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48 results for digital advertising

Study optimal bidding strategies for digital ads targeting purchases and health campaigns.

problem Optimizing advertising strategies in digital channels.
method Continuous-time models encoding user behavior and auction mechanisms, semi-explicit formulas for optimal bidding.
result Semi-explicit formulas for optimal value and bidding policy for different types of advertising.

Real-time bidding (RTB) systems, which utilize auctions to allocate user impressions to competing advertisers, continue to enjoy success in digital advertising. Assessing the effectiveness of such advertising remains a challenge in research and practice. This paper proposes a new approach to perform causal inference on…

2019-08-22abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper tackles the issue of preferential attachment in targeted display advertising by developing domain-adaptation approaches.

problem Skewed distribution of data leads to preferential attachment towards high-budget partners.
method Develops domain-adaptation approaches to predict interested users for low-budget partners.
result Proposed approaches outperform other domain-adaptation methods across different points of campaigns.

In digital advertising, Click-Through Rate (CTR) and Conversion Rate (CVR) are very important metrics for evaluating ad performance. As a result, ad event prediction systems are vital and widely used for sponsored search and display advertising as well as Real-Time Bidding (RTB). In this work, we introduce an enhanced …

2019-07-03abs ↗pdf ↗

It takes skill to build a meaningful predictive model even with the abundance of implementations of modern machine learning algorithms and readily available computing resources. Building a model becomes challenging if hundreds of terabytes of data need to be processed to produce the training data set. In a digital adve…

2014-02-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Bridges uplift modeling and sequential decision-making with online budget allocation.

problem Treatment allocation under budget constraints in digital advertising.
method Budget-Constrained Causal Bandits (BCCB) integrates learning, exploration, and budget pacing.
result Data-efficiency crossover: BCCB operates effectively from the first user, 3-5x lower performance variance.

Tensors are becoming prevalent in modern applications such as medical imaging and digital marketing. In this paper, we propose a sparse tensor additive regression (STAR) that models a scalar response as a flexible nonparametric function of tensor covariates. The proposed model effectively exploits the sparse and low-ra…

2019-03-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Study estimates long-term effects of online advertising mechanisms on user behavior and revenue.

problem Estimating long-term treatment effects in online advertising systems.
method Modeling treatment effects as a stopped random walk, using experimental design, and statistical methods.
result Confidence intervals for long-term treatment effects constructed using statistical techniques.

Taobao, as the largest online retail platform in the world, provides billions of online display advertising impressions for millions of advertisers every day. For commercial purposes, the advertisers bid for specific spots and target crowds to compete for business traffic. The platform chooses the most suitable ads to …

2017-02-27abs ↗pdf ↗

New model uses symmetries and scaling laws to predict consumer advertising response.

problem Understanding consumer response to advertising efforts.
method Introduces a physics-based mathematical model to describe consumer response dynamics.
result The model better captures nonlinearities in advertising effects and provides new parameters for audience engagement.

This paper optimizes multi-channel sequential advertising to maximize cumulative revenue.

problem Maximizing cumulative revenue in multi-channel sequential advertising under a budget constraint.
method Formulated as a dynamic knapsack problem, proposed a bilevel optimization framework with action space reduction.
result Significantly improved cumulative revenue compared to state-of-the-art baselines.

The problem of detecting terms that can be interesting to the advertiser is considered. If a company has already bought some advertising terms which describe certain services, it is reasonable to find out the terms bought by competing companies. A part of them can be recommended as future advertising terms to the compa…

2009-06-26abs ↗pdf ↗

The traditional Sznajd model, as well as its Ochrombel simplification for opinion spreading, are applied to marketing with the help of advertising. The larger the lattice is the smaller is the amount of advertising needed to convince the whole market

2002-07-06abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper explores how to measure and optimize ad reach while maintaining user privacy.

problem Measuring ad reach while preserving user privacy in online advertising.
method Introduces kk-anonymity and probabilistic discounting for frequency capping.
result Privacy introduces a significant performance drop but with manageable costs.

