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FedMM: Federated Collaborative Signal Quantization for Multi-Market CTR Prediction

sigir26-130 · Full research paper · Jun Zhang, Dugang Liu, Xing Jia Tang, Xiuqiang He, Zhong Ming
Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs · 50% CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction · 25% Multi-Domain and Multi-Market Recomm · 12% Multi-Scenario and Multi-Domain CTR · 12%
Abstract

Online platforms such as Amazon and Netflix serve users across multiple countries and regions, underscoring the importance of multi-market recommendation (MMR). Most MMR methods adopt a pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm, in which a unified model is first trained on centralized, global data and subsequently adapted to specific markets. However, this approach ignores the privacy of market data. While traditional federated learning preserves privacy, it typically aims to obtain a global model by aggregating model parameters and does not account for significant market heterogeneity. Additionally, because ID spaces are disjoint across markets, embedding-based aggregation strategies become ineffective. To overcome these challenges, we propose a federated collaborative signal quantization (FedMM) method for multi-market click-through rate (CTR) prediction. Our core idea leverages a discrete codebook mechanism to achieve privacy-preserving transmission and align disjoint ID spaces. We further employ a hierarchical codebook structure to capture cross-market shared patterns and market-specific characteristics. Specifically, we deploy a residual quantized variational autoencoder (RQ-VAE) with a dual-layer codebook mechanism for each market to quantize collaborative embeddings. The first layer utilizes a global federated codebook, updated via aggregation to capture universally shared collaborative patterns, while the second layer maintains a local codebook to learn market-specific semantics. Finally, the learned discrete codes, which integrate both general and specific collaborative signals, are incorporated into downstream CTR models to enhance prediction accuracy across all markets. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that FedMM significantly improves recommendation performance with privacy guarantees.

Assigned reviewers

#ReviewerMatchWhy (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy)
1 Jinxin Hu
66
71 HeterRec: Heterogeneous Information Transformer for Scalable Sequential Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
62 MMQ: Multimodal Mixture-of-Quantization Tokenization for Semantic ID Generation and User Behavioral Adaptation (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
62 REG4Rec: Reasoning-Enhanced Generative Model for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
2 Yong He 0009
64
62 MI-DPG: Decomposable Parameter Generation Network Based on Mutual Information for Multi-Scenario Recommendation (2023) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction
61 GFlow-FT: Pick a Child Network via Gradient Flow for Efficient Fine-Tuning in Recommendation Systems (2022) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction
60 Breaking the Length Barrier: LLM-Enhanced CTR Prediction in Long Textual User Behaviors (2024) Efficiency and Deployment
3 Yu Zhang 0206
60
69 HeterRec: Heterogeneous Information Transformer for Scalable Sequential Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
58 MMQ: Multimodal Mixture-of-Quantization Tokenization for Semantic ID Generation and User Behavioral Adaptation (2026) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
56 Global-Distribution Aware Scenario-Specific Variational Representation Learning Framework (2025) Multi-Scenario and Multi-Domain CTR Prediction

Area chair

Area chairMatch
Xiaoyi Zeng 52
Area-chair candidates (5)
Xiaoyi Zeng assigned 5211 papers
Leyu Lin 5015 papers
Yanan Niu 5015 papers
Kun Gai 485 papers
Weiming Liu 0005 478 papers

