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FLMNet advances CTR prediction with novel self-distillation technique

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Researchers have developed FLMNet, a novel approach to click-through rate (CTR) prediction that improves accuracy by learning from averaged predictions without relying on random sampling. This method, inspired by self-distillation techniques used in models like FinalNet and QNN, focuses on the disagreement between network copies trained from different seeds. FLMNet demonstrates superior performance on five benchmarks against seventeen baselines, achieving top accuracy with a single network at inference time. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Yifei Du ·

    FLMNet: Self-Ensemble Distillation from Masks to Seeds for Single-Tower CTR Prediction

    Click-through rate (CTR) prediction underpins recommender systems and online advertising, where high-dimensional categorical features interact in combinatorially many ways. Several recent CTR models, such as FinalNet and QNN, report higher accuracy when a network also learns from…

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