STCRank: Spatio-temporal Collaborative Ranking for Interactive Recommender System at Kuaishou E-shop
Boyang Xia, Ruilin Bao, Hanjun Jiang, Jun Wang, Wenwu Ou

TL;DR
This paper introduces STCRank, a novel spatio-temporal collaborative ranking framework designed for interactive recommender systems in e-commerce, effectively managing multi-objective conflicts and sequential slot optimization, leading to increased user engagement and purchases.
Contribution
The paper proposes a new spatio-temporal collaborative ranking framework that addresses multi-objective conflicts and sequential recommendation challenges in immersive UI e-commerce settings.
Findings
Improved purchase rates and DAU co-growth.
Effective mitigation of ranking conflicts.
Successful deployment at Kuaishou E-shop since June 2025.
Abstract
As a popular e-commerce platform, Kuaishou E-shop provides precise personalized product recommendations to tens of millions of users every day. To better respond real-time user feedback, we have deployed an interactive recommender system (IRS) alongside our core homepage recommender system. This IRS is triggered by user click on homepage, and generates a series of highly relevant recommendations based on the clicked item to meet focused browsing demands. Different from traditional e-commerce RecSys, the full-screen UI and immersive swiping down functionality present two distinct challenges for regular ranking system. First, there exists explicit interference (overlap or conflicts) between ranking objectives, i.e., conversion, view and swipe down. This is because there are intrinsic behavioral co-occurrences under the premise of immersive browsing and swiping down functionality. Second,…
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Taxonomy
TopicsRecommender Systems and Techniques · Expert finding and Q&A systems · Advanced Graph Neural Networks
