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- research-articleFebruary 2025JUST ACCEPTED
CTRL: Connect Collaborative and Language Model for CTR Prediction
Traditional click-through rate (CTR) prediction models convert the tabular data into one-hot vectors and leverage the collaborative relations among features for inferring the user’s preference over items. This modeling paradigm discards essential semantic ...
- research-articleJanuary 2025
How Can Recommender Systems Benefit from Large Language Models: A Survey
- Jianghao Lin,
- Xinyi Dai,
- Yunjia Xi,
- Weiwen Liu,
- Bo Chen,
- Hao Zhang,
- Yong Liu,
- Chuhan Wu,
- Xiangyang Li,
- Chenxu Zhu,
- Huifeng Guo,
- Yong Yu,
- Ruiming Tang,
- Weinan Zhang
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Volume 43, Issue 2Article No.: 28, Pages 1–47https://doi.org/10.1145/3678004With the rapid development of online services and web applications, recommender systems (RS) have become increasingly indispensable for mitigating information overload and matching users’ information needs by providing personalized suggestions over items. ...
- letterNovember 2024
Large language models make sample-efficient recommender systems
Frontiers of Computer Science: Selected Publications from Chinese Universities (FCS), Volume 19, Issue 4https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-024-40039-zConclusionThis letter investigates the sample efficiency property of recommender systems enhanced by large language models. We propose a simple yet effective framework (i.e., Laser) to validate the core viewpoint - large language models make sample-...
- letterNovember 2024
Towards efficient and effective unlearning of large language models for recommendation
Frontiers of Computer Science: Selected Publications from Chinese Universities (FCS), Volume 19, Issue 3https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-024-40044-2ConclusionIn this letter, we propose E2URec, the efficient and effective unlearning method for LLMRec. Our method enables LLMRec to efficiently forget the specific data by only updating the lightweight LoRA modules. Besides, to enhance the effectiveness, ...
- research-articleOctober 2024
Retrieval-Oriented Knowledge for Click-Through Rate Prediction
CIKM '24: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge ManagementPages 1441–1451https://doi.org/10.1145/3627673.3679842Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is crucial for personalized online services. Sample-level retrieval-based models, such as RIM, have demonstrated remarkable performance. However, they face challenges including inference inefficiency and high resource ...
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- research-articleOctober 2024
ELCoRec: Enhance Language Understanding with Co-Propagation of Numerical and Categorical Features for Recommendation
CIKM '24: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge ManagementPages 259–269https://doi.org/10.1145/3627673.3679789Large language models have been flourishing in the natural language processing (NLP) domain, and their potential for recommendation has been paid much attention to. Despite the intelligence shown by the recommendation-oriented finetuned models, LLMs ...
- research-articleOctober 2024
SINKT: A Structure-Aware Inductive Knowledge Tracing Model with Large Language Model
- Lingyue Fu,
- Hao Guan,
- Kounianhua Du,
- Jianghao Lin,
- Wei Xia,
- Weinan Zhang,
- Ruiming Tang,
- Yasheng Wang,
- Yong Yu
CIKM '24: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge ManagementPages 632–642https://doi.org/10.1145/3627673.3679760Knowledge Tracing (KT) aims to determine whether students will respond correctly to the next question, which is a crucial task in intelligent tutoring systems (ITS). In educational KT scenarios, transductive ID-based methods often face severe data ...
- research-articleOctober 2024
LLM4MSR: An LLM-Enhanced Paradigm for Multi-Scenario Recommendation
- Yuhao Wang,
- Yichao Wang,
- Zichuan Fu,
- Xiangyang Li,
- Wanyu Wang,
- Yuyang Ye,
- Xiangyu Zhao,
- Huifeng Guo,
- Ruiming Tang
CIKM '24: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge ManagementPages 2472–2481https://doi.org/10.1145/3627673.3679743As the demand for more personalized recommendation grows and a dramatic boom in commercial scenarios arises, the study on multi-scenario recommendation (MSR) has attracted much attention, which uses the data from all scenarios to simultaneously improve ...
- research-articleOctober 2024
HierRec: Scenario-Aware Hierarchical Modeling for Multi-scenario Recommendations
- Jingtong Gao,
- Bo Chen,
- Menghui Zhu,
- Xiangyu Zhao,
- Xiaopeng Li,
- Yuhao Wang,
- Yichao Wang,
- Huifeng Guo,
- Ruiming Tang
CIKM '24: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge ManagementPages 653–662https://doi.org/10.1145/3627673.3679615Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is a fundamental technique in recommendation and advertising systems. Recent studies have shown that implementing multi-scenario recommendations contributes to strengthening information sharing and improving overall ...
- research-articleOctober 2024
MemoCRS: Memory-enhanced Sequential Conversational Recommender Systems with Large Language Models
CIKM '24: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge ManagementPages 2585–2595https://doi.org/10.1145/3627673.3679599Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) aim to capture user preferences and provide personalized recommendations through multi-round natural language dialogues. However, most existing CRS models mainly focus on dialogue comprehension and preferences ...
