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most citedAPG: Adaptive Parameter Generation Network for Click-Through Rate Prediction

15 citations · 22 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

stat.ML2026

Co-Diffusion: An Affinity-Aware Two-Stage Latent Diffusion Framework for Generalizable Drug-Target Affinity Prediction

Yining Qian, Pengjie Wang, Yixiao Li +4

Predicting drug-target affinity is fundamental to virtual screening and lead optimization. However, existing deep models often suffer from representation collapse in stringent cold…

cs.LG2026

LoFT-LLM: Low-Frequency Time-Series Forecasting with Large Language Models

Jiacheng You, Jingcheng Yang, Yuhang Xie +7

Time-series forecasting in real-world applications such as finance and energy often faces challenges due to limited training data and complex, noisy temporal dynamics. Existing dee…

cs.IR2026

LORE: A Large Generative Model for Search Relevance

Chenji Lu, Zhuo Chen, Hui Zhao +9

Achievement. We introduce LORE, a systematic framework for Large Generative Model-based relevance in e-commerce search. Deployed and iterated over three years, LORE achieves a cumu…

cs.IR2025

RAIR: A Rule-Aware Benchmark Uniting Challenging Long-Tail and Visual Salience Subset for E-commerce Relevance Assessment

Chenji Lu, Zhuo Chen, Hui Zhao +4

Search relevance plays a central role in web e-commerce. While large language models (LLMs) have shown significant results on relevance task, existing benchmarks lack sufficient co…

cs.IR2025

MOON Embedding: Multimodal Representation Learning for E-commerce Search Advertising

Chenghan Fu, Daoze Zhang, Yukang Lin +8

We introduce MOON, our comprehensive set of sustainable iterative practices for multimodal representation learning for e-commerce applications. MOON has already been fully deployed…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

NEZHA: A Zero-sacrifice and Hyperspeed Decoding Architecture for Generative Recommendations

Yejing Wang, Shengyu Zhou, Jinyu Lu +9

Generative Recommendation (GR), powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), represents a promising new paradigm for industrial recommender systems. However, their practical applicatio…

cs.CV2025

MOON2.0: Dynamic Modality-balanced Multimodal Representation Learning for E-commerce Product Understanding

Zhanheng Nie, Chenghan Fu, Daoze Zhang +5

Recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly advanced e-commerce product understanding. However, they still face three challenges: (i) the modality imbalance…

cs.IR2025

From Scaling to Structured Expressivity: Rethinking Transformers for CTR Prediction

Bencheng Yan, Yuejie Lei, Zhiyuan Zeng +7

Despite massive investments in scale, deep models for click-through rate (CTR) prediction often exhibit rapidly diminishing returns -- a stark contrast to the {predictable scaling…

cs.IR2025

RecIS: Sparse to Dense, A Unified Training Framework for Recommendation Models

Hua Zong, Qingtao Zeng, Zhengxiong Zhou +31

In this paper, we propose RecIS, a unified Sparse-Dense training framework designed to achieve two primary goals: 1. Unified Framework To create a Unified sparse-dense training fra…

cs.CV2025

Creative4U: MLLMs-based Advertising Creative Image Selector with Comparative Reasoning

Yukang Lin, Xiang Zhang, Shichang Jia +9

Creative image in advertising is the heart and soul of e-commerce platform. An eye-catching creative image can enhance the shopping experience for users, boosting income for advert…

cs.CV2025

MOON: Generative MLLM-based Multimodal Representation Learning for E-commerce Product Understanding

Daoze Zhang, Chenghan Fu, Zhanheng Nie +7

With the rapid advancement of e-commerce, exploring general representations rather than task-specific ones has attracted increasing research attention. For product understanding, a…

cs.GT2025★ 2 cited

Beyond Advertising: Mechanism Design for Platform-Wide Marketing Service "QuanZhanTui"

