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- research-articleFebruary 2025
Sequential Causal Effect Estimation by Jointly Modeling the Unmeasured Confounders and Instrumental Variables
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEECS_TKDE), Volume 37, Issue 2Pages 910–922https://doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2024.3510734Sequential causal effect estimation has recently attracted increasing attention from research and industry. While the existing models have achieved many successes, there are still many limitations. Existing models usually assume the causal graphs to be ...
- research-articleOctober 2024
OptDist: Learning Optimal Distribution for Customer Lifetime Value Prediction
CIKM '24: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge ManagementPages 2523–2533https://doi.org/10.1145/3627673.3679712Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV) prediction is a critical task in business applications, such as customer relationship management (CRM), online marketing, etc. Accurately predicting CLTV is challenging in real-world business scenarios, as the distribution ...
- research-articleOctober 2024
End-to-End Cost-Effective Incentive Recommendation under Budget Constraint with Uplift Modeling
RecSys '24: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender SystemsPages 560–569https://doi.org/10.1145/3640457.3688147In modern online platforms, incentives (e.g., discounts, bonus) are essential factors that enhance user engagement and increase platform revenue. Over recent years, uplift modeling has been introduced as a strategic approach to assign incentives to ...
- research-articleAugust 2024
Policy-Based Bayesian Active Causal Discovery with Deep Reinforcement Learning
KDD '24: Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data MiningPages 839–850https://doi.org/10.1145/3637528.3671705Causal discovery with observational and interventional data plays an important role in numerous fields. Due to the costly and potentially risky nature of intervention experiments, selecting informative interventions is critical in real-world situations. ...
- research-articleAugust 2024
Towards Robust Recommendation via Decision Boundary-aware Graph Contrastive Learning
KDD '24: Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data MiningPages 2854–2865https://doi.org/10.1145/3637528.3671661In recent years, graph contrastive learning (GCL) has received increasing attention in recommender systems due to its effectiveness in reducing bias caused by data sparsity. However, most existing GCL models rely on heuristic approaches and usually ...
- research-articleAugust 2024
Rankability-enhanced Revenue Uplift Modeling Framework for Online Marketing
KDD '24: Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data MiningPages 5093–5104https://doi.org/10.1145/3637528.3671516Uplift modeling has been widely employed in online marketing by predicting the response difference between the treatment and control groups, so as to identify the sensitive individuals toward interventions like coupons or discounts. Compared with ...
- ArticleSeptember 2024
Towards Effective and Efficient Multi-valued Treatment Uplift Modeling in Online Marketing
Database Systems for Advanced ApplicationsPages 121–138https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-5575-2_8AbstractThe effectiveness of an online marketing campaign heavily relies on the identification of user groups that exhibit high sensitivity to specific treatments. However, existing works in this domain has encountered certain limitations when applied in ...
- research-articleDecember 2023
Offline imitation learning with variational counterfactual reasoning
NIPS '23: Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Neural Information Processing SystemsArticle No.: 1896, Pages 43729–43741In offline imitation learning (IL), an agent aims to learn an optimal expert behavior policy without additional online environment interactions. However, in many real-world scenarios, such as robotics manipulation, the offline dataset is collected from ...