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Publications (32)

cs.IR2023

An Incremental Update Framework for Online Recommenders with Data-Driven Prior

Chen Yang, Jin Chen, Qian Yu +10

Online recommenders have attained growing interest and created great revenue for businesses. Given numerous users and items, incremental update becomes a mainstream paradigm for le…

cs.IR2024

IA-GCN: Interactive Graph Convolutional Network for Recommendation

Yinan Zhang, Pei Wang, Congcong Liu +7

Recently, Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) has become a novel state-of-art for Collaborative Filtering (CF) based Recommender Systems (RS). It is a common practice to learn inform…

cs.CL2025

Multi-objective Aligned Bidword Generation Model for E-commerce Search Advertising

Zhenhui Liu, Chunyuan Yuan, Ming Pang +7

Retrieval systems primarily address the challenge of matching user queries with the most relevant advertisements, playing a crucial role in e-commerce search advertising. The diver…

cs.IR2021

Dynamic Parameterized Network for CTR Prediction

Jian Zhu, Congcong Liu, Pei Wang +6

Learning to capture feature relations effectively and efficiently is essential in click-through rate (CTR) prediction of modern recommendation systems. Most existing CTR prediction…

cs.IR2023

Parallel Ranking of Ads and Creatives in Real-Time Advertising Systems

Zhiguang Yang, Lu Wang, Chun Gan +7

"Creativity is the heart and soul of advertising services". Effective creatives can create a win-win scenario: advertisers can reach target users and achieve marketing objectives m…

cs.CL2025

A Semi-supervised Scalable Unified Framework for E-commerce Query Classification

Chunyuan Yuan, Chong Zhang, Zheng Fang +5

Query classification, including multiple subtasks such as intent and category prediction, is vital to e-commerce applications. E-commerce queries are usually short and lack context…

cs.CV2024

Relation-Aware Diffusion Model for Controllable Poster Layout Generation

Fengheng Li, An Liu, Wei Feng +8

Poster layout is a crucial aspect of poster design. Prior methods primarily focus on the correlation between visual content and graphic elements. However, a pleasant layout should…

cs.CL2024

A Semi-supervised Multi-channel Graph Convolutional Network for Query Classification in E-commerce

Chunyuan Yuan, Ming Pang, Zheng Fang +3

Query intent classification is an essential module for customers to find desired products on the e-commerce application quickly. Most existing query intent classification methods r…

cs.IR2023

Always Strengthen Your Strengths: A Drift-Aware Incremental Learning Framework for CTR Prediction

Congcong Liu, Fei Teng, Xiwei Zhao +3

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is of great importance in recommendation systems and online advertising platforms. When served in industrial scenarios, the user-generated data…

cs.CV2025

Generate E-commerce Product Background by Integrating Category Commonality and Personalized Style

Haohan Wang, Wei Feng, Yaoyu Li +5

The state-of-the-art methods for e-commerce product background generation suffer from the inefficiency of designing product-wise prompts when scaling up the production, as well as…

cs.CL2025

ADORE: Autonomous Domain-Oriented Relevance Engine for E-commerce

Zheng Fang, Donghao Xie, Ming Pang +5

Relevance modeling in e-commerce search remains challenged by semantic gaps in term-matching methods (e.g., BM25) and neural models' reliance on the scarcity of domain-specific har…

cs.IR2023

PCDF: A Parallel-Computing Distributed Framework for Sponsored Search Advertising Serving

Han Xu, Hao Qi, Kunyao Wang +8

Traditional online advertising systems for sponsored search follow a cascade paradigm with retrieval, pre-ranking,ranking, respectively. Constrained by strict requirements on onlin…

cs.CV2024

Towards Reliable Advertising Image Generation Using Human Feedback

Zhenbang Du, Wei Feng, Haohan Wang +10

In the e-commerce realm, compelling advertising images are pivotal for attracting customer attention. While generative models automate image generation, they often produce substand…

cs.IR2023

On the Adaptation to Concept Drift for CTR Prediction

Congcong Liu, Yuejiang Li, Fei Teng +5

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial task in web search, recommender systems, and online advertisement displaying. In practical application, CTR models often serve with…

cs.IR2022

Alleviating Cold-start Problem in CTR Prediction with A Variational Embedding Learning Framework

Xiaoxiao Xu, Chen Yang, Qian Yu +7

We propose a general Variational Embedding Learning Framework (VELF) for alleviating the severe cold-start problem in CTR prediction. VELF addresses the cold start problem via alle…

cs.IR2022

Gating-adapted Wavelet Multiresolution Analysis for Exposure Sequence Modeling in CTR prediction

