collaborators

12 papers

cs.IR2026

Synthetic Data from Cross-Domain Events for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems

Xiangyu Wang, Yawen He, Shivendra Pratap Singh +12

Large-scale recommendation systems operate across diverse domains, yet they face the challenges of data sparsity and noisy implicit feedback. Traditional approaches mitigate this v…

cs.IR2026

Fine-Tuned LLM as a Complementary Predictor Improving Ads System

Hui Yang, Daiwei He, Kevin Jiang +20

Recommendation systems power engagement and monetization across feeds, ads, and short-video platforms, but translating the latest advances in Large Language Models into Recommendat…

cs.IR2026

Memento: Personalized RAG-Style Long-Retention Data Scaling for META Ads Recommendation

Xiaoyu Chen, Ruichen Wang, Jieming Di +21

Modeling of long history data suffers from long-context window attention dilution, system efficiency and catastrophic forgetting problems, where naive linear scaling approach like…

cs.IR2026

Intelligent Elastic Feature Fading: Enabling Model Retrain-Free Feature Efficiency Rollouts at Scale

Jieming Di, Xiaoyu Chen, Ying She +21

Large-scale ranking systems depend on thousands of features derived from user behavior across multiple time horizons. Typically requires model retraining -- resulting in long itera…

cs.IR2025

MTMD: A Multi-Task Multi-Domain Framework for Unified Ad Lightweight Ranking at Pinterest

Xiao Yang, Peifeng Yin, Abe Engle +2

The lightweight ad ranking layer, living after the retrieval stage and before the fine ranker, plays a critical role in the success of a cascaded ad recommendation system. Due to t…

cs.LG2025

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Ranking Utility Tuning in the Ad Recommender System at Pinterest

Xiao Yang, Mehdi Ben Ayed, Longyu Zhao +8

The ranking utility function in an ad recommender system, which linearly combines predictions of various business goals, plays a central role in balancing values across the platfor…