fuxictr 2.0.1

A configurable, tunable, and reproducible library for CTR prediction

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Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a critical task for many industrial applications such as online advertising, recommender systems, and sponsored search. FuxiCTR provides an open-source library for CTR prediction, with key features in configurability, tunability, and reproducibility. We hope this project could benefit both researchers and practitioners with the goal of open benchmarking for CTR prediction tasks.

Key Features

• Configurable: Both data preprocessing and models are modularized and configurable.

• Tunable: Models can be automatically tuned through easy configurations.

• Reproducible: All the benchmarks can be easily reproduced.

• Extensible: It supports both pytorch and tensorflow models, and can be easily extended to any new models.

Model Zoo

No	Publication	Model	Paper	Benchmark	Version
			:point_down:Feature Interaction Models
1	WWW'07	LR	Predicting Clicks: Estimating the Click-Through Rate for New Ads :triangular_flag_on_post:Microsoft	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
2	ICDM'10	FM	Factorization Machines	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
3	CIKM'13	DSSM	Learning Deep Structured Semantic Models for Web Search using Clickthrough Data :triangular_flag_on_post:Microsoft	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
4	CIKM'15	CCPM	A Convolutional Click Prediction Model	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
5	RecSys'16	FFM	Field-aware Factorization Machines for CTR Prediction :triangular_flag_on_post:Criteo	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
6	RecSys'16	YoutubeDNN	Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations :triangular_flag_on_post:Google	:arrow_upper_right:	torch, tf
7	DLRS'16	Wide&Deep	Wide & Deep Learning for Recommender Systems :triangular_flag_on_post:Google	:arrow_upper_right:	torch, tf
8	ICDM'16	IPNN	Product-based Neural Networks for User Response Prediction	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
9	KDD'16	DeepCrossing	Deep Crossing: Web-Scale Modeling without Manually Crafted Combinatorial Features :triangular_flag_on_post:Microsoft	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
10	NIPS'16	HOFM	Higher-Order Factorization Machines	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
11	IJCAI'17	DeepFM	DeepFM: A Factorization-Machine based Neural Network for CTR Prediction :triangular_flag_on_post:Huawei	:arrow_upper_right:	torch, tf
12	SIGIR'17	NFM	Neural Factorization Machines for Sparse Predictive Analytics	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
13	IJCAI'17	AFM	Attentional Factorization Machines: Learning the Weight of Feature Interactions via Attention Networks	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
14	ADKDD'17	DCN	Deep & Cross Network for Ad Click Predictions :triangular_flag_on_post:Google	:arrow_upper_right:	torch, tf
15	WWW'18	FwFM	Field-weighted Factorization Machines for Click-Through Rate Prediction in Display Advertising :triangular_flag_on_post:Oath, TouchPal, LinkedIn, Alibaba	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
16	KDD'18	xDeepFM	xDeepFM: Combining Explicit and Implicit Feature Interactions for Recommender Systems :triangular_flag_on_post:Microsoft	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
17	CIKM'19	FiGNN	FiGNN: Modeling Feature Interactions via Graph Neural Networks for CTR Prediction	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
18	CIKM'19	AutoInt/AutoInt+	AutoInt: Automatic Feature Interaction Learning via Self-Attentive Neural Networks	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
19	RecSys'19	FiBiNET	FiBiNET: Combining Feature Importance and Bilinear feature Interaction for Click-Through Rate Prediction :triangular_flag_on_post:Sina Weibo	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
20	WWW'19	FGCNN	Feature Generation by Convolutional Neural Network for Click-Through Rate Prediction :triangular_flag_on_post:Huawei	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
21	AAAI'19	HFM/HFM+	Holographic Factorization Machines for Recommendation	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
22	Arxiv'19	DLRM	Deep Learning Recommendation Model for Personalization and Recommendation Systems :triangular_flag_on_post:Facebook	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
23	NeuralNetworks'20	ONN	Operation-aware Neural Networks for User Response Prediction	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
24	AAAI'20	AFN/AFN+	Adaptive Factorization Network: Learning Adaptive-Order Feature Interactions	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
25	AAAI'20	LorentzFM	Learning Feature Interactions with Lorentzian Factorization :triangular_flag_on_post:eBay	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
26	WSDM'20	InterHAt	Interpretable Click-through Rate Prediction through Hierarchical Attention :triangular_flag_on_post:NEC Labs, Google	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
27	DLP-KDD'20	FLEN	FLEN: Leveraging Field for Scalable CTR Prediction :triangular_flag_on_post:Tencent	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
28	CIKM'20	DeepIM	Deep Interaction Machine: A Simple but Effective Model for High-order Feature Interactions :triangular_flag_on_post:Alibaba, RealAI	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
29	WWW'21	FmFM	FM^2: Field-matrixed Factorization Machines for Recommender Systems :triangular_flag_on_post:Yahoo	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
30	WWW'21	DCN-V2	DCN V2: Improved Deep & Cross Network and Practical Lessons for Web-scale Learning to Rank Systems :triangular_flag_on_post:Google	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
31	CIKM'21	DESTINE	Disentangled Self-Attentive Neural Networks for Click-Through Rate Prediction :triangular_flag_on_post:Alibaba	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
32	CIKM'21	EDCN	Enhancing Explicit and Implicit Feature Interactions via Information Sharing for Parallel Deep CTR Models :triangular_flag_on_post:Huawei	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
33	DLP-KDD'21	MaskNet	MaskNet: Introducing Feature-Wise Multiplication to CTR Ranking Models by Instance-Guided Mask :triangular_flag_on_post:Sina Weibo	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
34	SIGIR'21	SAM	Looking at CTR Prediction Again: Is Attention All You Need? :triangular_flag_on_post:BOSS Zhipin	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
35	KDD'21	AOANet	Architecture and Operation Adaptive Network for Online Recommendations :triangular_flag_on_post:Didi Chuxing	:arrow_upper_right:	torch
36	Blog'21	PPNet	Parameter Personalized Net :triangular_flag_on_post:KuaiShou		torch
37	AAAI'23	FinalMLP	FinalMLP: An Enhanced Two-Stream MLP Model for CTR Prediction :triangular_flag_on_post:Huawei		torch
			:point_down:User Behavior Modeling
38	KDD'18	DIN	Deep Interest Network for Click-Through Rate Prediction :triangular_flag_on_post:Alibaba		torch
39	AAAI'19	DIEN	Deep Interest Evolution Network for Click-Through Rate Prediction :triangular_flag_on_post:Alibaba		torch
40	DLP-KDD'19	BST	Behavior Sequence Transformer for E-commerce Recommendation in Alibaba :triangular_flag_on_post:Alibaba		torch
41	CIKM'20	DMIN	Deep Multi-Interest Network for Click-through Rate Prediction :triangular_flag_on_post:Alibaba		torch
42	AAAI'20	DMR	Deep Match to Rank Model for Personalized Click-Through Rate Prediction :triangular_flag_on_post:Alibaba		torch
43	Arxiv'21	ETA	End-to-End User Behavior Retrieval in Click-Through RatePrediction Model :triangular_flag_on_post:Alibaba		torch
44	CIKM'22	SDIM	Sampling Is All You Need on Modeling Long-Term User Behaviors for CTR Prediction :triangular_flag_on_post:Meituan		torch

