Julie Choi

Lars Hertel, Gaurav Srivastava, Syed Ali Naqvi et al.

LinkedIn Feed enables professionals worldwide to discover relevant content, build connections, and share knowledge at scale. We present Feed Sequential Recommender (Feed SR), a transformer-based sequential ranking model for LinkedIn Feed that replaces a DCNv2-based ranker and meets strict production constraints. We detail the modeling choices, training techniques, and serving optimizations that enable deployment at a scale of 1.2 billion members. Feed SR has been serving the majority of LinkedIn's Feed traffic for over three months and shows significant improvements in member engagement (+2.10% time spent, +3.52% like, comments, or reshares) in online A/B tests compared to the existing production model. We also describe our deployment experience with alternative sequential and LLM-based ranking architectures and why Feed SR provided the best combination of online metrics and production efficiency.

Julie Choi

There has been a rising interest in graph neural networks (GNNs) for representation learning over the past few years. GNNs provide a general and efficient framework to learn from graph-structured data. However, GNNs typically only use the information of a very limited neighborhood for each node to avoid over-smoothing. A larger neighborhood would be desirable to provide the model with more information. In this work, we incorporate the limit distribution of Personalized PageRank (PPR) into graph attention networks (GATs) to reflect the larger neighbor information without introducing over-smoothing. Intuitively, message aggregation based on Personalized PageRank corresponds to infinitely many neighborhood aggregation layers. We show that our models outperform a variety of baseline models for four widely used benchmark datasets. Our implementation is publicly available online.

Shihai He, Julie Choi, Tianqi Li et al.

Notification recommendation systems are critical to driving user engagement on professional platforms like LinkedIn. Designing such systems involves integrating heterogeneous signals across domains, capturing temporal dynamics, and optimizing for multiple, often competing, objectives. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) provide a powerful framework for modeling complex interactions in such environments. In this paper, we present a cross-domain GNN-based system deployed at LinkedIn that unifies user, content, and activity signals into a single, large-scale graph. By training on this cross-domain structure, our model significantly outperforms single-domain baselines on key tasks, including click-through rate (CTR) prediction and professional engagement. We introduce architectural innovations including temporal modeling and multi-task learning, which further enhance performance. Deployed in LinkedIn's notification system, our approach led to a 0.10% lift in weekly active users and a 0.62% improvement in CTR. We detail our graph construction process, model design, training pipeline, and both offline and online evaluations. Our work demonstrates the scalability and effectiveness of cross-domain GNNs in real-world, high-impact applications.