Coarse Ranking in Recommenders: Key Strategies, Metrics & Optimizations
This article systematically reviews the coarse‑ranking stage of recommendation systems, comparing it with recall and fine‑ranking, defining evaluation metrics, detailing sample design, presenting two technical routes, and exploring optimization directions such as dual‑tower models, knowledge distillation, lightweight fully‑connected layers, multi‑objective and multi‑scenario modeling, followed by practical case studies and results.
