HuffmanEmbed: Using Huffman Coding for Embedding Table Compression in Deep Learning Recommendation Models.

@inproceedings{jiang-2026-huffmanembed, author = {Chaoyi Jiang and Tetsuya Sakai and Ahmet Aker and Keshav Balasubramanian and Abdulla Alshabanah and Stephen E. Robertson and Murali Annavaram and Victor Lavrenko and Hossein Entezari Zarch and Ahmet Aker and Keshav Balasubramanian and Murali Annavaram and Victor Lavrenko}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{HuffmanEmbed: Using Huffman Coding for Embedding Table Compression in Deep Learning Recommendation Models}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {3848--3853}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809938}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809938} }