Candidates from the panel ranked by match score

#ReviewerMatchLoadWhy
1 Junwei Pan COI: co-author 67 3
69 Incremental Learning for LLM-based Tokenization and Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
58 Ads Recommendation in a Collapsed and Entangled World (2024) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction
2 Ke Fei 66 3
54 Stable and Adaptive Fusion for Multi-domain Multi-task Recommendation (2026) Multi-Scenario and Multi-Domain CTR Prediction
52 Entire-Space Variational Information Exploitation for Post-Click Conversion Rate Prediction (2025) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction
3 Jinxin Hu assigned 66 3
71 HeterRec: Heterogeneous Information Transformer for Scalable Sequential Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
62 MMQ: Multimodal Mixture-of-Quantization Tokenization for Semantic ID Generation and User Behavioral Adaptation (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
4 Yong He 0009 assigned 64 3
62 MI-DPG: Decomposable Parameter Generation Network Based on Mutual Information for Multi-Scenario Recommendation (2023) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction
61 GFlow-FT: Pick a Child Network via Gradient Flow for Efficient Fine-Tuning in Recommendation Systems (2022) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction
5 Yu Zhang 0206 assigned 60 3
69 HeterRec: Heterogeneous Information Transformer for Scalable Sequential Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
58 MMQ: Multimodal Mixture-of-Quantization Tokenization for Semantic ID Generation and User Behavioral Adaptation (2026) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
6 Qiang Luo 0004 57 3
62 One Model to Serve All: Star Topology Adaptive Recommender for Multi-Domain CTR Prediction (2021) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction
61 DiffGRM: Diffusion-based Generative Recommendation Model (2026) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
7 Jiangxia Cao 57 3
52 ChorusCVR: Chorus Supervision for Entire Space Post-Click Conversion Rate Modeling (2026) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction
52 A Multi-modal Modeling Framework for Cold-start Short-video Recommendation (2024) Multimodal Generative Recommendation
8 Jie Jiang 0015 COI: co-author 56 3
69 Incremental Learning for LLM-based Tokenization and Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
59 Empowering Large Language Model for Sequential Recommendation via Multimodal Embeddings and Semantic IDs (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
9 Yupeng Hou 56 3
81 Learning Vector-Quantized Item Representation for Transferable Sequential Recommenders (2023) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
71 Towards Large Generative Recommendation: A Tokenization Perspective (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
10 Jieming Zhu COI: co-author 56 3
71 CoST: Contrastive Quantization based Semantic Tokenization for Generative Recommendation (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
71 UNGER: Generative Recommendation with A Unified Code via Semantic and Collaborative Integration (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
11 Yi Zhang 0103 54 3
56 AdaGIN: Adaptive Graph Interaction Network for Click-Through Rate Prediction (2025) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction
52 TF4CTR: Twin Focus Framework for CTR Prediction via Adaptive Sample Differentiation (2026) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction
12 Xuanhua Yang 54 3
60 Hierarchical User Long-term Behavior Modeling for Click-Through Rate Prediction (2025) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction
55 AdaSparse: Learning Adaptively Sparse Structures for Multi-Domain Click-Through Rate Prediction (2022) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
13 Lichan Hong 52 3
71 Better Generalization with Semantic IDs: A Case Study in Ranking for Recommendations (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
62 Recommender Systems with Generative Retrieval (2023) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
15 Lantao Hu 52 3
68 Generative Recommender with End-to-End Learnable Item Tokenization (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
67 Distinguished Quantized Guidance for Diffusion-based Sequence Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
16 Hao Liu 0078 52 3
55 WeaveRec: An LLM-Based Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation Framework with Model Merging (2026) Efficiency and Deployment
51 MCRPL: A Pretrain, Prompt, and Fine-tune Paradigm for Non-overlapping Many-to-one Cross-domain Recommendation (2024) Domain Adaptation and Disentangled Representation for CDR
17 Xin Zhang 0091 51 3
60 Deep Dynamic Interest Learning With Session Local and Global Consistency for Click-Through Rate Predictions (2022) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction
60 Deep Session Heterogeneity-Aware Network for Click Through Rate Prediction (2024) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction
18 Wei Guo 0006 COI: co-author 51 3
52 Enhancing Explicit and Implicit Feature Interactions via Information Sharing for Parallel Deep CTR Models (2021) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction
52 DLF: Enhancing Explicit-Implicit Interaction via Dynamic Low-Order-Aware Fusion for CTR Prediction (2025) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction
20 Hao Deng 0011 50 3
62 MMQ: Multimodal Mixture-of-Quantization Tokenization for Semantic ID Generation and User Behavioral Adaptation (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
61 REG4Rec: Reasoning-Enhanced Generative Model for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
22 Bowen Zheng 0005 50 3
71 Bridging Textual-Collaborative Gap through Semantic Codes for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
62 Generative Recommender with End-to-End Learnable Item Tokenization (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
23 Qijiong Liu 49 3
71 CoST: Contrastive Quantization based Semantic Tokenization for Generative Recommendation (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
71 Learning Multi-aspect Item Palette: A Semantic Tokenization Framework for Generative Recommendation (2026) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
24 Ed H. Chi 49 3
71 Better Generalization with Semantic IDs: A Case Study in Ranking for Recommendations (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
68 Recommender Systems with Generative Retrieval (2023) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
26 Shuchang Liu 0001 48 3
60 Distinguished Quantized Guidance for Diffusion-based Sequence Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
54 M3oE: Multi-Domain Multi-Task Mixture-of Experts Recommendation Framework (2024) Multi-Scenario and Multi-Domain CTR Prediction
27 Bo Chen 0023 COI: co-author 48 3
51 PLATE: A Prompt-Enhanced Paradigm for Multi-Scenario Recommendations (2023) Multi-Scenario and Multi-Domain CTR Prediction
51 Generative Representational Learning of Foundation Models for Recommendation (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
29 Yongxin Ni COI: co-author 47 3
60 Multi-Modality is All You Need for Transferable Recommender Systems (2024) Multimodal Generative Recommendation
57 NineRec: A Benchmark Dataset Suite for Evaluating Transferable Recommendation (2025) Multimodal Generative Recommendation
30 Bo Peng 0009 46 3
46 Multi-modality meets re-learning: mitigating negative transfer in sequential recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with Side and Multimodal Information
46 M2: Mixed Models With Preferences, Popularities and Transitions for Next-Basket Recommendation (2023) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
31 Han Li 0005 46 3
68 Generative Recommender with End-to-End Learnable Item Tokenization (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
47 DiffusionGS: Generative Search with Query Conditioned Diffusion in Kuaishou (2026) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
32 Ching Law 46 3
52 DPEO: Dynamic Preference Evolution Optimization for Self-Evolving CTR Prediction (2026) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction
49 Reasoning-Grounded Intent Injection for Generative Recommendation (2026) Preference Alignment and Optimization
33 Yongjing Hao 45 3
52 Exploiting Intra and Inter-field Feature Interaction with Self-Attentive Network for CTR Prediction (2021) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction
43 Feature-Level Deeper Self-Attention Network With Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
34 Ke Wang 0038 45 3
50 Enhancing Cross-Domain Recommendation with Plug-In Contrastive Representations from Large Language Models (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
50 Contrastive Multi-view Interest Learning for Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (2024) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
35 Huifeng Guo COI: co-author 45 3
54 PLATE: A Prompt-Enhanced Paradigm for Multi-Scenario Recommendations (2023) Multi-Scenario and Multi-Domain CTR Prediction
52 Scenario-Wise Rec: A Multi-Scenario Recommendation Benchmark (2025) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation