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Publications (15)

cs.IR2026

Intelligent Elastic Feature Fading: Enabling Model Retrain-Free Feature Efficiency Rollouts at Scale

Jieming Di, Xiaoyu Chen, Ying She +21

Large-scale ranking systems depend on thousands of features derived from user behavior across multiple time horizons. Typically requires model retraining -- resulting in long itera…

cs.IR2025

Decoupled Entity Representation Learning for Pinterest Ads Ranking

Jie Liu, Yinrui Li, Jiankai Sun +12

In this paper, we introduce a novel framework following an upstream-downstream paradigm to construct user and item (Pin) embeddings from diverse data sources, which are essential f…

cs.IR2026

Fine-Tuned LLM as a Complementary Predictor Improving Ads System

Hui Yang, Daiwei He, Kevin Jiang +20

Recommendation systems power engagement and monetization across feeds, ads, and short-video platforms, but translating the latest advances in Large Language Models into Recommendat…

cs.LG2025

Privacy Preserving Conversion Modeling in Data Clean Room

Kungang Li, Xiangyi Chen, Ling Leng +3

In the realm of online advertising, accurately predicting the conversion rate (CVR) is crucial for enhancing advertising efficiency and user satisfaction. This paper addresses the…

cs.LG2025

On the Practice of Deep Hierarchical Ensemble Network for Ad Conversion Rate Prediction

Jinfeng Zhuang, Yinrui Li, Runze Su +14

The predictions of click through rate (CTR) and conversion rate (CVR) play a crucial role in the success of ad-recommendation systems. A Deep Hierarchical Ensemble Network (DHEN) h…

cs.IR2026

Synthetic Data from Cross-Domain Events for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems

Xiangyu Wang, Yawen He, Shivendra Pratap Singh +12

Large-scale recommendation systems operate across diverse domains, yet they face the challenges of data sparsity and noisy implicit feedback. Traditional approaches mitigate this v…