A comprehensive review of recommender systems: Transitioning from theory to practice

S Raza, M Rahman, S Kamawal, A Toroghi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recommender Systems (RS) play an integral role in enhancing user experiences by
providing personalized item suggestions. This survey reviews the progress in RS inclusively …

Final: Factorized interaction layer for ctr prediction

J Zhu, Q Jia, G Cai, Q Dai, J Li, Z Dong… - Proceedings of the 46th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Multi-layer perceptron (MLP) serves as a core component in many deep models for click-
through rate (CTR) prediction. However, vanilla MLP networks are inefficient in learning …

Ads recommendation in a collapsed and entangled world

J Pan, W Xue, X Wang, H Yu, X Liu, S Quan… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
We present Tencent's ads recommendation system and examine the challenges and
practices of learning appropriate recommendation representations. Our study begins by …

Towards deeper, lighter and interpretable cross network for ctr prediction

F Wang, H Gu, D Li, T Lu, P Zhang, N Gu - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Click Through Rate (CTR) prediction plays an essential role in recommender systems and
online advertising. It is crucial to effectively model feature interactions to improve the …

Understanding the ranking loss for recommendation with sparse user feedback

Z Lin, J Pan, S Zhang, X Wang, X Xiao… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial area of research in online advertising. While
binary cross entropy (BCE) has been widely used as the optimization objective for treating …

Exploiting field dependencies for learning on categorical data

Z Li, P Koniusz, L Zhang, DE Pagendam… - … on Pattern Analysis …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional approaches for learning on categorical data underexploit the dependencies
between columns (aka fields) in a dataset because they rely on the embedding of data …

On the Embedding Collapse when Scaling up Recommendation Models

X Guo, J Pan, X Wang, B Chen, J Jiang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent advances in deep foundation models have led to a promising trend of developing
large recommendation models to leverage vast amounts of available data. However, we …

AdaGIN: Adaptive Graph Interaction Network for Click-Through Rate Prediction

L Sang, H Li, Y Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Yang - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The goal of click-through rate (CTR) prediction in recommender systems is to effectively
work with input features. However, existing CTR prediction models face three main issues …

SimCEN: Simple Contrast-enhanced Network for CTR Prediction

H Li, L Sang, Y Zhang, Y Zhang - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is an essential component of industrial multimedia
recommendation, and the key to enhancing the accuracy of CTR prediction lies in the …

ReChorus2. 0: A Modular and Task-Flexible Recommendation Library

J Li, H Li, Z He, W Ma, P Sun, M Zhang… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
With the applications of recommendation systems rapidly expanding, an increasing number
of studies have focused on every aspect of recommender systems with different data inputs …