- research-articleOctober 2024JUST ACCEPTED
A Unified Framework for Multi-Domain CTR Prediction via Large Language Models
- Zichuan Fu,
- Xiangyang Li,
- Chuhan Wu,
- Yichao Wang,
- Kuicai Dong,
- Xiangyu Zhao,
- Mengchen Zhao,
- Huifeng Guo,
- Ruiming Tang
Multi-Domain Click-Through Rate (MDCTR) prediction is crucial for online recommendation platforms, which involves providing personalized recommendation services to users in different domains. However, current MDCTR models are confronted with the following ...
- research-articleOctober 2024
Ranking-Aware Unbiased Post-Click Conversion Rate Estimation via AUC Optimization on Entire Exposure Space
RecSys '24: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender SystemsPages 360–369https://doi.org/10.1145/3640457.3688152Estimating the post-click conversion rate (CVR) accurately in ranking systems is crucial in industrial applications. However, this task is often challenged by data sparsity and selection bias, which hinder accurate ranking. Previous approaches to ...
- research-articleOctober 2024
AIE: Auction Information Enhanced Framework for CTR Prediction in Online Advertising
RecSys '24: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender SystemsPages 633–642https://doi.org/10.1145/3640457.3688136Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is a fundamental technique for online advertising recommendation and the complex online competitive auction process also brings many difficulties to CTR optimization. Recent studies have shown that introducing ...
- research-articleOctober 2024
FLIP: Fine-grained Alignment between ID-based Models and Pretrained Language Models for CTR Prediction
RecSys '24: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender SystemsPages 94–104https://doi.org/10.1145/3640457.3688106Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays as a core function module in various personalized online services. The traditional ID-based models for CTR prediction take as inputs the one-hot encoded ID features of tabular modality, which capture the ...
- research-articleOctober 2024
Towards Open-World Recommendation with Knowledge Augmentation from Large Language Models
- Yunjia Xi,
- Weiwen Liu,
- Jianghao Lin,
- Xiaoling Cai,
- Hong Zhu,
- Jieming Zhu,
- Bo Chen,
- Ruiming Tang,
- Weinan Zhang,
- Yong Yu
RecSys '24: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender SystemsPages 12–22https://doi.org/10.1145/3640457.3688104Recommender system plays a vital role in various online services. However, its insulated nature of training and deploying separately within a specific closed domain limits its access to open-world knowledge. Recently, the emergence of large language ...
- research-articleAugust 2024
DisCo: Towards Harmonious Disentanglement and Collaboration between Tabular and Semantic Space for Recommendation
- Kounianhua Du,
- Jizheng Chen,
- Jianghao Lin,
- Yunjia Xi,
- Hangyu Wang,
- Xinyi Dai,
- Bo Chen,
- Ruiming Tang,
- Weinan Zhang
KDD '24: Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data MiningPages 666–676https://doi.org/10.1145/3637528.3672008Recommender systems play important roles in various applications such as e-commerce, social media, etc. Conventional recommendation methods usually model the collaborative signals within the tabular representation space. Despite the personalization ...
- research-articleAugust 2024
ERASE: Benchmarking Feature Selection Methods for Deep Recommender Systems
- Pengyue Jia,
- Yejing Wang,
- Zhaocheng Du,
- Xiangyu Zhao,
- Yichao Wang,
- Bo Chen,
- Wanyu Wang,
- Huifeng Guo,
- Ruiming Tang
KDD '24: Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data MiningPages 5194–5205https://doi.org/10.1145/3637528.3671571Deep Recommender Systems (DRS) are increasingly dependent on a large number of feature fields for more precise recommendations. Effective feature selection methods are consequently becoming critical for further enhancing the accuracy and optimizing ...
- research-articleJuly 2024
Utility-Oriented Reranking with Counterfactual Context
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), Volume 18, Issue 8Article No.: 193, Pages 1–22https://doi.org/10.1145/3671004As a critical task for large-scale commercial recommender systems, reranking rearranges items in the initial ranking lists from the previous ranking stage to better meet users’ demands. Foundational work in reranking has shown the potential of improving ...
- short-paperMay 2024
Recall-Augmented Ranking: Enhancing Click-Through Rate Prediction Accuracy with Cross-Stage Data
WWW '24: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024Pages 830–833https://doi.org/10.1145/3589335.3651551Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays an indispensable role in online recommendation and advertising platforms. Numerous deep learning based models have been proposed to improve CTR prediction accuracy, and they typically leverage user behavior ...
- research-articleMay 2024
HiFI: Hierarchical Fairness-aware Integrated Ranking with Constrained Reinforcement Learning
WWW '24: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024Pages 196–205https://doi.org/10.1145/3589335.3648317Integrated ranking is a critical component in industrial recommendation platforms. It combines candidate lists from different upstream channels or sources and ranks them into an integrated list, which will be exposed to users. During this process, to ...