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most citedWarm Up Cold-start Advertisements: Improving CTR Predictions via Learning to Learn ID Embeddings

29 citations · 137 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

q-fin.ST2023★ 25 cited

Generating Synergistic Formulaic Alpha Collections via Reinforcement Learning

Shuo Yu, Hongyan Xue, Xiang Ao +4

In the field of quantitative trading, it is common practice to transform raw historical stock data into indicative signals for the market trend. Such signals are called alpha facto…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Style Miner: Find Significant and Stable Explanatory Factors in Time Series with Constrained Reinforcement Learning

Dapeng Li, Feiyang Pan, Jia He +3

In high-dimensional time-series analysis, it is essential to have a set of key factors (namely, the style factors) that explain the change of the observed variable. For example, vo…

q-fin.TR2022★ 3 cited

Learn Continuously, Act Discretely: Hybrid Action-Space Reinforcement Learning For Optimal Execution

Feiyang Pan, Tongzhe Zhang, Ling Luo +2

Optimal execution is a sequential decision-making problem for cost-saving in algorithmic trading. Studies have found that reinforcement learning (RL) can help decide the order-spli…

cs.LG2021★ 12 cited

Follow the Prophet: Accurate Online Conversion Rate Prediction in the Face of Delayed Feedback

Haoming Li, Feiyang Pan, Xiang Ao +6

The delayed feedback problem is one of the imperative challenges in online advertising, which is caused by the highly diversified feedback delay of a conversion varying from a few…

cs.LG2021

GuideBoot: Guided Bootstrap for Deep Contextual Bandits

Feiyang Pan, Haoming Li, Xiang Ao +4

The exploration/exploitation (E&E) dilemma lies at the core of interactive systems such as online advertising, for which contextual bandit algorithms have been proposed. Bayesian a…

cs.LG2020★ 19 cited

Trust the Model When It Is Confident: Masked Model-based Actor-Critic

Feiyang Pan, Jia He, Dandan Tu +1

It is a popular belief that model-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) is more sample efficient than model-free RL, but in practice, it is not always true due to overweighed model err…

cs.CL2020

GoChat: Goal-oriented Chatbots with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

Jianfeng Liu, Feiyang Pan, Ling Luo

A chatbot that converses like a human should be goal-oriented (i.e., be purposeful in conversation), which is beyond language generation. However, existing dialogue systems often h…

cs.LG2019★ 23 cited

Field-aware Calibration: A Simple and Empirically Strong Method for Reliable Probabilistic Predictions

Feiyang Pan, Xiang Ao, Pingzhong Tang +4

It is often observed that the probabilistic predictions given by a machine learning model can disagree with averaged actual outcomes on specific subsets of data, which is also know…

cs.LG2019★ 29 cited

Warm Up Cold-start Advertisements: Improving CTR Predictions via Learning to Learn ID Embeddings

Feiyang Pan, Shuokai Li, Xiang Ao +2

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction has been one of the most central problems in computational advertising. Lately, embedding techniques that produce low-dimensional representation…

cs.LG2018★ 2 cited

Policy Optimization with Model-based Explorations

Feiyang Pan, Qingpeng Cai, An-Xiang Zeng +5

Model-free reinforcement learning methods such as the Proximal Policy Optimization algorithm (PPO) have successfully applied in complex decision-making problems such as Atari games…

cs.LG2018★ 21 cited

Policy Gradients for Contextual Recommendations

Feiyang Pan, Qingpeng Cai, Pingzhong Tang +2

Decision making is a challenging task in online recommender systems. The decision maker often needs to choose a contextual item at each step from a set of candidates. Contextual ba…