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

15 citations · 18 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

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.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.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.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.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…

cs.AI2021

Explicit Semantic Cross Feature Learning via Pre-trained Graph Neural Networks for CTR Prediction

Feng Li, Bencheng Yan, Qingqing Long +4

Cross features play an important role in click-through rate (CTR) prediction. Most of the existing methods adopt a DNN-based model to capture the cross features in an implicit mann…