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LazFormer: Transformer scaling for industrial recommendation

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Researchers have introduced LazFormer, a novel approach to scaling Transformer models for industrial recommendation systems. This method addresses limitations in current pre-training and ranking processes by employing a generative pre-training module for better parameter initialization. LazFormer also incorporates a transferable residual adapter to mitigate negative transfer issues and a request-aware ranking module designed for efficient modeling of long user sequences. AI

IMPACT Introduces a novel method for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of Transformer models in industrial recommendation systems.

RANK_REASON Academic paper detailing a new model architecture and training methodology. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

Read on arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) →

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LazFormer: Transformer scaling for industrial recommendation

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Xiaoyi Zeng ·

    LazFormer: Scaling Transformers for Industrial Recommendation via Transferable Generative Pre-training

    Transformers have shown promising performance in LLMs due to their outstanding scalability, several studies have investigated the scalability of Transformers for industrial recommendation. They typically rely on a single ranking model to optimize both sparse and dense parameters …

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