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New User Foundation Model Enhances Open Web Browsing Data Analysis

Researchers have developed a new user foundation model designed for the open web, addressing the challenges of fragmented and non-persistent user identities. This model utilizes self-supervised learning on user browsing histories, applying a Transformer encoder pre-trained with masked language modeling and a sequence-level contrastive objective. The approach has shown significant improvements in downstream production tasks, including a 2.13% increase in CTR and a 1.13% decrease in eCPC during a 7-day A/B test. AI

IMPACT This research could improve personalization and ad targeting on the open web by better utilizing fragmented user data.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a new model and its performance evaluation. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New User Foundation Model Enhances Open Web Browsing Data Analysis

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Solal Vernier, Ivan Can Arisoy, Merwan Barlier, Bla\v{z} \v{S}krlj ·

    Building a User Foundation Model for the Open Web

    arXiv:2607.28019v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: User foundation models have demonstrated strong results in e-commerce and social recommendation, but most industrial deployments assume environments where user identity is stable and persistent. Open-web real-time bidding (RTB) oper…