Direct heterogeneous causal learning for resource allocation problems in marketing

H Zhou, S Li, G Jiang, J Zheng, D Wang - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Marketing is an important mechanism to increase user engagement and improve platform
revenue, and heterogeneous causal learning can help develop more effective strategies …

Safe offline reinforcement learning with real-time budget constraints

Q Lin, B Tang, Z Wu, C Yu, S Mao… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Aiming at promoting the safe real-world deployment of Reinforcement Learning (RL),
research on safe RL has made significant progress in recent years. However, most existing …

An end-to-end framework for marketing effectiveness optimization under budget constraint

Z Yan, S Wang, G Zhou, J Lin, P Jiang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2302.04477, 2023 - arxiv.org
Online platforms often incentivize consumers to improve user engagement and platform
revenue. Since different consumers might respond differently to incentives, individual-level …

Decision focused causal learning for direct counterfactual marketing optimization

H Zhou, R Huang, S Li, G Jiang, J Zheng… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Marketing optimization plays an important role to enhance user engagement in online
Internet platforms. Existing studies usually formulate this problem as a budget allocation …

End-to-end cost-effective incentive recommendation under budget constraint with uplift modeling

Z Sun, H Yang, D Liu, Y Weng, X Tang… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In modern online platforms, incentives (eg, discounts, bonus) are essential factors that
enhance user engagement and increase platform revenue. Over recent years, uplift …

Rl-mpca: A reinforcement learning based multi-phase computation allocation approach for recommender systems

J Zhou, S Mao, G Yang, B Tang, Q **e, L Lin… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems aim to recommend the most suitable items to users from a large
number of candidates. Their computation cost grows as the number of user requests and the …

Hierarchical Multi-agent Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Cross-channel Bidding

S He, C Yu, Q Lin, S Mao, B Tang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Real-time bidding (RTB) plays a pivotal role in online advertising ecosystems. Advertisers
employ strategic bidding to optimize their advertising impact while adhering to various …

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning based Edge Content Caching for Connected Autonomous Vehicles in IoV

X Xu, L Gu, M Bilal, M Khan, Y Wen, G Liu… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Connected Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) Driving, as a data-driven intelligent driving
technology within the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), presents significant challenges to the …

Real-time bidding with multi-agent reinforcement learning in multi-channel display advertising

C Chen, G Wang, B Liu, S Song, K Mao, S Yu… - Neural Computing and …, 2024 - Springer
Real-time bidding is the main way to display advertisements in the current e-commerce
market. To maximize the revenue and investment reporting (ROI) brought by advertising, the …

Deep Isotonic Embedding Network: A flexible Monotonic Neural Network

J Zhao, H Zhang, Y Wang, Y Zhai, Y Yang - Neural Networks, 2024 - Elsevier
Guaranteeing the monotonicity of a learned model is crucial to address concerns such as
fairness, interpretability, and generalization. This paper develops a new monotonic neural …