| Huiqin Xin | Machine Learning Engineer II, Ads Vertical Modeling; Lakshmi Manoharan | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Vertical Modeling; Karthik Jayasurya | Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Signals; Ziwei Guo | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Vertical Modeling; Alina Liviniuk | Machine Learning Engineer II, Ads Vertical Modeling Motivation: The Need for Real-Time Context In a previous post , Ads Candidate Generation using Behavioral Sequence Modeling , we introduced a candidate generator (CG) that uses a Transformer-based two-tower model to leverage a user’s offsite conversion |