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most citedUnderstanding the Ranking Loss for Recommendation with Sparse User Feedback

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cs.IR2026

NOVA: A Verification-Aware Agent Harness for Architecture Evolution in Industrial Recommender Systems

Shaohua Liu, Liang Fang, Yilong Sun +16

Industrial advertising recommender systems are continually improved through architecture modifications, yet production iteration remains expert-intensive because coordinated change…

cs.LG2026

Expand More, Shrink Less: Shaping Effective-Rank Dynamics for Dense Scaling in Recommendation

Guoming Li, Shangyu Zhang, Junwei Pan +7

Scaling recommendation models is a central challenge in recommender systems. Recently, RankMixer has emerged as an effective solution, operating on a unified token representation a…

cs.IR2026

RankUp: Towards High-rank Representations for Large Scale Advertising Recommender Systems

Jin Chen, Shangyu Zhang, Bin Hu +16

The scaling laws for recommender systems have been increasingly validated, where MetaFormer-based architectures consistently benefit from increased model depth, hidden dimensionali…

cs.IR2026

Asymmetric Generative Recommendation via Kronecker Residual Bridge and Multi-Faceted Hierarchical Quantization

Bin Huang, Xin Wang, Junwei Pan +6

Generative Recommendation (GenRec) models reformulate recommendation as a sequence generation task, representing items as discrete Semantic IDs used symmetrically as both inputs an…

cs.IR2026

TokenFormer: Unify the Multi-Field and Sequential Recommendation Worlds

Yifeng Zhou, Yuehong Hu, Zhixiang Feng +9

Recommender systems have historically developed along two largely independent paradigms: feature interaction models for modeling correlations among multi-field categorical features…

cs.IR2026

Tencent Advertising Algorithm Challenge 2025: All-Modality Generative Recommendation

Junwei Pan, Wei Xue, Chao Zhou +20

Generative recommender systems are rapidly emerging as a new paradigm for recommendation, where collaborative identifiers and/or multi-modal content are mapped into discrete token…

cs.IR2025

Practice on Long Behavior Sequence Modeling in Tencent Advertising

Xian Hu, Ming Yue, Zhixiang Feng +24

Long-sequence modeling has become an indispensable frontier in recommendation systems for capturing users' long-term preferences. However, user behaviors within advertising domains…

cs.IR2024

Towards Unifying Feature Interaction Models for Click-Through Rate Prediction

Yu Kang, Junwei Pan, Jipeng Jin +3

Modeling feature interactions plays a crucial role in accurately predicting click-through rates (CTR) in advertising systems. To capture the intricate patterns of interaction, many…

cs.IR2024

Crocodile: Cross Experts Covariance for Disentangled Learning in Multi-Domain Recommendation

Zhutian Lin, Junwei Pan, Haibin Yu +7

Multi-domain learning (MDL) has become a prominent topic in enhancing the quality of personalized services. It's critical to learn commonalities between domains and preserve the di…

cs.IR2024★ 11 cited

Understanding the Ranking Loss for Recommendation with Sparse User Feedback

Zhutian Lin, Junwei Pan, Shangyu Zhang +5

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial area of research in online advertising. While binary cross entropy (BCE) has been widely used as the optimization objective for tre…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

PRIOR: Personalized Prior for Reactivating the Information Overlooked in Federated Learning

Mingjia Shi, Yuhao Zhou, Kai Wang +4

Classical federated learning (FL) enables training machine learning models without sharing data for privacy preservation, but heterogeneous data characteristic degrades the perform…