Representation Learning-Assisted Click-Through Rate Prediction

Representation Learning-Assisted Click-Through Rate Prediction

Wentao Ouyang, Xiuwu Zhang, Shukui Ren, Chao Qi, Zhaojie Liu, Yanlong Du

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 4561-4567. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/634

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a critical task in online advertising systems. Most existing methods mainly model the feature-CTR relationship and suffer from the data sparsity issue. In this paper, we propose DeepMCP, which models other types of relationships in order to learn more informative and statistically reliable feature representations, and in consequence to improve the performance of CTR prediction. In particular, DeepMCP contains three parts: a matching subnet, a correlation subnet and a prediction subnet. These subnets model the user-ad, ad-ad and feature-CTR relationship respectively. When these subnets are jointly optimized under the supervision of the target labels, the learned feature representations have both good prediction powers and good representation abilities. Experiments on two large-scale datasets demonstrate that DeepMCP outperforms several state-of-the-art models for CTR prediction.
Keywords:
Machine Learning Applications: Applications of Supervised Learning
Machine Learning Applications: Other Applications