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most citedDHEN: A Deep and Hierarchical Ensemble Network for Large-Scale Click-Through Rate Prediction

9 citations · 14 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.IR2026

Bumblebee: Interleaved Mixed-Layer Building Blocks for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems

David Bauer, Cancan Zhang, Wenshun Liu +13

Recommendation systems have undergone significant transformations in the past years. The transition from traditional feature interaction modules to generative next-action predictio…

cs.IR2026

ReasonRec: A Reasoning-Augmented Multimodal Agent for Unified Recommendation

Yihua Zhang, Mingfu Liang, Jiyan Yang +11

Recent advances in multimodal recommenders excel at feature fusion but remain opaque and inefficient decision-makers, lacking explicit reasoning and self-awareness of uncertainty.…

cs.LG2026

LoopFM: Learning frOm HistOrical RePresentations of Foundation Model for Recommendation

Shali Jiang, Hua Zheng, Boyang Liu +46

Knowledge distillation (KD) transfers a single scalar prediction from a large foundation model (FM) to compact vertical models (VMs), suffering from diminishing transfer ratio -- t…

cs.LG2026

SOLARIS: Speculative Offloading of Latent-bAsed Representation for Inference Scaling

Zikun Liu, Liang Luo, Qianru Li +31

Recent advances in recommendation scaling laws have led to foundation models of unprecedented complexity. While these models offer superior performance, their computational demands…

cs.IR2026

Mixture of Sequence: Theme-Aware Mixture-of-Experts for Long-Sequence Recommendation

Xiao Lin, Zhicheng Tang, Weilin Cong +14

Sequential recommendation has rapidly advanced in click-through rate prediction due to its ability to model dynamic user interests. A key challenge, however, lies in modeling long…

cs.IR2026

Kunlun: Establishing Scaling Laws for Massive-Scale Recommendation Systems through Unified Architecture Design

Bojian Hou, Xiaolong Liu, Xiaoyi Liu +26

Deriving predictable scaling laws that govern the relationship between model performance and computational investment is crucial for designing and allocating resources in massive-s…

cs.LG2025

Improving Large-Scale Recommender Systems with Auxiliary Learning

Mertcan Cokbas, Ziteng Liu, Zeyi Tao +10

Training large-scale recommendation models under a single global objective implicitly assumes homogeneity across user populations. However, real-world data are composites of hetero…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

The Efficiency vs. Accuracy Trade-off: Optimizing RAG-Enhanced LLM Recommender Systems Using Multi-Head Early Exit

Huixue Zhou, Hengrui Gu, Xi Liu +15

The deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) in recommender systems for predicting Click-Through Rates (CTR) necessitates a delicate balance between computational efficiency and…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

InterFormer: Effective Heterogeneous Interaction Learning for Click-Through Rate Prediction

Zhichen Zeng, Xiaolong Liu, Mengyue Hang +25

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction, which predicts the probability of a user clicking an ad, is a fundamental task in recommender systems. The emergence of heterogeneous informati…

cs.IR2022★ 9 cited

DHEN: A Deep and Hierarchical Ensemble Network for Large-Scale Click-Through Rate Prediction

Buyun Zhang, Liang Luo, Xi Liu +14

Learning feature interactions is important to the model performance of online advertising services. As a result, extensive efforts have been devoted to designing effective architec…

cs.DC2021★ 3 cited

Software-Hardware Co-design for Fast and Scalable Training of Deep Learning Recommendation Models

Dheevatsa Mudigere, Yuchen Hao, Jianyu Huang +50

Deep learning recommendation models (DLRMs) are used across many business-critical services at Facebook and are the single largest AI application in terms of infrastructure demand…