• :point_right: See reusable dataset splits for CTR prediction.
• :point_right: See benchmarking configurations and steps.
• :point_right: See the BARS benchmark website.

Dependencies

FuxiCTR has the following dependency requirements.

• python 3.6+
• pytorch 1.10+ (required only for torch models)
• tensorflow 2.1+ (required only for tf models)

Other packages can be installed via pip install -r requirements.txt.

Quick Start

1. Run the demo examples

   Examples are provided in the demo directory to show some basic usage of FuxiCTR. Users can run the examples for quick start and to understand the workflow.

   cd demo
   python example1_build_dataset_to_h5.py
   python example2_DeepFM_with_h5_input.py
   

2. Run an existing model

   Users can easily run each model in the model zoo following the commands below, which is a demo for running DCN. In addition, users can modify the dataset config and model config files to run on their own datasets or with new hyper-parameters. More details can be found in the readme file.

   cd model_zoo/DCN/DCN_torch
   python run_expid.py --expid DCN_test --gpu 0
   

3. Implement a new model

   The FuxiCTR code structure is modularized, so that every part can be overwritten by users according to their needs. In many cases, only the model class needs to be implemented for a new customized model. If data preprocessing or data loader is not directly applicable, one can also overwrite a new one through the core APIs. A complete example can be found at model_zoo/FinalMLP, which implements our new model FinalMLP that has been recently published in AAAI 2023. Some other examples are also available in the model zoo.

Citation

:bell: If you find our code or benchmarks helpful in your research, please kindly cite the following papers.

Jieming Zhu, Jinyang Liu, Shuai Yang, Qi Zhang, Xiuqiang He. Open Benchmarking for Click-Through Rate Prediction. The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2021. [Bibtex]

Jieming Zhu, Quanyu Dai, Liangcai Su, Rong Ma, Jinyang Liu, Guohao Cai, Xi Xiao, Rui Zhang. BARS: Towards Open Benchmarking for Recommender Systems. The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2022. [Bibtex]

Discussion

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