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most citedReinforced Preference Optimization for Recommendation

2 citations · 3 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.IR2026

Auto-Bidding with Disentangled Advertiser Profiles and Train-Free Adaptation

Songyue Cai, Shan Gu, Wei Chen +4

Auto-bidding is a key component of modern advertising systems that provides a personalized bidding strategy for each advertiser. By characterizing each individual, profile-based me…

cs.IR2026

Strategy-Aware Parameter-Efficient Adaptation for LLM-based Auto-Bidding

Songyue Cai, Lianyu Wang, Shan Gu +4

Advertising bidding has evolved from manual strategies to auto-bidding systems better adapted for large-scale, dynamic auction environments. While recent advances in Large Language…

cs.IR2026

TransRetrieval: Scaling Up Transformer-Based Retrieval for Industrial Recommendation

Zhifei Zheng, Yunfei Liu, Bin Liu +7

Applying scaling laws to recommendation retrieval is hindered by feature heterogeneity: naively stacking Transformer layers yields diminishing returns because heterogeneous fields…

cs.IR2025

MUSE: A Simple Yet Effective Multimodal Search-Based Framework for Lifelong User Interest Modeling

Bin Wu, Feifan Yang, Zhangming Chan +8

Lifelong user interest modeling is crucial for industrial recommender systems, yet existing approaches rely predominantly on ID-based features, suffering from poor generalization o…

cs.LG2025

AIF: Asynchronous Inference Framework for Cost-Effective Pre-Ranking

Zhi Kou, Xiang-Rong Sheng, Shuguang Han +5

In industrial recommendation systems, pre-ranking models based on deep neural networks (DNNs) commonly adopt a sequential execution framework: feature fetching and model forward co…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

Think before Recommendation: Autonomous Reasoning-enhanced Recommender

Xiaoyu Kong, Junguang Jiang, Bin Liu +6

The core task of recommender systems is to learn user preferences from historical user-item interactions. With the rapid development of large language models (LLMs), recent researc…

cs.IR2025★ 2 cited

Reinforced Preference Optimization for Recommendation

Junfei Tan, Yuxin Chen, An Zhang +7

Recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) have fundamentally shifted recommender systems from discriminative to generative paradigms, where user behavior modeling is ach…

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.LG2025

Bidding-Aware Retrieval for Multi-Stage Consistency in Online Advertising

Bin Liu, Yunfei Liu, Ziru Xu +4

Online advertising systems typically use a cascaded architecture to manage massive requests and candidate volumes, where the ranking stages allocate traffic based on eCPM (predicte…

cs.IR2025

Large Language Model as Universal Retriever in Industrial-Scale Recommender System

Junguang Jiang, Yanwen Huang, Bin Liu +6

In real-world recommender systems, different retrieval objectives are typically addressed using task-specific datasets with carefully designed model architectures. We demonstrate t…

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

Robust Representation Learning for Unified Online Top-K Recommendation

Minfang Lu, Yuchen Jiang, Huihui Dong +9

In large-scale industrial e-commerce, the efficiency of an online recommendation system is crucial in delivering highly relevant item/content advertising that caters to diverse bus…