Partial datasets for both competitions in the KDD Cup have been released; those interested can visit the official website for more information.KDD Cup 2026
First-time participants may feel unsure where to start, but they can refer to past KDD Cup competitions, and the organizers have also provided some recommended readings.
[1]InterFormer: Effective Heterogeneous Interaction Learning for Click-Through Rate Prediction. CIKM, 2025.
[2]OneTrans: Unified Feature Interaction and Sequence Modeling with One Transformer in Industrial Recommender. arXiv preprint, 2025.
[3]HyFormer: Revisiting the Roles of Sequence Modeling and Feature Interaction in CTR Prediction. arXiv preprint, 2026.
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