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20182025
most citedGraph Convolutional Neural Networks for Web-Scale Recommender Systems

2.9k citations · 2.9k across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.LG2025

PinFM: Foundation Model for User Activity Sequences at a Billion-scale Visual Discovery Platform

Xiangyi Chen, Kousik Rajesh, Matthew Lawhon +9

User activity sequences have emerged as one of the most important signals in recommender systems. We present a foundational model, PinFM, for understanding user activity sequences…

cs.IR2025

TransAct V2: Lifelong User Action Sequence Modeling on Pinterest Recommendation

Xue Xia, Saurabh Vishwas Joshi, Kousik Rajesh +6

Modeling user action sequences has become a popular focus in industrial recommendation system research, particularly for Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction tasks. However, industr…

cs.IR2023★ 32 cited

TransAct: Transformer-based Realtime User Action Model for Recommendation at Pinterest

Xue Xia, Pong Eksombatchai, Nikil Pancha +7

Sequential models that encode user activity for next action prediction have become a popular design choice for building web-scale personalized recommendation systems. Traditional m…

cs.SI2019★ 23 cited

Hierarchical Temporal Convolutional Networks for Dynamic Recommender Systems

Jiaxuan You, Yichen Wang, Aditya Pal +3

Recommender systems that can learn from cross-session data to dynamically predict the next item a user will choose are crucial for online platforms. However, existing approaches of…

cs.IR2018★ 2.9k cited

Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for Web-Scale Recommender Systems

Rex Ying, Ruining He, Kaifeng Chen +3

Recent advancements in deep neural networks for graph-structured data have led to state-of-the-art performance on recommender system benchmarks. However, making these methods pract…