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RoleMix addresses a core challenge in industrial recommendation systems by unifying the processing of sparse features and long behavior sequences through semantic tokenization. This approach preserves critical field semantics at the token interface level, offering significant performance gains over existing baselines on large-scale conversion rate prediction tasks. The work highlights that architectural efficiency in feature representation is as vital to model scaling as backbone complexity for practical AI deployment.
RoleMix: Unifying Sequential and Non-Sequential Features via Semantic Tokenization for Post-Click Conversion Rate Prediction
arXiv:2607.22700v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-click conversion rate (PCVR) prediction is central to industrial recommendation, but remains challenged by the structural mismatch between sparse, unordered multi-field features and long, domain-specific behavior histories. Existing models often process these signals through separate pathways and fuse them late, weakening semantic roles and limiting cross-signal refinement. We propose RoleMix, a unified interaction architecture that represents sequential and non-sequential evidence through a shared, role-preserving token interface. Non-sequential fields are converted into explicit semantic tokens that preserve user, item, pairwise, dense, contextual, and cross-feature roles, while long behavior domains are compressed into item- and context-aware sequence-query tokens through two-stage hierarchical window attention. The resulting global, semantic, and sequence-query tokens are jointly refined by stacked UniMixing-Lite blocks for PCVR prediction. On the large-scale KDD Cup 2026 Tencent UniRec Challenge, RoleMix achieves 83.648% online AUC, outperforming the official industrial baseline by 1.953%. Ablation studies show that semantic tokenization yields the largest isolated gain, highlighting a key principle for large-scale PCVR modeling: preserving field semantics at the token-interface level is as important as scaling the interaction backbone.
Abstract:Post-click conversion rate (PCVR) prediction is central to industrial recommendation, but remains challenged by the structural mismatch between sparse, unordered multi-field features and long, domain-specific behavior histories. Existing models often process these signals through separate pathways and fuse them late, weakening semantic roles and limiting cross-signal refinement. We propose RoleMix, a unified interaction architecture that represents sequential and non-sequential evidence through a shared, role-preserving token interface. Non-sequential fields are converted into explicit semantic tokens that preserve user, item, pairwise, dense, contextual, and cross-feature roles, while long behavior domains are compressed into item- and context-aware sequence-query tokens through two-stage hierarchical window attention. The resulting global, semantic, and sequence-query tokens are jointly refined by stacked UniMixing-Lite blocks for PCVR prediction. On the large-scale KDD Cup 2026 Tencent UniRec Challenge, RoleMix achieves 83.648% online AUC, outperforming the official industrial baseline by 1.953%. Ablation studies show that semantic tokenization yields the largest isolated gain, highlighting a key principle for large-scale PCVR modeling: preserving field semantics at the token-interface level is as important as scaling the interaction backbone.
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