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20202025
most citedOne Model to Serve All: Star Topology Adaptive Recommender for Multi-Domain CTR Prediction

16 citations · 28 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.LG2025

See Beyond a Single View: Multi-Attribution Learning Leads to Better Conversion Rate Prediction

Sishuo Chen, Zhangming Chan, Xiang-Rong Sheng +6

Conversion rate (CVR) prediction is a core component of online advertising systems, where the attribution mechanisms-rules for allocating conversion credit across user touchpoints-…

cs.IR2024

Enhancing Taobao Display Advertising with Multimodal Representations: Challenges, Approaches and Insights

Xiang-Rong Sheng, Feifan Yang, Litong Gong +10

Despite the recognized potential of multimodal data to improve model accuracy, many large-scale industrial recommendation systems, including Taobao display advertising system, pred…

cs.IR2023

Calibration-compatible Listwise Distillation of Privileged Features for CTR Prediction

Xiaoqiang Gui, Yueyao Cheng, Xiang-Rong Sheng +6

In machine learning systems, privileged features refer to the features that are available during offline training but inaccessible for online serving. Previous studies have recogni…

cs.IR2023

Entire Space Cascade Delayed Feedback Modeling for Effective Conversion Rate Prediction

Yunfeng Zhao, Xu Yan, Xiaoqiang Gui +6

Conversion rate (CVR) prediction is an essential task for large-scale e-commerce platforms. However, refund behaviors frequently occur after conversion in online shopping systems,…

cs.IR2023★ 1 cited

Capturing Conversion Rate Fluctuation during Sales Promotions: A Novel Historical Data Reuse Approach

Zhangming Chan, Yu Zhang, Shuguang Han +8

Conversion rate (CVR) prediction is one of the core components in online recommender systems, and various approaches have been proposed to obtain accurate and well-calibrated CVR e…

cs.IR2023

COPR: Consistency-Oriented Pre-Ranking for Online Advertising

Zhishan Zhao, Jingyue Gao, Yu Zhang +8

Cascading architecture has been widely adopted in large-scale advertising systems to balance efficiency and effectiveness. In this architecture, the pre-ranking model is expected t…

cs.IR2022★ 5 cited

Towards Understanding the Overfitting Phenomenon of Deep Click-Through Rate Prediction Models

Zhao-Yu Zhang, Xiang-Rong Sheng, Yujing Zhang +4

Deep learning techniques have been applied widely in industrial recommendation systems. However, far less attention has been paid to the overfitting problem of models in recommenda…

cs.IR2022

Joint Optimization of Ranking and Calibration with Contextualized Hybrid Model

Xiang-Rong Sheng, Jingyue Gao, Yueyao Cheng +6

Despite the development of ranking optimization techniques, pointwise loss remains the dominating approach for click-through rate prediction. It can be attributed to the calibratio…

cs.IR2022★ 1 cited

On Ranking Consistency of Pre-ranking Stage

Siyu Gu, Xiangrong Sheng

Industrial ranking systems, such as advertising systems, rank items by aggregating multiple objectives into one final objective to satisfy user demand and commercial intent. Cascad…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Real Negatives Matter: Continuous Training with Real Negatives for Delayed Feedback Modeling

Siyu Gu, Xiang-Rong Sheng, Ying Fan +2

One of the difficulties of conversion rate (CVR) prediction is that the conversions can delay and take place long after the clicks. The delayed feedback poses a challenge: fresh da…

cs.IR2021★ 16 cited

One Model to Serve All: Star Topology Adaptive Recommender for Multi-Domain CTR Prediction

Xiang-Rong Sheng, Liqin Zhao, Guorui Zhou +8

Traditional industrial recommenders are usually trained on a single business domain and then serve for this domain. However, in large commercial platforms, it is often the case tha…

cs.IR2020★ 3 cited

CAN: Feature Co-Action for Click-Through Rate Prediction

Weijie Bian, Kailun Wu, Lejian Ren +12

Feature interaction has been recognized as an important problem in machine learning, which is also very essential for click-through rate (CTR) prediction tasks. In recent years, De…