DTN: Deep Multiple Task-specific Feature Interactions Network for Multi-Task Recommendation

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Main Authors: Bi, Yaowen, Lian, Yuteng, Cui, Jie, Liu, Jun, Wang, Peijian, Li, Guanghui, Chen, Xuejun, Zhao, Jinglin, Wen, Hao, Zhang, Jing, Zhang, Zhaoqi, Song, Wenzhuo, Sun, Yang, Zhang, Weiwei, Cai, Mingchen, Dong, Jian, Zhang, Guanxing
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author Bi, Yaowen
Lian, Yuteng
Cui, Jie
Liu, Jun
Wang, Peijian
Li, Guanghui
Chen, Xuejun
Zhao, Jinglin
Wen, Hao
Zhang, Jing
Zhang, Zhaoqi
Song, Wenzhuo
Sun, Yang
Zhang, Weiwei
Cai, Mingchen
Dong, Jian
Zhang, Guanxing
author_facet Bi, Yaowen
Lian, Yuteng
Cui, Jie
Liu, Jun
Wang, Peijian
Li, Guanghui
Chen, Xuejun
Zhao, Jinglin
Wen, Hao
Zhang, Jing
Zhang, Zhaoqi
Song, Wenzhuo
Sun, Yang
Zhang, Weiwei
Cai, Mingchen
Dong, Jian
Zhang, Guanxing
contents Neural-based multi-task learning (MTL) has been successfully applied to many recommendation applications. However, these MTL models (e.g., MMoE, PLE) did not consider feature interaction during the optimization, which is crucial for capturing complex high-order features and has been widely used in ranking models for real-world recommender systems. Moreover, through feature importance analysis across various tasks in MTL, we have observed an interesting divergence phenomenon that the same feature can have significantly different importance across different tasks in MTL. To address these issues, we propose Deep Multiple Task-specific Feature Interactions Network (DTN) with a novel model structure design. DTN introduces multiple diversified task-specific feature interaction methods and task-sensitive network in MTL networks, enabling the model to learn task-specific diversified feature interaction representations, which improves the efficiency of joint representation learning in a general setup. We applied DTN to our company's real-world E-commerce recommendation dataset, which consisted of over 6.3 billion samples, the results demonstrated that DTN significantly outperformed state-of-the-art MTL models. Moreover, during online evaluation of DTN in a large-scale E-commerce recommender system, we observed a 3.28% in clicks, a 3.10% increase in orders and a 2.70% increase in GMV (Gross Merchandise Value) compared to the state-of-the-art MTL models. Finally, extensive offline experiments conducted on public benchmark datasets demonstrate that DTN can be applied to various scenarios beyond recommendations, enhancing the performance of ranking models.
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spellingShingle DTN: Deep Multiple Task-specific Feature Interactions Network for Multi-Task Recommendation
Bi, Yaowen
Lian, Yuteng
Cui, Jie
Liu, Jun
Wang, Peijian
Li, Guanghui
Chen, Xuejun
Zhao, Jinglin
Wen, Hao
Zhang, Jing
Zhang, Zhaoqi
Song, Wenzhuo
Sun, Yang
Zhang, Weiwei
Cai, Mingchen
Dong, Jian
Zhang, Guanxing
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
Neural-based multi-task learning (MTL) has been successfully applied to many recommendation applications. However, these MTL models (e.g., MMoE, PLE) did not consider feature interaction during the optimization, which is crucial for capturing complex high-order features and has been widely used in ranking models for real-world recommender systems. Moreover, through feature importance analysis across various tasks in MTL, we have observed an interesting divergence phenomenon that the same feature can have significantly different importance across different tasks in MTL. To address these issues, we propose Deep Multiple Task-specific Feature Interactions Network (DTN) with a novel model structure design. DTN introduces multiple diversified task-specific feature interaction methods and task-sensitive network in MTL networks, enabling the model to learn task-specific diversified feature interaction representations, which improves the efficiency of joint representation learning in a general setup. We applied DTN to our company's real-world E-commerce recommendation dataset, which consisted of over 6.3 billion samples, the results demonstrated that DTN significantly outperformed state-of-the-art MTL models. Moreover, during online evaluation of DTN in a large-scale E-commerce recommender system, we observed a 3.28% in clicks, a 3.10% increase in orders and a 2.70% increase in GMV (Gross Merchandise Value) compared to the state-of-the-art MTL models. Finally, extensive offline experiments conducted on public benchmark datasets demonstrate that DTN can be applied to various scenarios beyond recommendations, enhancing the performance of ranking models.
title DTN: Deep Multiple Task-specific Feature Interactions Network for Multi-Task Recommendation
topic Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11611