2 papers
cs.IR2024
TRACE: Transformer-based user Representations from Attributed Clickstream Event sequences
William Black, Alexander Manlove, Jack Pennington +3
For users navigating travel e-commerce websites, the process of researching products and making a purchase often results in intricate browsing patterns that span numerous sessions…
cs.IR2023
AdaptEx: A Self-Service Contextual Bandit Platform
William Black, Ercument Ilhan, Andrea Marchini +1
This paper presents AdaptEx, a self-service contextual bandit platform widely used at Expedia Group, that leverages multi-armed bandit algorithms to personalize user experiences at…