Large Scalable Cross-Domain Graph Neural Networks for Personalized Notification at LinkedIn

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Auteurs principaux: He, Shihai, Choi, Julie, Li, Tianqi, Ding, Zhiwei, Du, Peng, Bannur, Priya, Liang, Franco, Borisyuk, Fedor, Jaikumar, Padmini, Xue, Xiaobing, Gupta, Viral
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author He, Shihai
Choi, Julie
Li, Tianqi
Ding, Zhiwei
Du, Peng
Bannur, Priya
Liang, Franco
Borisyuk, Fedor
Jaikumar, Padmini
Xue, Xiaobing
Gupta, Viral
author_facet He, Shihai
Choi, Julie
Li, Tianqi
Ding, Zhiwei
Du, Peng
Bannur, Priya
Liang, Franco
Borisyuk, Fedor
Jaikumar, Padmini
Xue, Xiaobing
Gupta, Viral
contents Notification recommendation systems are critical to driving user engagement on professional platforms like LinkedIn. Designing such systems involves integrating heterogeneous signals across domains, capturing temporal dynamics, and optimizing for multiple, often competing, objectives. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) provide a powerful framework for modeling complex interactions in such environments. In this paper, we present a cross-domain GNN-based system deployed at LinkedIn that unifies user, content, and activity signals into a single, large-scale graph. By training on this cross-domain structure, our model significantly outperforms single-domain baselines on key tasks, including click-through rate (CTR) prediction and professional engagement. We introduce architectural innovations including temporal modeling and multi-task learning, which further enhance performance. Deployed in LinkedIn's notification system, our approach led to a 0.10% lift in weekly active users and a 0.62% improvement in CTR. We detail our graph construction process, model design, training pipeline, and both offline and online evaluations. Our work demonstrates the scalability and effectiveness of cross-domain GNNs in real-world, high-impact applications.
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spellingShingle Large Scalable Cross-Domain Graph Neural Networks for Personalized Notification at LinkedIn
He, Shihai
Choi, Julie
Li, Tianqi
Ding, Zhiwei
Du, Peng
Bannur, Priya
Liang, Franco
Borisyuk, Fedor
Jaikumar, Padmini
Xue, Xiaobing
Gupta, Viral
Machine Learning
68R10
Notification recommendation systems are critical to driving user engagement on professional platforms like LinkedIn. Designing such systems involves integrating heterogeneous signals across domains, capturing temporal dynamics, and optimizing for multiple, often competing, objectives. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) provide a powerful framework for modeling complex interactions in such environments. In this paper, we present a cross-domain GNN-based system deployed at LinkedIn that unifies user, content, and activity signals into a single, large-scale graph. By training on this cross-domain structure, our model significantly outperforms single-domain baselines on key tasks, including click-through rate (CTR) prediction and professional engagement. We introduce architectural innovations including temporal modeling and multi-task learning, which further enhance performance. Deployed in LinkedIn's notification system, our approach led to a 0.10% lift in weekly active users and a 0.62% improvement in CTR. We detail our graph construction process, model design, training pipeline, and both offline and online evaluations. Our work demonstrates the scalability and effectiveness of cross-domain GNNs in real-world, high-impact applications.
title Large Scalable Cross-Domain Graph Neural Networks for Personalized Notification at LinkedIn
topic Machine Learning
68R10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12700