Sequence modeling has become increasingly popular in recommendation and ranking algorithms, owing to its capacity to model users' historical behaviors and infer user intentions. Despite its theoretical simplicity, the practical deployment of a sequence model in production is non-trivial due to complexity of the sequence and sparse labels.
arXiv:2606. 06779v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In multi-vertical e-commerce platforms like DoorDash, relatively newer product verticals such as grocery and retail present a significant opportunity for personalization innovation.
By Nimesh Sinha, Raghav Saboo, Martin Wang, Sudeep Das
Sequential recommendation aims to predict users' next interaction with items by analyzing their historical behavior. However, the limited quality of item representations remains a critical bottleneck.
arXiv:2606. 11023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sequential recommendation aims to predict users' next interaction with items by analyzing their historical behavior.
By Yifan Li, Jiahong Liu, Xinni Zhang, Hao Chen, Yankai Chen, Wenhao Yu, Jianting Chen, Irwin King
arXiv:2606. 25147v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: User modeling in industrial recommender systems typically produces dense embeddings, which suffer from representational constraints inherent to fixed-dimensional vectors.
By Qingyun Liu, Bo Yan, Yang Liu, Yuji Roh, Ekansh Sharma, Likang Yin, Emma Olowo, Min-hsuan Tsai, Yuxuan Li, Diego Uribe, Saksham Aggarwal, Siqi Wu, Yuan Hao, Vikas Kedigehalli, Lukasz Heldt, Lichan Hong, Li Wei, Xinyang Yi
arXiv:2607. 14161v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pinterest is where people turn inspiration into action as users browse ideas, then take steps toward realization, often by discovering shoppable content.
By Junpeng Hou, XianXing Zhang, Sai Xiao, Derek Cheng, Darren Reger, Olafur Gudmundsson, Mehdi Ben Ayed, Zhiqing Rao, Huizhong Duan
arXiv:2607. 03886v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sponsored search plays a crucial role as a revenue stream for search engines, wherein advertisers competitively bid on keywords that align with the users' search queries.
By Md Omar Faruk Rokon, Andrei Simion, Weizhi Du, Musen Wen, Hong Yao, Kuang-chih Lee
arXiv:2607. 22518v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we propose a new solution for addressing the content cold-start problem in industry-scale search and recommender systems.
By Olafur Gudmundsson, Bo Zhao, Huayi Liao, Anna Kiyantseva, Sai Xiao, Heath Vinicombe, Mostafa Keikha, Luke DeLuccia, Zihao Chen, Junpeng Hou, Weijie Jiang, Bhawna Juneja, Andreanne Lemay, Wei-Ting Lin, Keyvan Moghadam, Jiaxing Qu, Zhiqing Rao, Zhihua Zhang
arXiv:2607. 17017v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As scalability becomes increasingly important in recommendation modeling, recent architectures have advanced the modeling of two broad sources of ranking signals along separate paths: non-sequence features, including user, item, context, and cross features; and sequence features from user behavior histories.
By Renqin Cai, Dawei Sun, Yuanjun Yao, Zhiyong Wang, Velvin Fu, Maggie Zhuang, Yu Shi, Zhongnan Fang, Xuan Cao, Jing Qian, Rui Li
arXiv:2607. 03880v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sponsored search plays a crucial role in e-commerce revenue generation, where advertisers strategically bid on keywords to capture the attention of users through relevant search queries.
By Md Omar Faruk Rokon, Weizhi Du, Zhaodong Wang, Musen Wen
arXiv:2606. 03866v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scaling recommender systems via large language models (LLMs) has become a prominent trend in the industry.
By Yuecheng Li, Zeyu Song, Jing Yao, Chi Lu, Peng Jiang, Kun Gai
arXiv:2607. 12246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalization in two-sided marketplaces relies heavily on user-level features, yet for platforms with infrequent, high-consideration purchases, a large fraction of users lack sufficient history for effective recommendation, spanning both paid and organic channels.
By Wei Jiang, Bin Xu, Hui Gao, Bharathi Thangamani, Weiwei Guo, Sundar Srinivasavaradhan, Tracy Yu, Huiji Gao, Michael Kinoti