Ningyuan Li, Zhilin Zhang, Tianyan Long +8

On e-commerce platforms, sellers typically bid for impressions from ad traffic to promote their products. However, for most sellers, the majority of their sales come from organic t…

cs.IR2025

GFlowGR: Fine-tuning Generative Recommendation Frameworks with Generative Flow Networks

Yejing Wang, Shengyu Zhou, Jinyu Lu +9

Generative recommendations (GR), which usually include item tokenizers and generative Large Language Models (LLMs), have demonstrated remarkable success across a wide range of scen…

cs.IR2025

VALUE: Value-Aware Large Language Model for Query Rewriting via Weighted Trie in Sponsored Search

Xiao Zhang, Guanyu Chen, Boyang Zuo +4

Query-to-bidword(i.e., bidding keyword) rewriting is fundamental to sponsored search, transforming noisy user queries into semantically relevant and commercially valuable keywords.…

cs.IR2025

UQABench: Evaluating User Embedding for Prompting LLMs in Personalized Question Answering

Langming Liu, Shilei Liu, Yujin Yuan +10

Large language models (LLMs) achieve remarkable success in natural language processing (NLP). In practical scenarios like recommendations, as users increasingly seek personalized e…

cs.LG2025

Gradient Deconfliction via Orthogonal Projections onto Subspaces For Multi-task Learning

Shijie Zhu, Hui Zhao, Tianshu Wu +4

Although multi-task learning (MTL) has been a preferred approach and successfully applied in many real-world scenarios, MTL models are not guaranteed to outperform single-task mode…

cs.IR2025

MIM: Multi-modal Content Interest Modeling Paradigm for User Behavior Modeling

Bencheng Yan, Si Chen, Shichang Jia +12

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial task in recommendation systems, online searches, and advertising platforms, where accurately capturing users' real interests in con…

cs.IR2025★ 2 cited

Unlocking Scaling Law in Industrial Recommendation Systems with a Three-step Paradigm based Large User Model

Bencheng Yan, Shilei Liu, Zhiyuan Zeng +10

Recent advancements in autoregressive Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved significant milestones, largely attributed to their scalability, often referred to as the "scaling…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

Explainable LLM-driven Multi-dimensional Distillation for E-Commerce Relevance Learning

Gang Zhao, Ximing Zhang, Chenji Lu +5

Effective query-item relevance modeling is pivotal for enhancing user experience and safeguarding user satisfaction in e-commerce search systems. Recently, benefiting from the vast…

cs.LG2022

GBA: A Tuning-free Approach to Switch between Synchronous and Asynchronous Training for Recommendation Model

Wenbo Su, Yuanxing Zhang, Yufeng Cai +9

High-concurrency asynchronous training upon parameter server (PS) architecture and high-performance synchronous training upon all-reduce (AR) architecture are the most commonly dep…

cs.IR2022★ 15 cited

APG: Adaptive Parameter Generation Network for Click-Through Rate Prediction

Bencheng Yan, Pengjie Wang, Kai Zhang +4

In many web applications, deep learning-based CTR prediction models (deep CTR models for short) are widely adopted. Traditional deep CTR models learn patterns in a static manner, i…

cs.LG2022

Asymptotically Unbiased Estimation for Delayed Feedback Modeling via Label Correction

Yu Chen, Jiaqi Jin, Hui Zhao +4

Alleviating the delayed feedback problem is of crucial importance for the conversion rate(CVR) prediction in online advertising. Previous delayed feedback modeling methods using an…

cs.IR2021

Binary Code based Hash Embedding for Web-scale Applications

Bencheng Yan, Pengjie Wang, Jinquan Liu +4

Nowadays, deep learning models are widely adopted in web-scale applications such as recommender systems, and online advertising. In these applications, embedding learning of catego…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Learning Effective and Efficient Embedding via an Adaptively-Masked Twins-based Layer

Bencheng Yan, Pengjie Wang, Kai Zhang +4

Embedding learning for categorical features is crucial for the deep learning-based recommendation models (DLRMs). Each feature value is mapped to an embedding vector via an embeddi…