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Enhancing Ad Relevance: Integrating Real-Time Context into Sequential Recommender Models

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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
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