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20132026
most citedTransAct: Transformer-based Realtime User Action Model for Recommendation at Pinterest

32 citations · 40 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.LG2026

Long-term User Engagement Optimization through Model-agnostic Downstream Rewards Learning

Dingsu Wang, Filip Ryzner, Kelly He +17

As recommender systems mature in the past few years, their optimization objectives have evolved from a primary focusing on short-term behavioral signals to a broader emphasis on lo…

cs.IR2026

UniPinRec: Unifying Generative Retrieval and Ranking at Pinterest Scale

Hanyu Li, Yi-Ping Hsu, Aditya Mantha +17

Modern recommendation systems predominantly train retrieval and ranking as separate models despite both increasingly relying on large transformers encoding the same user behavior d…

cs.IR2026

A Production-Ready RL Framework for Personalized Utility Tuning with Pareto Sweeping in Pinterest Recommender Systems

Yichu Zhou, Mehdi Ben Ayed, Lin Yang +9

Large-scale recommenders encode multi-objective trade-offs by combining multiple predicted outcomes into a single utility score. Although this utility layer can be updated independ…

cs.IR2025

TransAct V2: Lifelong User Action Sequence Modeling on Pinterest Recommendation

Xue Xia, Saurabh Vishwas Joshi, Kousik Rajesh +6

Modeling user action sequences has become a popular focus in industrial recommendation system research, particularly for Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction tasks. However, industr…

cs.IR2024

Improving feature interactions at Pinterest under industry constraints

Siddarth Malreddy, Matthew Lawhon, Usha Amrutha Nookala +2

Adopting advances in recommendation systems is often challenging in industrial settings due to unique constraints. This paper aims to highlight these constraints through the lens o…

cs.IR2023★ 32 cited

TransAct: Transformer-based Realtime User Action Model for Recommendation at Pinterest

Xue Xia, Pong Eksombatchai, Nikil Pancha +7

Sequential models that encode user activity for next action prediction have become a popular design choice for building web-scale personalized recommendation systems. Traditional m…

cs.SI2016★ 8 cited

Photographic home styles in Congress: a computer vision approach

L. Jason Anastasopoulos, Dhruvil Badani, Crystal Lee +2

While members of Congress now routinely communicate with constituents using images on a variety of internet platforms, little is known about how images are used as a means of strat…

cs.DM2013

On Generating Permutations Under User-Defined Constraints

Dhruvil Badani

In this paper, a method to generate permutations of a string under a set of constraints decided by the user is presented. The required permutations are generated without generating…