arXiv research

FairUDT uses uplift decision trees to detect and mitigate discrimination in training data.

Proposes a generalized causal tree for handling multiple treatments in uplift modeling.

New neural network method improves uplift modeling accuracy.

Randomized experiments have been critical tools of decision making for decades. However, subjects can show significant heterogeneity in response to treatments in many important applications. Therefore it is not enough to simply know which treatment is optimal for the entire population. What we need is a model that corr…

Proposes a resampling method to compare uplift models with uncertainty.

The paper uses machine learning to find causal rules from business process logs.

Uplift models provide a solution to the problem of isolating the marketing effect of a campaign. For customer churn reduction, uplift models are used to identify the customers who are likely to respond positively to a retention activity only if targeted, and to avoid wasting resources on customers that are very likely …

Uplift models support decision-making in marketing campaign planning. Estimating the causal effect of a marketing treatment, an uplift model facilitates targeting communication to responsive customers and efficient allocation of marketing budgets. Research into uplift models focuses on conversion models to maximize inc…

Uplift modeling is an area of machine learning which aims at predicting the causal effect of some action on a given individual. The action may be a medical procedure, marketing campaign, or any other circumstance controlled by the experimenter. Building an uplift model requires two training sets: the treatment group, w…

Graph neural networks integrate causal knowledge for more accurate uplift modeling.

Our paper improves uplift model evaluation on randomized controlled trials (RCT) data.

Uplift modeling has effectively been used in fields such as marketing and customer retention, to target those customers that are most likely to respond due to the campaign or treatment. Uplift models produce uplift scores which are then used to essentially create a ranking. We instead investigate to learn to rank direc…

New neural model improves uplift modeling accuracy.

New feature selection methods improve uplift modeling accuracy.

This paper enhances uplift modeling for multi-treatment marketing campaigns.

A framework for causal classification using uplift and causal heterogeneity methods.

Heteroskedasticity biases uplift model rankings, leading to inefficient treatment allocation.

Uplift modeling is an emerging machine learning approach for estimating the treatment effect at an individual or subgroup level. It can be used for optimizing the performance of interventions such as marketing campaigns and product designs. Uplift modeling can be used to estimate which users are likely to benefit from …

UCB algorithms estimate uplifts in multi-variable reward systems.

Uplift modeling is aimed at estimating the incremental impact of an action on an individual's behavior, which is useful in various application domains such as targeted marketing (advertisement campaigns) and personalized medicine (medical treatments). Conventional methods of uplift modeling require every instance to be…

Customer scoring models are the core of scalable direct marketing. Uplift models provide an estimate of the incremental benefit from a treatment that is used for operational decision-making. Training and monitoring of uplift models require experimental data. However, the collection of data under randomized treatment as…

A new uplift modeling approach uses binary treatment indicators more efficiently.

A new method flips class values to address class and treatment imbalance in uplift modeling and HTE.

Uplift modeling aims to directly model the incremental impact of a treatment on an individual response. In this work, we address the problem from a new angle and reformulate it as a Markov Decision Process (MDP). We conducted extensive experiments on both a synthetic dataset and real-world scenarios, and showed that ou…

Unified survey of treatment effect heterogeneity and uplift modeling methods.

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

A hybrid algorithm fuses significance-based splitting with honest sample-splitting for estimating heterogeneous treatment effects.

Large dataset released for ITE and UM research.

Ethereum's Pectra upgrade introduces 0x02 compounding validators, offering higher stake and potential APR uplifts.

Dynamic promotion optimization for e-commerce platforms within financial constraints.

GCF estimates heterogeneous treatment effects for continuous treatments in online marketplaces.

This work explores the idea of a causal contextual multi-armed bandit approach to automated marketing, where we estimate and optimize the causal (incremental) effects. Focusing on causal effect leads to better return on investment (ROI) by targeting only the persuadable customers who wouldn't have taken the action orga…

A recent proposal of data dependent similarity called Isolation Kernel/Similarity has enabled SVM to produce better classification accuracy. We identify shortcomings of using a tree method to implement Isolation Similarity; and propose a nearest neighbour method instead. We formally prove the characteristic of Isolatio…

Today, treatment effect estimation at the individual level is a vital problem in many areas of science and business. For example, in marketing, estimates of the treatment effect are used to select the most efficient promo-mechanics; in medicine, individual treatment effects are used to determine the optimal dose of med…

Applying causal inference models in areas such as economics, healthcare and marketing receives great interest from the machine learning community. In particular, estimating the individual-treatment-effect (ITE) in settings such as precision medicine and targeted advertising has peaked in application. Optimising this IT…

We study stratified G-structures in ${\cal N}=2$ compactifications of M-theory on eight-manifolds $M$ using the uplift to the auxiliary nine-manifold ${\hat M}=M\times S^1$. We show that the cosmooth generalized distribution ${\hat {\cal D}}$ on ${\hat M}$ which arises in this formalism may have pointwise transverse or…

Proposes a new method to optimize treatment allocation with budget constraints.

The paper simplifies complex jump-diffusion markets to complete models.

We evaluate the applicability of the generic Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism as an antimonopoly measure against a profit-maximizing producer with market power operating a portfolio of generating units at the centralized two-settlement energy market. The producer may indicate in its bid not only the altered cost f…

A new ride-hailing subsidy system uses deep causal networks to estimate consumer elasticity.

Optimizes treatment allocation in networks considering indirect effects.

A new model predicts fashion demand 6-12 months ahead, boosting retailer profits.

Many continuous control tasks have easily formulated objectives, yet using them directly as a reward in reinforcement learning (RL) leads to suboptimal policies. Therefore, many classical control tasks guide RL training using complex rewards, which require tedious hand-tuning. We automate the reward search with AutoRL,…

Study shows sample noise impacts active learning performance.

Enhances GNNs to better capture local graph structures.

Optimizes non-linear outcomes from summed contributions.

With growing consumer adoption of online grocery shopping through platforms such as Amazon Fresh, Instacart, and Walmart Grocery, there is a pressing business need to provide relevant recommendations throughout the customer journey. In this paper, we introduce a production within-basket grocery recommendation system, R…

In recent years, the softmax model and its fast approximations have become the de-facto loss functions for deep neural networks when dealing with multi-class prediction. This loss has been extended to language modeling and recommendation, two fields that fall into the framework of learning from Positive and Unlabeled d…