3 papers
cs.IR2023
Breaking the Curse of Quality Saturation with User-Centric Ranking
Zhuokai Zhao, Yang Yang, Wenyu Wang +5
A key puzzle in search, ads, and recommendation is that the ranking model can only utilize a small portion of the vastly available user interaction data. As a result, increasing da…
cs.AI2023
Model-based Constrained MDP for Budget Allocation in Sequential Incentive Marketing
Shuai Xiao, Le Guo, Zaifan Jiang +4
Sequential incentive marketing is an important approach for online businesses to acquire customers, increase loyalty and boost sales. How to effectively allocate the incentives so…
cs.DS2022
A Practical Distributed ADMM Solver for Billion-Scale Generalized Assignment Problems
Jun Zhou, Feng Qi, Zhigang Hua +5
Assigning items to owners is a common problem found in various real-world applications, for example, audience-channel matching in marketing campaigns, borrower-lender matching in l…