Improving feature interactions at Pinterest under industry constraints

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Auteurs principaux: Malreddy, Siddarth, Lawhon, Matthew, Nookala, Usha Amrutha, Mantha, Aditya, Badani, Dhruvil Deven
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author Malreddy, Siddarth
Lawhon, Matthew
Nookala, Usha Amrutha
Mantha, Aditya
Badani, Dhruvil Deven
author_facet Malreddy, Siddarth
Lawhon, Matthew
Nookala, Usha Amrutha
Mantha, Aditya
Badani, Dhruvil Deven
contents Adopting advances in recommendation systems is often challenging in industrial settings due to unique constraints. This paper aims to highlight these constraints through the lens of feature interactions. Feature interactions are critical for accurately predicting user behavior in recommendation systems and online advertising. Despite numerous novel techniques showing superior performance on benchmark datasets like Criteo, their direct application in industrial settings is hindered by constraints such as model latency, GPU memory limitations and model reproducibility. In this paper, we share our learnings from improving feature interactions in Pinterest's Homefeed ranking model under such constraints. We provide details about the specific challenges encountered, the strategies employed to address them, and the trade-offs made to balance performance with practical limitations. Additionally, we present a set of learning experiments that help guide the feature interaction architecture selection. We believe these insights will be useful for engineers who are interested in improving their model through better feature interaction learning.
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spellingShingle Improving feature interactions at Pinterest under industry constraints
Malreddy, Siddarth
Lawhon, Matthew
Nookala, Usha Amrutha
Mantha, Aditya
Badani, Dhruvil Deven
Information Retrieval
Adopting advances in recommendation systems is often challenging in industrial settings due to unique constraints. This paper aims to highlight these constraints through the lens of feature interactions. Feature interactions are critical for accurately predicting user behavior in recommendation systems and online advertising. Despite numerous novel techniques showing superior performance on benchmark datasets like Criteo, their direct application in industrial settings is hindered by constraints such as model latency, GPU memory limitations and model reproducibility. In this paper, we share our learnings from improving feature interactions in Pinterest's Homefeed ranking model under such constraints. We provide details about the specific challenges encountered, the strategies employed to address them, and the trade-offs made to balance performance with practical limitations. Additionally, we present a set of learning experiments that help guide the feature interaction architecture selection. We believe these insights will be useful for engineers who are interested in improving their model through better feature interaction learning.
title Improving feature interactions at Pinterest under industry constraints
topic Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01985