MTmixAtt: Integrating Mixture-of-Experts with Multi-Mix Attention for Large-Scale Recommendation
On the map: Mixture-of-experts → MoE for recommender systems
Abstract (arXiv)
Industrial recommender systems critically depend on high-quality ranking models. However, traditional pipelines still rely on manual feature engineering and scenario-specific architectures, which hinder cross-scenario transfer and large-scale deployment. To address these challenges, we propose MTmixAtt, a unified Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with Multi-Mix Attention, designed for large-scale recommendation tasks. MTmixAtt integrates two key components. The AutoToken module automatically clusters heterogeneous features into semantically coherent tokens, removing the need for human-defined feature groups. The MTmixAttBlock module enables efficient token interaction via a learnable mixing matrix, shared dense experts, and scenario-aware sparse experts, capturing both global patterns and scenario-specific behaviors within a single framework. Extensive experiments on the industrial TRec dataset from Meituan demonstrate that MTmixAtt consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines including Transformer-based models, WuKong, HiFormer, MLP-Mixer, and RankMixer. At comparable parameter scales, MTmixAtt achieves superior CTR and CTCVR metrics; scaling to MTmixAtt-1B yields further monotonic gains. Large-scale online A/B tests validate the real-world impact: in the textitHomepage scenario, MTmixAtt increases Payment PV by +3.62% and Actual Payment GTV by +2.54%. Overall, MTmixAtt provides a unified and scalable solution for modeling arbitrary heterogeneous features across scenarios, significantly improving both user experience and commercial outcomes.
Key facts. Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in MoE for recommender systems, one of 12 directions in Mixture-of-experts. Builds on 23 of its 34 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 17 Oct 2025.
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- 2026Compute Only Once: UG-Separation for Efficient Large Recommendation Modelscited by 1
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- 2026UniMixer: A Unified Architecture for Scaling Laws in Recommendation Systems1 Apr 2026
- 2026Compute Only Once: UG-Separation for Efficient Large Recommendation Models11 Feb 2026
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