14 research outputs found
Smart Pacing for Effective Online Ad Campaign Optimization
In targeted online advertising, advertisers look for maximizing campaign
performance under delivery constraint within budget schedule. Most of the
advertisers typically prefer to impose the delivery constraint to spend budget
smoothly over the time in order to reach a wider range of audiences and have a
sustainable impact. Since lots of impressions are traded through public
auctions for online advertising today, the liquidity makes price elasticity and
bid landscape between demand and supply change quite dynamically. Therefore, it
is challenging to perform smooth pacing control and maximize campaign
performance simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a smart pacing approach
in which the delivery pace of each campaign is learned from both offline and
online data to achieve smooth delivery and optimal performance goals. The
implementation of the proposed approach in a real DSP system is also presented.
Experimental evaluations on both real online ad campaigns and offline
simulations show that our approach can effectively improve campaign performance
and achieve delivery goals.Comment: KDD'15, August 10-13, 2015, Sydney, NSW, Australi
Bringing Salary Transparency to the World: Computing Robust Compensation Insights via LinkedIn Salary
The recently launched LinkedIn Salary product has been designed with the goal
of providing compensation insights to the world's professionals and thereby
helping them optimize their earning potential. We describe the overall design
and architecture of the statistical modeling system underlying this product. We
focus on the unique data mining challenges while designing and implementing the
system, and describe the modeling components such as Bayesian hierarchical
smoothing that help to compute and present robust compensation insights to
users. We report on extensive evaluation with nearly one year of de-identified
compensation data collected from over one million LinkedIn users, thereby
demonstrating the efficacy of the statistical models. We also highlight the
lessons learned through the deployment of our system at LinkedIn.Comment: Conference information: ACM International Conference on Information
and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017
How LinkedIn Economic Graph Bonds Information and Product: Applications in LinkedIn Salary
The LinkedIn Salary product was launched in late 2016 with the goal of
providing insights on compensation distribution to job seekers, so that they
can make more informed decisions when discovering and assessing career
opportunities. The compensation insights are provided based on data collected
from LinkedIn members and aggregated in a privacy-preserving manner. Given the
simultaneous desire for computing robust, reliable insights and for having
insights to satisfy as many job seekers as possible, a key challenge is to
reliably infer the insights at the company level when there is limited or no
data at all. We propose a two-step framework that utilizes a novel, semantic
representation of companies (Company2vec) and a Bayesian statistical model to
address this problem. Our approach makes use of the rich information present in
the LinkedIn Economic Graph, and in particular, uses the intuition that two
companies are likely to be similar if employees are very likely to transition
from one company to the other and vice versa. We compute embeddings for
companies by analyzing the LinkedIn members' company transition data using
machine learning algorithms, then compute pairwise similarities between
companies based on these embeddings, and finally incorporate company
similarities in the form of peer company groups as part of the proposed
Bayesian statistical model to predict insights at the company level. We perform
extensive validation using several different evaluation techniques, and show
that we can significantly increase the coverage of insights while, in fact,
even improving the quality of the obtained insights. For example, we were able
to compute salary insights for 35 times as many title-region-company
combinations in the U.S. as compared to previous work, corresponding to 4.9
times as many monthly active users. Finally, we highlight the lessons learned
from deployment of our system.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
Scalable Bayesian modeling, monitoring and analysis of dynamic network flow data
Traffic flow count data in networks arise in many applications, such as
automobile or aviation transportation, certain directed social network
contexts, and Internet studies. Using an example of Internet browser traffic
flow through site-segments of an international news website, we present
Bayesian analyses of two linked classes of models which, in tandem, allow fast,
scalable and interpretable Bayesian inference. We first develop flexible
state-space models for streaming count data, able to adaptively characterize
and quantify network dynamics efficiently in real-time. We then use these
models as emulators of more structured, time-varying gravity models that allow
formal dissection of network dynamics. This yields interpretable inferences on
traffic flow characteristics, and on dynamics in interactions among network
nodes. Bayesian monitoring theory defines a strategy for sequential model
assessment and adaptation in cases when network flow data deviates from
model-based predictions. Exploratory and sequential monitoring analyses of
evolving traffic on a network of web site-segments in e-commerce demonstrate
the utility of this coupled Bayesian emulation approach to analysis of
streaming network count data.Comment: 29 pages, 16 figure
Conversion rate prediction based on text readability analysis of landing pages
Digital marketing has been extensively researched and developed remarkably rapidly over the last decade. Within this field, hundreds of scientific publications and patents have been produced, but the accuracy of prediction technologies leaves much to be desired. Conversion prediction remains a problem for most marketing professionals. In this article, the authors, using a dataset containing landing pages content and their conversions, show that a detailed analysis of text readability is capable of predicting conversion rates. They identify specific features that directly affect conversion and show how marketing professionals can use the results of this work. In their experiments, the authors show that the applied machine learning approach can predict landing page conversion. They built five machine learning models. The accuracy of the built machine learning model using the SVM algorithm is promising for its implementation. Additionally, the interpretation
of the results of this model was conducted using the SHAP package. Approximately 60% of purchases are made by nonmembers, and this paper may be suitable for the cold-start problem
Predicting response in mobile advertising with Hierarchical Importance-Aware Factorization Machine
Mobile advertising has recently seen dramatic growth, fu-eled by the global proliferation of mobile phones and devices. The task of predicting ad response is thus crucial for maxi-mizing business revenue. However, ad response data change dynamically over time, and are subject to cold-start situ-ations in which limited history hinders reliable prediction