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Hongji Ruan

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0004-2979-9685ORCID · reported

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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper
Recommender systems · 50% Information retrieval · 50%

Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Recommender systems
click-through rate prediction
1.012026
RQ-GMM: Residual Quantized Gaussian Mixture Model for Multimodal Semantic Discretization in CTR Prediction · SIGIR 2026
Information retrieval › similarity search › vector quantization
embedding quantization
1.012026
RQ-GMM: Residual Quantized Gaussian Mixture Model for Multimodal Semantic Discretization in CTR Prediction · SIGIR 2026

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

residual quantization · 1.0gaussian mixture model · 1.0attention mechanism · 1.0
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 RQ-GMM: Residual Quantized Gaussian Mixture Model for Multimodal Semantic Discretization in CTR Prediction
abstract
Multimodal content is crucial for click-through rate (CTR) prediction. However, directly incorporating continuous embeddings from pre-trained models into CTR models yields suboptimal results due to misaligned optimization objectives and convergence speed inconsistency during joint training. Discretizing embeddings into semantic IDs before feeding them into CTR models offers a more effective solution, yet existing methods suffer from limited codebook utilization, reconstruction accuracy, and semantic discriminability. We propose RQ-GMM (Residual Quantized Gaussian Mixture Model), which introduces probabilistic modeling to better capture the statistical structure of multimodal embedding spaces. Through Gaussian Mixture Models combined with residual quantization, RQ-GMM achieves superior codebook utilization and reconstruction accuracy. Experiments on public datasets and online A/B tests on a large-scale short-video platform serving hundreds of millions of users demonstrate substantial improvements: RQ-GMM yields a 1.502% gain in Advertiser Value over strong baselines. The method has been fully deployed, serving daily recommendations for hundreds of millions of users.
Ziye Tong, Jiahao Liu 0009, Hongji Ruan, Derick Tang, Zhanpeng Zeng, Qinsong Zeng, Peng Zhang 0060, Tun Lu, Ning Gu 0001
SIGIR4