A Learnable Fully Interacted Two-Tower Model for Pre-Ranking System

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Main Authors: Xiong, Chao, Yu, Xianwen, Xu, Wei, Cheng, Lei, Yuan, Chuan, Mo, Linjian
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author Xiong, Chao
Yu, Xianwen
Xu, Wei
Cheng, Lei
Yuan, Chuan
Mo, Linjian
author_facet Xiong, Chao
Yu, Xianwen
Xu, Wei
Cheng, Lei
Yuan, Chuan
Mo, Linjian
contents Pre-ranking plays a crucial role in large-scale recommender systems by significantly improving the efficiency and scalability within the constraints of providing high-quality candidate sets in real time. The two-tower model is widely used in pre-ranking systems due to a good balance between efficiency and effectiveness with decoupled architecture, which independently processes user and item inputs before calculating their interaction (e.g. dot product or similarity measure). However, this independence also leads to the lack of information interaction between the two towers, resulting in less effectiveness. In this paper, a novel architecture named learnable Fully Interacted Two-tower Model (FIT) is proposed, which enables rich information interactions while ensuring inference efficiency. FIT mainly consists of two parts: Meta Query Module (MQM) and Lightweight Similarity Scorer (LSS). Specifically, MQM introduces a learnable item meta matrix to achieve expressive early interaction between user and item features. Moreover, LSS is designed to further obtain effective late interaction between the user and item towers. Finally, experimental results on several public datasets show that our proposed FIT significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art baseline pre-ranking models.
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spellingShingle A Learnable Fully Interacted Two-Tower Model for Pre-Ranking System
Xiong, Chao
Yu, Xianwen
Xu, Wei
Cheng, Lei
Yuan, Chuan
Mo, Linjian
Information Retrieval
Pre-ranking plays a crucial role in large-scale recommender systems by significantly improving the efficiency and scalability within the constraints of providing high-quality candidate sets in real time. The two-tower model is widely used in pre-ranking systems due to a good balance between efficiency and effectiveness with decoupled architecture, which independently processes user and item inputs before calculating their interaction (e.g. dot product or similarity measure). However, this independence also leads to the lack of information interaction between the two towers, resulting in less effectiveness. In this paper, a novel architecture named learnable Fully Interacted Two-tower Model (FIT) is proposed, which enables rich information interactions while ensuring inference efficiency. FIT mainly consists of two parts: Meta Query Module (MQM) and Lightweight Similarity Scorer (LSS). Specifically, MQM introduces a learnable item meta matrix to achieve expressive early interaction between user and item features. Moreover, LSS is designed to further obtain effective late interaction between the user and item towers. Finally, experimental results on several public datasets show that our proposed FIT significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art baseline pre-ranking models.
title A Learnable Fully Interacted Two-Tower Model for Pre-Ranking System
topic Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12948