MIM: Multi-modal Content Interest Modeling Paradigm for User Behavior Modeling

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yan, Bencheng, Chen, Si, Jia, Shichang, Liu, Jianyu, Liu, Yueran, Fu, Chenghan, Guan, Wanxian, Zhao, Hui, Zhang, Xiang, Zhang, Kai, Su, Wenbo, Wang, Pengjie, Xu, Jian, Zheng, Bo, Liu, Baolin
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866917933410680832
author Yan, Bencheng
Chen, Si
Jia, Shichang
Liu, Jianyu
Liu, Yueran
Fu, Chenghan
Guan, Wanxian
Zhao, Hui
Zhang, Xiang
Zhang, Kai
Su, Wenbo
Wang, Pengjie
Xu, Jian
Zheng, Bo
Liu, Baolin
author_facet Yan, Bencheng
Chen, Si
Jia, Shichang
Liu, Jianyu
Liu, Yueran
Fu, Chenghan
Guan, Wanxian
Zhao, Hui
Zhang, Xiang
Zhang, Kai
Su, Wenbo
Wang, Pengjie
Xu, Jian
Zheng, Bo
Liu, Baolin
contents Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial task in recommendation systems, online searches, and advertising platforms, where accurately capturing users' real interests in content is essential for performance. However, existing methods heavily rely on ID embeddings, which fail to reflect users' true preferences for content such as images and titles. This limitation becomes particularly evident in cold-start and long-tail scenarios, where traditional approaches struggle to deliver effective results. To address these challenges, we propose a novel Multi-modal Content Interest Modeling paradigm (MIM), which consists of three key stages: Pre-training, Content-Interest-Aware Supervised Fine-Tuning (C-SFT), and Content-Interest-Aware UBM (CiUBM). The pre-training stage adapts foundational models to domain-specific data, enabling the extraction of high-quality multi-modal embeddings. The C-SFT stage bridges the semantic gap between content and user interests by leveraging user behavior signals to guide the alignment of embeddings with user preferences. Finally, the CiUBM stage integrates multi-modal embeddings and ID-based collaborative filtering signals into a unified framework. Comprehensive offline experiments and online A/B tests conducted on the Taobao, one of the world's largest e-commerce platforms, demonstrated the effectiveness and efficiency of MIM method. The method has been successfully deployed online, achieving a significant increase of +14.14% in CTR and +4.12% in RPM, showcasing its industrial applicability and substantial impact on platform performance. To promote further research, we have publicly released the code and dataset at https://pan.quark.cn/s/8fc8ec3e74f3.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2502_00321
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle MIM: Multi-modal Content Interest Modeling Paradigm for User Behavior Modeling
Yan, Bencheng
Chen, Si
Jia, Shichang
Liu, Jianyu
Liu, Yueran
Fu, Chenghan
Guan, Wanxian
Zhao, Hui
Zhang, Xiang
Zhang, Kai
Su, Wenbo
Wang, Pengjie
Xu, Jian
Zheng, Bo
Liu, Baolin
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial task in recommendation systems, online searches, and advertising platforms, where accurately capturing users' real interests in content is essential for performance. However, existing methods heavily rely on ID embeddings, which fail to reflect users' true preferences for content such as images and titles. This limitation becomes particularly evident in cold-start and long-tail scenarios, where traditional approaches struggle to deliver effective results. To address these challenges, we propose a novel Multi-modal Content Interest Modeling paradigm (MIM), which consists of three key stages: Pre-training, Content-Interest-Aware Supervised Fine-Tuning (C-SFT), and Content-Interest-Aware UBM (CiUBM). The pre-training stage adapts foundational models to domain-specific data, enabling the extraction of high-quality multi-modal embeddings. The C-SFT stage bridges the semantic gap between content and user interests by leveraging user behavior signals to guide the alignment of embeddings with user preferences. Finally, the CiUBM stage integrates multi-modal embeddings and ID-based collaborative filtering signals into a unified framework. Comprehensive offline experiments and online A/B tests conducted on the Taobao, one of the world's largest e-commerce platforms, demonstrated the effectiveness and efficiency of MIM method. The method has been successfully deployed online, achieving a significant increase of +14.14% in CTR and +4.12% in RPM, showcasing its industrial applicability and substantial impact on platform performance. To promote further research, we have publicly released the code and dataset at https://pan.quark.cn/s/8fc8ec3e74f3.
title MIM: Multi-modal Content Interest Modeling Paradigm for User Behavior Modeling
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00321