MoE-MLoRA for Multi-Domain CTR Prediction: Efficient Adaptation with Expert Specialization

Fuente: arXiv
Salvato in:
Dettagli Bibliografici
Autori principali: Yaggel, Ken, German, Eyal, Tov, Aviel Ben Siman
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2025
Soggetti:
Accesso online:
Tags: Aggiungi Tag
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!
_version_ 1866908403561922560
author Yaggel, Ken
German, Eyal
Tov, Aviel Ben Siman
author_facet Yaggel, Ken
German, Eyal
Tov, Aviel Ben Siman
contents Personalized recommendation systems must adapt to user interactions across different domains. Traditional approaches like MLoRA apply a single adaptation per domain but lack flexibility in handling diverse user behaviors. To address this, we propose MoE-MLoRA, a mixture-of-experts framework where each expert is first trained independently to specialize in its domain before a gating network is trained to weight their contributions dynamically. We evaluate MoE-MLoRA across eight CTR models on Movielens and Taobao, showing that it improves performance in large-scale, dynamic datasets (+1.45 Weighed-AUC in Taobao-20) but offers limited benefits in structured datasets with low domain diversity and sparsity. Further analysis of the number of experts per domain reveals that larger ensembles do not always improve performance, indicating the need for model-aware tuning. Our findings highlight the potential of expert-based architectures for multi-domain recommendation systems, demonstrating that task-aware specialization and adaptive gating can enhance predictive accuracy in complex environments. The implementation and code are available in our GitHub repository.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2506_07563
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle MoE-MLoRA for Multi-Domain CTR Prediction: Efficient Adaptation with Expert Specialization
Yaggel, Ken
German, Eyal
Tov, Aviel Ben Siman
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Personalized recommendation systems must adapt to user interactions across different domains. Traditional approaches like MLoRA apply a single adaptation per domain but lack flexibility in handling diverse user behaviors. To address this, we propose MoE-MLoRA, a mixture-of-experts framework where each expert is first trained independently to specialize in its domain before a gating network is trained to weight their contributions dynamically. We evaluate MoE-MLoRA across eight CTR models on Movielens and Taobao, showing that it improves performance in large-scale, dynamic datasets (+1.45 Weighed-AUC in Taobao-20) but offers limited benefits in structured datasets with low domain diversity and sparsity. Further analysis of the number of experts per domain reveals that larger ensembles do not always improve performance, indicating the need for model-aware tuning. Our findings highlight the potential of expert-based architectures for multi-domain recommendation systems, demonstrating that task-aware specialization and adaptive gating can enhance predictive accuracy in complex environments. The implementation and code are available in our GitHub repository.
title MoE-MLoRA for Multi-Domain CTR Prediction: Efficient Adaptation with Expert Specialization
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07563