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Precise user modeling is critical for online personalized recommendation services. Generally, users' interests are diverse and are not limited to a single aspect, which is particularly evident when their behaviors are observed for a longer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Jianxun Lian , Iyad Batal , Zheng Liu , Akshay Soni , Eun Yong Kang , Yajun Wang , Xing Xie

In search systems, effectively coordinating the two core objectives of search relevance matching and click-through rate (CTR) prediction is crucial for discovering users' interests and enhancing platform revenue. In our prior work PRECTR,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Shuzhi Cao , Rong Chen , Ailong He , Shuguang Han , Jufeng Chen

Predicting fine-grained interests of users with temporal behavior is important to personalization and information filtering applications. However, existing interest prediction methods are incapable of capturing the subtle degreed user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Tong Chen , Lin Wu , Yang Wang , Jun Zhang , Hongxu Chen , Xue Li

Industrial recommendation systems are typically composed of multiple stages, including retrieval, ranking, and blending. The retrieval stage plays a critical role in generating a high-recall set of candidate items that covers a wide range…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhibo Fan , Hongtao Lin , Haoyu Chen , Bowen Deng , Hedi Xia , Yuke Yan , James Li

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

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

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a core task in recommender systems. Existing methods (IDRec for short) rely on unique identities to represent distinct users and items that have prevailed for decades. On one hand, IDRec often faces…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Yuanbo Gao , Peng Lin , Dongyue Wang , Feng Mei , Xiwei Zhao , Sulong Xu , Jinghe Hu

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a critical task in online advertising and recommender systems, relying on effective modeling of feature interactions. Explicit interactions capture predefined relationships, such as inner products, but…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Kefan Wang , Hao Wang , Wei Guo , Yong Liu , Jianghao Lin , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Recommender systems are widely used to suggest engaging content, and Large Language Models (LLMs) have given rise to generative recommenders. Such systems can directly generate items, including for open-set tasks like question suggestion.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Lütfi Kerem Senel , Besnik Fetahu , Davis Yoshida , Zhiyu Chen , Giuseppe Castellucci , Nikhita Vedula , Jason Choi , Shervin Malmasi

Retrieving and extracting knowledge from extensive research documents and large databases presents significant challenges for researchers, students, and professionals in today's information-rich era. Existing retrieval systems, which rely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Mohammed-Khalil Ghali , Abdelrahman Farrag , Daehan Won , Yu Jin

Click-through rate(CTR) prediction is a core task in cost-per-click(CPC) advertising systems and has been studied extensively by machine learning practitioners. While many existing methods have been successfully deployed in practice, most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Ke Hu , Yi Qi , Jianqiang Huang , Jia Cheng , Jun Lei

With the advancement of multimedia internet, the impact of visual characteristics on the decision of users to click or not within the online retail industry is increasingly significant. Thus, incorporating visual features is a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Jia-Qi Yang , Chenglei Dai , Dan OU , Dongshuai Li , Ju Huang , De-Chuan Zhan , Xiaoyi Zeng , Yang Yang

Feature embedding learning and feature interaction modeling are two crucial components of deep models for Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction. Most existing deep CTR models suffer from the following three problems. First, feature…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Chenxu Zhu , Bo Chen , Weinan Zhang , Jincai Lai , Ruiming Tang , Xiuqiang He , Zhenguo Li , Yong Yu

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

Click through rate (CTR) prediction is very important for Native advertisement but also hard as there is no direct query intent. In this paper we propose a large-scale event embedding scheme to encode the each user browsing event by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Mehul Parsana , Krishna Poola , Yajun Wang , Zhiguang Wang

A large-scale industrial recommendation platform typically consists of multiple associated scenarios, requiring a unified click-through rate (CTR) prediction model to serve them simultaneously. Existing approaches for multi-scenario CTR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Xing Tang , Yang Qiao , Yuwen Fu , Fuyuan Lyu , Dugang Liu , Xiuqiang He

Natural content and advertisement coexist in industrial recommendation systems but differ in data distribution. Concretely, traffic related to the advertisement is considerably sparser compared to that of natural content, which motivates…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Qi Liu , Xingyuan Tang , Jianqiang Huang , Xiangqian Yu , Haoran Jin , Jin Chen , Yuanhao Pu , Defu Lian , Tan Qu , Zhe Wang , Jia Cheng , Jun Lei

Many existing industrial recommender systems are sensitive to the patterns of user-item engagement. Light users, who interact less frequently, correspond to a data sparsity problem, making it difficult for the system to accurately learn and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Hanjia Lyu , Hanqing Zeng , Yinglong Xia , Ren Chen , Jiebo Luo

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction of advertisements on online social network platforms to optimize advertising is of much interest. Prior works build machine learning models that take a user-centric approach in terms of training -- using…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Nathaniel Hudson , Hana Khamfroush , Brent Harrison , Adam Craig

Sequential recommender systems aim to predict a user's future interests by extracting temporal patterns from their behavioral history. Existing approaches typically employ transformer-based architectures to process long sequences of user…

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