arXiv:2603. 24226v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have inspired a surge of scaling research in industrial search, advertising, and recommendation systems.
By Liren Yu, Caiyuan Li, Feiyi Dong, Tao Zhang, Zhixuan Zhang, Dan Ou, Haihong Tang, Bo Zheng
arXiv:2609.37905v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Click-Through Rate prediction, a core task in recommendation and advertising systems, relies on modeling interactions among sparse categorical featur...
By Shivang Chopra, Fotis Iliopoulos, Zsolt Kira, Gaurav Menghani
arXiv:2602. 10016v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deriving predictable scaling laws that govern the relationship between model performance and computational investment is crucial for designing and allocating resources in massive-scale recommendation systems.
By Bojian Hou, Xiaolong Liu, Xiaoyi Liu, Jiaqi Xu, Yasmine Badr, Mengyue Hang, Sudhanshu Chanpuriya, Junqing Zhou, Yuhang Yang, Han Xu, Qiuling Suo, Laming Chen, Yuxi Hu, Jiasheng Zhang, Huaqing Xiong, Yuzhen Huang, Chao Chen, Yue Dong, Yi Yang, Shuo Chang, Xiaorui Gan, Wenlin Chen, Santanu Kolay, Darren Liu, Jade Nie, Chunzhi Yang, Ellie Wen, Jiyan Yang, Huayu Li
arXiv:2607. 27744v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern recommendation models gain prediction quality by scaling feature-interaction and sequence modules, but production cost constraints cap how far systems can scale.
By Yuxin Chen, Liang Luo, Buyun Zhang, Jian Jiao, Boda Li, Haoyu Wang, Tongyi Tang, Ao Cai, Zijian Shen, Zhengkai Zhang, Wenyi Xie, Ryan Dick, Han Liu, Neng Shi, Bin Yu, Jianbo Xiao, Shuyao Bi, Hongtao Yu, Yuanwei Fang, Zhuoran Zhao, Sijia Chen, Yang Chen, Shuqi Yang, Qianru Li, Zikun Liu, Wei Ling, Sihan Zeng, Longhao Jin, Jiaxin Lu, Yinbin Ma, Jiawei Li, Yichen Ruan, Yong Ler Lee, Birmingham Guan, Zijian Li, Jianbo Sun, Zhengyu Zhang, Zeliang Chen, Xiaohan Wei, Yuchen Hao, GP Musumeci, Venkatesh Ranganathan, Yantao Yao, Chunqiang Tang, Wenlin Chen, Santanu Kolay, Ellie Dingqiao Wen
arXiv:2602. 10226v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Optimizing large-scale machine learning systems, such as recommendation models for global video platforms, requires navigating a massive hyperparameter search space and, more critically, designing sophisticated optimizers, architectures, and reward functions to capture nuanced user behaviors.
By Haochen Wang, Yi Wu, Daryl Chang, Li Wei, Lukasz Heldt
arXiv:2606. 01111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern industrial recommender systems rely on thousands of heterogeneous features -- ranging from low-dimensional scalars (e.
By Yihong Huang, Chen Chu, Fei Chen, Yu Lin, Ruiduan Li, Zhihao Li
The paper introduces Poodle, a prototype for just‑in‑time model replacement (JITR) that automatically swaps a large language model with a cheaper, task‑specific model when a recurring task is detected. Poodle reduces inference time by up to 7.5× and saves over $2,200 per 1 M requests compared to a flagship hosted LLM, while maintaining competitive accuracy. The authors argue that model search and transfer learning are essential for efficiently identifying and fine‑tuning these custom models.
By Nils Strassenburg, Boris Glavic, Tilmann Rabl
OneBid is a unified auto‑bidding foundation model that consolidates diverse cost‑per‑X (oCPX) advertising scenarios into a single framework. It builds on Decision Transformer by conditioning on two atomic signals—Return‑to‑Go for conversion value and Cost‑to‑Go for cost ratio—and incorporates value‑aware regularization. A sequence‑level Mixture‑of‑Experts architecture captures cross‑scenario knowledge while preserving low latency, and a Critic‑guided Relative Offline Policy optimization (CROP) aligns the backbone with scenario‑specific preferences without unsafe online exploration. In production at Kuaishou, OneBid achieved a 2.2% overall ADVV increase and up to 13.1% in the ROAS scenario.
By Yewen Li, Peng Jiang, Yitian Li, Pengfei Lv, Xialong Liu, Peng Jiang, Qingpeng Cai
arXiv:2508.02609v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have been extensively applied to industry recommendation systems, as seen in models like GraphSage\cite{GraphSage...
By Jiayin Jin, Erika Sun, Zhimeng Pan, Yang Tang, Jiarui Feng, Kungang Li, Chongyuan Xiang, Jiacheng Li, Runze Su, Siping Ji, Han Sun, Ling Leng, Prathibha Deshikachar
CORAL is an LLM‑native harness that automates continual optimization of production recommender systems. It operates in a closed loop: an agent observes system signals, reasons over past decisions, and uses tools—including a numerical optimizer—to reconfigure the recommender while staying within a fixed operating budget. In A/B experiments on two large social platforms, CORAL improved engagement without extra serving cost on one platform and reduced serving cost without harming engagement on the other, demonstrating that a single agentic loop can replace manual engineering for ongoing system tuning.
By Muhammad Rafay Azhar, Yuhang Zhou, Gilbert Jiang, Yuchen Wang, Rahul Sharma, Matthew DeSousa, Jiayi Liu, Xin Guo, Lizhu Zhang, Xiangjun Fan
arXiv:2607. 14418v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ad-load design is a central supply-side decision in sponsored search: more sponsored slots can raise revenue, but may crowd out organic results and degrade user outcomes.
By Mohammad Rashid, Hema Yoganarasimhan
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