Ads Recommendation in a Collapsed and Entangled World

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Main Authors: Pan, Junwei, Xue, Wei, Wang, Ximei, Yu, Haibin, Liu, Xun, Quan, Shijie, Qiu, Xueming, Liu, Dapeng, Xiao, Lei, Jiang, Jie
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author Pan, Junwei
Xue, Wei
Wang, Ximei
Yu, Haibin
Liu, Xun
Quan, Shijie
Qiu, Xueming
Liu, Dapeng
Xiao, Lei
Jiang, Jie
author_facet Pan, Junwei
Xue, Wei
Wang, Ximei
Yu, Haibin
Liu, Xun
Quan, Shijie
Qiu, Xueming
Liu, Dapeng
Xiao, Lei
Jiang, Jie
contents We present Tencent's ads recommendation system and examine the challenges and practices of learning appropriate recommendation representations. Our study begins by showcasing our approaches to preserving prior knowledge when encoding features of diverse types into embedding representations. We specifically address sequence features, numeric features, and pre-trained embedding features. Subsequently, we delve into two crucial challenges related to feature representation: the dimensional collapse of embeddings and the interest entanglement across different tasks or scenarios. We propose several practical approaches to address these challenges that result in robust and disentangled recommendation representations. We then explore several training techniques to facilitate model optimization, reduce bias, and enhance exploration. Additionally, we introduce three analysis tools that enable us to study feature correlation, dimensional collapse, and interest entanglement. This work builds upon the continuous efforts of Tencent's ads recommendation team over the past decade. It summarizes general design principles and presents a series of readily applicable solutions and analysis tools. The reported performance is based on our online advertising platform, which handles hundreds of billions of requests daily and serves millions of ads to billions of users.
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spellingShingle Ads Recommendation in a Collapsed and Entangled World
Pan, Junwei
Xue, Wei
Wang, Ximei
Yu, Haibin
Liu, Xun
Quan, Shijie
Qiu, Xueming
Liu, Dapeng
Xiao, Lei
Jiang, Jie
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
We present Tencent's ads recommendation system and examine the challenges and practices of learning appropriate recommendation representations. Our study begins by showcasing our approaches to preserving prior knowledge when encoding features of diverse types into embedding representations. We specifically address sequence features, numeric features, and pre-trained embedding features. Subsequently, we delve into two crucial challenges related to feature representation: the dimensional collapse of embeddings and the interest entanglement across different tasks or scenarios. We propose several practical approaches to address these challenges that result in robust and disentangled recommendation representations. We then explore several training techniques to facilitate model optimization, reduce bias, and enhance exploration. Additionally, we introduce three analysis tools that enable us to study feature correlation, dimensional collapse, and interest entanglement. This work builds upon the continuous efforts of Tencent's ads recommendation team over the past decade. It summarizes general design principles and presents a series of readily applicable solutions and analysis tools. The reported performance is based on our online advertising platform, which handles hundreds of billions of requests daily and serves millions of ads to billions of users.
title Ads Recommendation in a Collapsed and Entangled World
topic Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00793