CTR Prediction

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction aims to accurately estimate the probability of a user clicking on a recommended item or advertisement, a crucial task in online advertising and recommender systems. Current research emphasizes improving CTR prediction by addressing challenges like cold-start problems (lack of data for new items or users), modeling long-term user behavior and context, and efficiently handling high-dimensional data through techniques such as graph neural networks, deep learning architectures with attention mechanisms, and knowledge distillation. These advancements lead to more effective personalized recommendations and improved revenue generation for online platforms, impacting both the scientific understanding of user behavior and the practical performance of large-scale systems.

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