arXiv AI
Oct 27

Towards a Unified Framework of Optimal Input-Side Dimensional Configuration for Deep CTR Prediction

The paper introduces OptIDC, a unified framework for optimizing input-side dimensional configuration in deep click‑through rate (CTR) prediction models. OptIDC jointly learns sample, feature, and embedding‑unit selections and employs a selection‑weighted Optimal Transport mechanism to coordinate decisions across levels, reducing conflicts while preserving semantics. Experiments on four real‑world datasets show that OptIDC consistently outperforms existing input‑side selection methods in terms of AUC.

By Chaohua Yang, Fuyuan Lyu, Xing Tang, Dugang Liu, Xiuqiang He, Zhong Ming
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

DUET -- Dual User Embedding Transformers for Offsite Conversion Prediction

arXiv:2606. 10243v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offsite conversion rate (OCVR) prediction is an important ranking problem in computational recommendation systems.

By Reazul Hasan Russel, Mingwei Tang, Rostam Shirani, Xinlong Liu, Navid Madani, Leo Ding, Yawen He, Xiangyu Wang, Mustafa Acar, Ashish Katiyar, Yuhai Li, Alan Yang, Metarya Ruparel, Derek Qiang Xu, Rupert Wu, Rui Yang, Liang Tao, Xinyi Zhao, Larry Zhang, Sri Reddy, Rob Malkin
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 3

The Efficiency vs. Accuracy Trade-off: Optimizing RAG-Enhanced LLM Recommender Systems Using Multi-Head Early Exit

arXiv:2501. 02173v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) in recommender systems for predicting Click-Through Rates (CTR) necessitates a delicate balance between computational efficiency and predictive accuracy.

By Huixue Zhou, Hengrui Gu, Xi Liu, Kaixiong Zhou, Mingfu Liang, Yongkang Xiao, Srinivas Govindan, Piyush Chawla, Jiyan Yang, Xiangfei Meng, Huayu Li, Buyun Zhang, Liang Luo, Wen-Yen Chen, Yiping Han, Bo Long, Rui Zhang, Tianlong Chen