  Combinatorial features are essential for the success of many commercial
models. Manually crafting these features usually comes with high cost due to
the variety, volume and velocity of raw data in web-scale systems.
Factorization based models, which measure interactions in terms of vector
product, can learn patterns of combinatorial features automatically and
generalize to unseen features as well. With the great success of deep neural
networks (DNNs) in various fields, recently researchers have proposed several
DNN-based factorization model to learn both low- and high-order feature
interactions. Despite the powerful ability of learning an arbitrary function
from data, plain DNNs generate feature interactions implicitly and at the
bit-wise level. In this paper, we propose a novel Compressed Interaction
Network (CIN), which aims to generate feature interactions in an explicit
fashion and at the vector-wise level. We show that the CIN share some
functionalities with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural
networks (RNNs). We further combine a CIN and a classical DNN into one unified
model, and named this new model eXtreme Deep Factorization Machine (xDeepFM).
On one hand, the xDeepFM is able to learn certain bounded-degree feature
interactions explicitly; on the other hand, it can learn arbitrary low- and
high-order feature interactions implicitly. We conduct comprehensive
experiments on three real-world datasets. Our results demonstrate that xDeepFM
outperforms state-of-the-art models. We have released the source code of
xDeepFM at \url{https://github.com/Leavingseason/xDeepFM}.
