Efficient Cross-Architecture Knowledge Transfer for Large-Scale Online User Response Prediction

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• CrossAdapt is a two-stage framework for efficient cross-architecture knowledge transfer.method 95%
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  We propose CrossAdapt, a two-stage framework for efficient cross-architecture knowledge transfer.

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  The abstract explicitly states the proposal of 'CrossAdapt, a two-stage framework for efficient cross-architecture knowledge transfer.'

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• The offline stage of CrossAdapt enables rapid embedding transfer via dimension-adaptive projections without iterative training.method 95%
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  The offline stage enables rapid embedding transfer via dimension-adaptive projections without iterative training, combined with progressive network distillation and strategic sampling to reduce computational cost.

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  The abstract clearly describes the function of the offline stage, mentioning 'rapid embedding transfer via dimension-adaptive projections without iterative training'.

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• CrossAdapt achieves 0.27-0.43% AUC improvements on three public datasets.result 95%
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  Experiments on three public datasets show that CrossAdapt achieves 0.27-0.43% AUC improvements while reducing training time by 43-71%.

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  The abstract provides specific quantitative results for AUC improvements on public datasets.

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• CrossAdapt reduces training time by 43-71% on three public datasets.result 95%
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  Experiments on three public datasets show that CrossAdapt achieves 0.27-0.43% AUC improvements while reducing training time by 43-71%.

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  The abstract provides specific quantitative results for training time reduction on public datasets.

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• The online stage of CrossAdapt introduces asymmetric co-distillation.method 95%
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  The online stage introduces asymmetric co-distillation, where students update frequently while teachers update infrequently, together with a distribution-aware adaptation mechanism that dynamically balances historical knowledge preservation and fast adaptation to evolving data.

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  The abstract explicitly mentions the introduction of 'asymmetric co-distillation' in the online stage.

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• Large-scale deployment on Tencent WeChat Channels demonstrates CrossAdapt's effectiveness in mitigating AUC degradation.result 95%
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  Large-scale deployment on Tencent WeChat Channels (~10M daily samples) further demonstrates its effectiveness, significantly mitigating AUC degradation, LogLoss increase, and prediction bias compared to standard distillation baselines.

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  The abstract reports on large-scale deployment and its positive impact on AUC degradation.

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• Existing knowledge distillation methods struggle with architectural heterogeneity.limitation 90%
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  Existing knowledge distillation methods struggle with architectural heterogeneity and the prohibitive cost of transferring large embedding tables.

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  The abstract identifies a limitation of existing methods, which CrossAdapt aims to address.

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Competitive landscape

CrossAdapt offers an efficient method for deploying new architectures in online prediction systems by minimizing retraining costs and performance degradation.