STEC: See-Through Transformer-based Encoder for CTR Prediction

Fuente: arXiv
Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Hauptverfasser: Dilbaz, Serdarcan, Saribas, Hasan
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2023
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
_version_ 1866910453363376128
author Dilbaz, Serdarcan
Saribas, Hasan
author_facet Dilbaz, Serdarcan
Saribas, Hasan
contents Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction holds a pivotal place in online advertising and recommender systems since CTR prediction performance directly influences the overall satisfaction of the users and the revenue generated by companies. Even so, CTR prediction is still an active area of research since it involves accurately modelling the preferences of users based on sparse and high-dimensional features where the higher-order interactions of multiple features can lead to different outcomes. Most CTR prediction models have relied on a single fusion and interaction learning strategy. The few CTR prediction models that have utilized multiple interaction modelling strategies have treated each interaction to be self-contained. In this paper, we propose a novel model named STEC that reaps the benefits of multiple interaction learning approaches in a single unified architecture. Additionally, our model introduces residual connections from different orders of interactions which boosts the performance by allowing lower level interactions to directly affect the predictions. Through extensive experiments on four real-world datasets, we demonstrate that STEC outperforms existing state-of-the-art approaches for CTR prediction thanks to its greater expressive capabilities.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2308_15033
institution arXiv
publishDate 2023
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle STEC: See-Through Transformer-based Encoder for CTR Prediction
Dilbaz, Serdarcan
Saribas, Hasan
Information Retrieval
Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction holds a pivotal place in online advertising and recommender systems since CTR prediction performance directly influences the overall satisfaction of the users and the revenue generated by companies. Even so, CTR prediction is still an active area of research since it involves accurately modelling the preferences of users based on sparse and high-dimensional features where the higher-order interactions of multiple features can lead to different outcomes. Most CTR prediction models have relied on a single fusion and interaction learning strategy. The few CTR prediction models that have utilized multiple interaction modelling strategies have treated each interaction to be self-contained. In this paper, we propose a novel model named STEC that reaps the benefits of multiple interaction learning approaches in a single unified architecture. Additionally, our model introduces residual connections from different orders of interactions which boosts the performance by allowing lower level interactions to directly affect the predictions. Through extensive experiments on four real-world datasets, we demonstrate that STEC outperforms existing state-of-the-art approaches for CTR prediction thanks to its greater expressive capabilities.
title STEC: See-Through Transformer-based Encoder for CTR Prediction
topic Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15033