Entire Space Delayed Feedback with Cross‑Task Knowledge Distillation (ESDC) for Multi‑Task E‑commerce Recommendation
This article presents Xiaomi’s e‑commerce recommendation research, addressing four key challenges—sample selection bias, data sparsity, delayed feedback, and knowledge inconsistency—by introducing the Entire Space Delayed Feedback with Cross‑Task Knowledge Distillation (ESDC) model, which combines causal inference, cross‑task distillation, twin networks, and uncertainty weighting to improve CVR prediction and achieve a 15% GMV lift over the baseline.