Xiaoxiao Xu, Zhiwei Fang, Qian Yu +7

The exposure sequence is being actively studied for user interest modeling in Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction. However, the existing methods for exposure sequence modeling brin…

cs.LG2025

CTR-Driven Advertising Image Generation with Multimodal Large Language Models

Xingye Chen, Wei Feng, Zhenbang Du +16

In web data, advertising images are crucial for capturing user attention and improving advertising effectiveness. Most existing methods generate background for products primarily f…

cs.LG2022

NDGGNET-A Node Independent Gate based Graph Neural Networks

Ye Tang, Xuesong Yang, Xinrui Liu +3

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is an architecture for structural data, and has been adopted in a mass of tasks and achieved fabulous results, such as link prediction, node classifica…

cs.IR2025

GCRank: A Generative Contextual Comprehension Paradigm for Takeout Ranking Model

Ziheng Ni, Congcong Liu, Cai Shang +10

The ranking stage serves as the central optimization and allocation hub in advertising systems, governing economic value distribution through eCPM and orchestrating the user-centri…

cs.LG2025

Generative Click-through Rate Prediction with Applications to Search Advertising

Lingwei Kong, Lu Wang, Changping Peng +3

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction models are integral to a myriad of industrial settings, such as personalized search advertising. Current methods typically involve feature extra…

cs.CV2024

Planning and Rendering: Towards Product Poster Generation with Diffusion Models

Zhaochen Li, Fengheng Li, Wei Feng +8

Product poster generation significantly optimizes design efficiency and reduces production costs. Prevailing methods predominantly rely on image-inpainting methods to generate clea…

cs.CV2024

CBNet: A Plug-and-Play Network for Segmentation-Based Scene Text Detection

Xi Zhao, Wei Feng, Zheng Zhang +5

Recently, segmentation-based methods are quite popular in scene text detection, which mainly contain two steps: text kernel segmentation and expansion. However, the segmentation pr…

cs.IR2022

Rethinking Position Bias Modeling with Knowledge Distillation for CTR Prediction

Congcong Liu, Yuejiang Li, Jian Zhu +4

Click-through rate (CTR) Prediction is of great importance in real-world online ads systems. One challenge for the CTR prediction task is to capture the real interest of users from…

cs.LG2026

Uncertainty Modeling for Multi-Objective RTA Interception with Distillation Acceleration

Gaoxiang Zhao, Ruinan Qiu, Pengpeng Zhao +4

Real-Time Auction (RTA) interception decides which incoming advertising requests reach downstream systems, and therefore controls the quality of the data those systems learn from.…

cs.IR2023

Rethinking Large-scale Pre-ranking System: Entire-chain Cross-domain Models

Jinbo Song, Ruoran Huang, Xinyang Wang +9

Industrial systems such as recommender systems and online advertising, have been widely equipped with multi-stage architectures, which are divided into several cascaded modules, in…

cs.IR2024

Domain-Aware Cross-Attention for Cross-domain Recommendation

Yuhao Luo, Shiwei Ma, Mingjun Nie +4

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) is an important method to improve recommender system performance, especially when observations in target domains are sparse. However, most existin…

cs.CV2023

Mutual Query Network for Multi-Modal Product Image Segmentation

Yun Guo, Wei Feng, Zheng Zhang +6

Product image segmentation is vital in e-commerce. Most existing methods extract the product image foreground only based on the visual modality, making it difficult to distinguish…

cs.IR2023

Confidence Ranking for CTR Prediction

Jian Zhu, Congcong Liu, Pei Wang +3

Model evolution and constant availability of data are two common phenomena in large-scale real-world machine learning applications, e.g. ads and recommendation systems. To adapt, t…

cs.GT2026

JD-BP: A Joint-Decision Generative Framework for Auto-Bidding and Pricing

Linghui Meng, Chun Gan, Shengsheng Niu +8

Auto-bidding services optimize real-time bidding strategies for advertisers under key performance indicator (KPI) constraints such as target return on investment and budget. Howeve…

cs.LG2026

Auto-bidding under Return-on-Spend Constraints with Uncertainty Quantification

Jiale Han, Chun Gan, Chengcheng Zhang +4

Auto-bidding systems are widely used in advertising to automatically determine bid values under constraints such as total budget and Return-on-Spend (RoS) targets. Existing works o…

cs.LG2025

Generative Modeling with Multi-Instance Reward Learning for E-commerce Creative Optimization

Qiaolei Gu, Yu Li, DingYi Zeng +6

In e-commerce advertising, selecting the most compelling combination of creative elements -- such as titles, images, and highlights -- is critical for capturing user attention and…

cs.IR2025

Generative Retrieval and Alignment Model: A New Paradigm for E-commerce Retrieval

Ming Pang, Chunyuan Yuan, Xiaoyu He +8

Traditional sparse and dense retrieval methods struggle to leverage general world knowledge and often fail to capture the nuanced features of queries and products. With the advent…