Zhentao Song

Zhentao Song, Yufeng Gao, Xing Fang et al.

In industrial search and ranking systems, Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is shifting from traditional Deep Learning Recommendation Models (DLRM) toward unified, compute-intensive Transformer architectures. This transition is driven by the need to improve Model FLOPs Utilization (MFU) and achieve predictable gains through scaling laws. However, existing approaches such as OneTrans and Climber often adopt an all-in-tokenization strategy when adapting Large Language Model (LLM) architectures, overlooking the heterogeneous nature of ranking features. We propose TmallGS, a scalable ranking architecture for Tmall search. TmallGS includes five key components: (1) Hierarchical Distribution-Calibrated Tokenization, which combines Field-wise Saliency Reweighting (FSR) and Distribution-Calibrated Projection (DCP) to map diverse features into optimized subspaces; (2) a Field-Adaptive Gated Transformer Backbone with per-field QKV projections and noise-adaptive gating for refined semantic interaction; (3) Decoupled FiLM Late Fusion to preserve explicit high-frequency signals; (4) a Context-Aware Bias Net to decouple systemic bias from user intent; and (5) Error-Aware Progressive Training with dynamically weighted losses for robust learning. Extensive offline experiments and online A/B tests on Tmall Search show that TmallGS improves training throughput and achieves substantial gains in UCTCVR and GMV.

Yipin Dai, Ruocong Tang, Xing Fang et al.

Sequential recommendation models predominantly interpret user interactions as positive signals for preference accumulation. However, in e-commerce scenarios, a purchase action often signifies the termination of a specific intent ("Interest Exit") rather than its continuation. Existing models overlook this distinction, suffering from Action-Intent Asymmetry, which leads to severe post-purchase redundancy. In this paper, we propose the Satiation-Aware Mechanism (SAM), an end-to-end framework designed to explicitly model the lifecycle of user interests. SAM incorporates three key components: (1) A Dual-path Cross-Attention architecture that retroactively suppresses historical clicks associated with a fulfilled intent while simultaneously retrieving personalized replenishment rhythms from long-term purchase history; (2) An Adaptive Satiation Gating Unit (ASGU) that generates a time-sensitive soft mask to inhibit satisfied interests immediately after purchase and gradually "re-awaken" them as the predicted repurchase cycle approaches; and (3) A self-supervised Time-to-Next-Purchase (TTNP) auxiliary task to learn latent product lifecycles without manual annotation. Extensive offline experiments on industrial datasets and online A/B testing demonstrate that SAM significantly reduces the Post-Purchase Repeat Rate (PPRR) by over 60%.