{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/wukong-towards-a-scaling-law-for-large-scale","title":"Wukong: Towards a Scaling Law for Large-Scale Recommendation","arxiv_id":"2403.02545","date":"2024-03-04","proceeding":null,"authors":["Buyun Zhang","Liang Luo","Yuxin Chen","Jade Nie","Xi Liu","Daifeng Guo","Yanli Zhao","Shen Li","Yuchen Hao","Yantao Yao","Guna Lakshminarayanan","Ellie Dingqiao Wen","Jongsoo Park","Maxim Naumov","Wenlin Chen"],"abstract":"Scaling laws play an instrumental role in the sustainable improvement in model quality. Unfortunately, recommendation models to date do not exhibit such laws similar to those observed in the domain of large language models, due to the inefficiencies of their upscaling mechanisms. This limitation poses significant challenges in adapting these models to increasingly more complex real-world datasets. In this paper, we propose an effective network architecture based purely on stacked factorization machines, and a synergistic upscaling strategy, collectively dubbed Wukong, to establish a scaling law in the domain of recommendation. Wukong's unique design makes it possible to capture diverse, any-order of interactions simply through taller and wider layers. We conducted extensive evaluations on six public datasets, and our results demonstrate that Wukong consistently outperforms state-of-the-art models quality-wise. Further, we assessed Wukong's scalability on an internal, large-scale dataset. The results show that Wukong retains its superiority in quality over state-of-the-art models, while holding the scaling law across two orders of magnitude in model complexity, extending beyond 100 GFLOP/example, where prior arts fall short.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02545v4","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.02545v4.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"wukong-towards-a-scaling-law-for-large-scale","repo_url":"https://github.com/clabrugere/wukong-recommendation","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":{"status":"ok","spdx":"MIT"}},{"paper_slug":"wukong-towards-a-scaling-law-for-large-scale","repo_url":"https://github.com/reczoo/FuxiCTR/tree/main/model_zoo/WuKong","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"language-modelling","task_name":"Language Modelling"},{"task_slug":"large-language-model","task_name":"Large Language Model"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/2403.02545","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2403.02545","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}