用Transformer统一建模金融场景下的广告推荐与个性化,效果超越传统树模型。
FinTRec: Transformer Based Unified Contextual Ads Targeting and Personalization for Financial Applications
- 基于Transformer构建统一框架,融合多渠道长时序用户行为。
- 在真实业务测试中,推荐效果全面优于现有树模型基线。
- 支持多产品协同推荐,降低训练成本,适合金融行业落地应用。
基于Transformer的架构在序列推荐系统中广泛应用,但在金融服务(FS)领域面临独特的实际与建模挑战:一是跨越数字与物理渠道的长期用户交互(隐式与显式)产生时间异质性上下文;二是多种相互关联的产品需协调建模以支持多样广告投放和个性化信息流,同时平衡多重商业目标。本文提出FinTRec,一个面向金融场景的Transformer框架,解决上述挑战及运营目标。尽管传统上树模型因可解释性与监管适配性被优先采用,但本研究证明FinTRec能有效实现向Transformer架构的可行迁移。通过历史模拟与线上A/B测试验证,FinTRec持续优于生产级树模型基线。其统一架构在微调后支持跨产品信号共享,降低训练成本与技术债务,同时提升所有产品的离线性能。据我们所知,这是首个综合考虑技术和商业因素的金融领域统一序列推荐建模研究。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Transformer-based architectures are widely adopted in sequential recommendation systems, yet their application in Financial Services (FS) presents distinct practical and modeling challenges for real-time recommendation. These include:a) long-range user interactions (implicit and explicit) spanning both digital and physical channels generating temporally heterogeneous context, b) the presence of multiple interrelated products require coordinated models to support varied ad placements and personalized feeds, while balancing competing business goals. We propose FinTRec, a transformer-based framework that addresses these challenges and its operational objectives in FS. While tree-based models have traditionally been preferred in FS due to their explainability and alignment with regulatory requirements, our study demonstrate that FinTRec offers a viable and effective shift toward transformer-based architectures. Through historic simulation and live A/B test correlations, we show FinTRec consistently outperforms the production-grade tree-based baseline. The unified architecture, when fine-tuned for product adaptation, enables cross-product signal sharing, reduces training cost and technical debt, while improving offline performance across all products. To our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive study of unified sequential recommendation modeling in FS that addresses both technical and business considerations.
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