yueyang Zhang , Changhao Zhang , Songyao Duan , Lixin Su , Daiting Shi , Jiashu Zhao , Dawei Yin

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

Recent studies on Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction has reached new levels by modeling longer user behavior sequences. Among others, the two-stage methods stand out as the state-of-the-art (SOTA) solution for industrial applications. The…

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