4 papers
An Industrial-Scale Sequential Recommender for LinkedIn Feed Ranking
Lars Hertel, Gaurav Srivastava, Syed Ali Naqvi +21
LinkedIn Feed enables professionals worldwide to discover relevant content, build connections, and share knowledge at scale. We present Feed Sequential Recommender (Feed SR), a tra…
CADET: Context-Conditioned Ads CTR Prediction With a Decoder-Only Transformer
David Pardoe, Neil Daftary, Miro Furtado +20
Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is fundamental to online advertising systems. While Deep Learning Recommendation Models (DLRMs) with explicit feature interactions have long dom…
From Features to Transformers: Redefining Ranking for Scalable Impact
Fedor Borisyuk, Lars Hertel, Ganesh Parameswaran +14
We present LiGR, a large-scale ranking framework developed at LinkedIn that brings state-of-the-art transformer-based modeling architectures into production. We introduce a modifie…
Efficient user history modeling with amortized inference for deep learning recommendation models
Lars Hertel, Neil Daftary, Fedor Borisyuk +2
We study user history modeling via Transformer encoders in deep learning recommendation models (DLRM). Such architectures can significantly improve recommendation quality, but usua…