Warming Up Cold-Start CTR Prediction by Learning Item-Specific Feature Interactions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10112v1
• Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 07:58:13 GMT
• Title: Warming Up Cold-Start CTR Prediction by Learning Item-Specific Feature Interactions
• Authors: Yaqing Wang, Hongming Piao, Daxiang Dong, Quanming Yao, Jingbo Zhou,
• Abstract summary: EmerG is a novel approach that warms up cold-start CTR prediction by learning item-specific feature interaction patterns. EmerG consistently performs the best given no, a few and sufficient instances of new items.
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• Abstract: In recommendation systems, new items are continuously introduced, initially lacking interaction records but gradually accumulating them over time. Accurately predicting the click-through rate (CTR) for these items is crucial for enhancing both revenue and user experience. While existing methods focus on enhancing item ID embeddings for new items within general CTR models, they tend to adopt a global feature interaction approach, often overshadowing new items with sparse data by those with abundant interactions. Addressing this, our work introduces EmerG, a novel approach that warms up cold-start CTR prediction by learning item-specific feature interaction patterns. EmerG utilizes hypernetworks to generate an item-specific feature graph based on item characteristics, which is then processed by a Graph Neural Network (GNN). This GNN is specially tailored to provably capture feature interactions at any order through a customized message passing mechanism. We further design a meta learning strategy that optimizes parameters of hypernetworks and GNN across various item CTR prediction tasks, while only adjusting a minimal set of item-specific parameters within each task. This strategy effectively reduces the risk of overfitting when dealing with limited data. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets validate that EmerG consistently performs the best given no, a few and sufficient instances of new items.

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