Paper addresses CPA line forecasting in online advertising mid-flight.

problem Forecasting ad campaign performance mid-flight considering bidding mechanisms.
method Generates relationships between metrics and optimization signals, estimates sensitivity, and characterizes advertiser spends vs. eCPA.
result Demonstrates promising accuracy in forecasting against actual deliveries.

Online advertising in E-commerce platforms provides sellers an opportunity to achieve potential audiences with different target goals. Ad serving systems (like display and search advertising systems) that assign ads to pages should satisfy objectives such as plenty of audience for branding advertisers, clicks or conver…

2019-09-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimal bidding strategy for multi-platform ad auctions under budget constraints.

problem Optimizing ad placements for budget-constrained advertisers across multiple platforms.
method Developed an optimal bidding strategy for non-incentive-compatible auctions with budget constraints.
result Maximized total utility across auctions while satisfying budget constraints in expectation.

Improved conversion rate prediction in online advertising using self-supervised pre-training.

problem Data sparsity and calibration issues in predicting conversions given clicks.
method Self-supervised pre-training on all conversion events to enrich CVR prediction model without compromising calibration.
result Improvements in offline training and online A/B tests, with full deployment to Yahoo native advertising system.

New framework for online influencer selection considering cost constraints.

problem Real-world social advertising budget limitations and cost variability of influencers.
method Introduces a budgeted framework for online influence maximization using an algorithm with semi-bandit feedback.
result Improves the state of the art regret bound for cardinality constraint setting.

A new method for precise user targeting in advertising using hyperbolic manifold learning.

problem Improving user satisfaction in targeted advertising by overcoming skepticism and spam perception.
method Proposes a Multi-Manifold Learning framework to learn hierarchical user and ad representations in the hyperbolic space.
result Demonstrates improved performance in user targeting and prediction accuracy on both public datasets and a large-scale commercial system.

A simple Ising spin model which can describe the mechanism of advertising in a duopoly market is proposed. In contrast to other agent-based models, the influence does not flow inward from the surrounding neighbors to the center site, but spreads outward from the center to the neighbors. The model thus describes the spr…

2002-11-04abs ↗pdf ↗

BiCB combines traffic prediction and bidding optimization for live advertising.

problem Real-time bidding in live advertising with unknown future traffic.
method Binary Constrained Bidding (BiCB) that merges mathematical analysis and statistical traffic estimation.
result BiCB achieves good approximation to optimal bidding results with low complexity.

Some online advertising offers pay only when an ad elicits a response. Randomness and uncertainty about response rates make showing those ads a risky investment for online publishers. Like financial investors, publishers can use portfolio allocation over multiple advertising offers to pursue revenue while controlling r…

2015-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper optimizes ad bids and daily budgets for multiple campaigns in pay-per-click advertising.

problem Optimizing ad bids and daily budgets for multiple campaigns in pay-per-click advertising.
method Formulated as a combinatorial semi-bandit problem, solved using Gaussian Processes and four algorithms.
result Regret upper bounded as O(sqrt{T}), where T is the time horizon.

Introduces tensor bandits for multi-dimensional online decision making.

problem Optimal decision making in multi-dimensional online scenarios.
method Stochastic low-rank tensor bandits, tensor elimination, tensor epoch-greedy, tensor ensemble sampling.
result Tensor elimination and tensor epoch-greedy algorithms outperform existing methods.

Approach to optimize bidding policies offline using reinforcement learning.

problem Optimizing spending in online advertising under budget constraints.
method Offline reinforcement learning for optimizing differentiable base policies.
result Statistically significant performance gains in production bidding environments.

A PID-based feedback-control system improves multiple KPIs in RTB display advertising.

problem Challenges in simultaneously improving multiple KPIs in RTB campaigns.
method Sequential Control using PID-based feedback and importance metrics.
result Effective in simultaneously controlling multiple KPIs in both simulations and live traffic.

Predicting the click-through rate of an advertisement is a critical component of online advertising platforms. In sponsored search, the click-through rate estimates the probability that a displayed advertisement is clicked by a user after she submits a query to the search engine. Commercial search engines typically rel…

2017-07-07abs ↗pdf ↗