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Publications (6)

cs.IR2025

InterFormer: Effective Heterogeneous Interaction Learning for Click-Through Rate Prediction

Zhichen Zeng, Xiaolong Liu, Mengyue Hang +25

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction, which predicts the probability of a user clicking an ad, is a fundamental task in recommender systems. The emergence of heterogeneous informati…

cs.LG2025

Fair Concurrent Training of Multiple Models in Federated Learning

Marie Siew, Haoran Zhang, Jong-Ik Park +6

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative learning across multiple clients. In most FL work, all clients train a single learning task. However, the recent proliferation of FL a…

cs.LG2026

ROCS: Request-Oriented Compute Sharing for Efficient Large-Scale Recommendation

Yuxin Chen, Liang Luo, Buyun Zhang +44

The paper introduces ROCS, a request-oriented compute sharing framework that restructures recommendation inference to evaluate shared request features once per request rather than…

#recommendation#inference optimization#compute sharing#large-scale systems
cs.DC2021

Network-Aware Optimization of Distributed Learning for Fog Computing

Su Wang, Yichen Ruan, Yuwei Tu +3

Fog computing promises to enable machine learning tasks to scale to large amounts of data by distributing processing across connected devices. Two key challenges to achieving this…

cs.LG2021

Towards Flexible Device Participation in Federated Learning

Yichen Ruan, Xiaoxi Zhang, Shu-Che Liang +1

Traditional federated learning algorithms impose strict requirements on the participation rates of devices, which limit the potential reach of federated learning. This paper extend…

cs.LG2022

FedSoft: Soft Clustered Federated Learning with Proximal Local Updating

Yichen Ruan, Carlee Joe-Wong

Traditionally, clustered federated learning groups clients with the same data distribution into a cluster, so that every client is uniquely associated with one data distribution an…