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STAR framework enhances PCVR prediction in recommender systems · 2 sources tracked

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Researchers have developed STAR, a framework for post-click conversion rate (PCVR) prediction in recommender systems. This framework addresses challenges with heterogeneous features, user sequences, and target-aware interests. STAR integrates structured feature tokenization with target-aware interest representation, building upon a HyFormer-style backbone. Key innovations include high-cardinality signal recovery, explicit user-item interaction tokens, and a contrastive auxiliary objective inspired by InfoNCE. The system also aligns training and inference pipelines to ensure robustness. AI

IMPACT This framework could improve the accuracy and robustness of recommender systems, leading to better user experiences and more effective advertising.

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Lan Ma ·

    STAR: Structured Tokenization and Target-Aware Interest Representation for PCVR Prediction

    Post-click conversion rate (PCVR) prediction is a core ranking task in industrial recommender systems. Modern ranking models must jointly capture heterogeneous non-sequential features, multi-behavior user sequences, and target-item-aware user interests, while remaining robust to …

  2. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Lan Ma ·

    STAR: Structured Tokenization and Target-Aware Interest Representation for PCVR Prediction

    Post-click conversion rate (PCVR) prediction is a core ranking task in industrial recommender systems. Modern ranking models must jointly capture heterogeneous non-sequential features, multi-behavior user sequences, and target-item-aware user interests, while remaining robust to …

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