README.md

Neural Network with InnerProduct Deployment for CTR Prediction

background

CTR prediction is a very common task for ad evaluation and analysis. This program provides a simple neural network with inner product layer proposed by Y. Qu in the paper Product-based Neural Networks for User Response Prediction

Neural Netword Structure

Formulas in the Inner Product Layer

$l_1 \in \mathbb R^{D_1}$ is the output of the inner product layer, where $D_1$ is the dimension of the layer. The formulation of $l_1$ is $$l_1 = relu(l_z + l_p + b_1)$$ herein, with $l_z$ the linear signals, $l_p$ the quadratic signals and $b_1$ the bias.
The linear signals can be obtained by below. $$l_z^n = W_z^n\odot z = \displaystyle\sum_{i=1}^N \displaystyle\sum_{j=1}^M W_{z_{i, j}}^n z_{i,j}$$ Quadratic signals can be obtained by below. $$l_p^n = W_p^n\odot p = \displaystyle\sum_{i-1}^N\displaystyle\sum_{j=1}^M\theta_i^n \theta_j^n \langle f_i, f_j\rangle = \langle \displaystyle\sum_{i=1}^N\delta_i^n,\displaystyle\sum_{i=1}^N\delta_i^n \rangle$$

Evaluation

Evaluation is omitted as the paper approves that the AUC performs better than those without product layer.

input data

Train and target data are provided in the data folder. They are preprocessed data in percentage of display percentage and CTR for a certain category.

This program has a MIT license.