Advertising Science

We combine our immense trove of data with tools from large-scale machine learning, statistical modeling, feedback control, and more to develop the high-performing and robust algorithms that drive impression allocation and ad serving. including machine learning, statistics, operations research, economics, mathematics, control theory, etc. Some representative areas of work are: click and conversion prediction, viewability and video completion prediction, incremental reach optimization, campaign budget spend pacing, bidding strategies, supply path optimization, app marketing optimization, and optimization and performance measurement on internet traffic with privacy-driven restricted user traceability.

Publications

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April 13, 2024
The Web Conference (WWW 2024)

Mystique: A Budget Pacing System for Performance Optimization in Online Advertising

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October 29, 2023
IEEE International Conference on Big Data

Audience Prospecting for Dynamic-Product-Ads in Native Advertising

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October 28, 2023
IEEE International Conference on Big Data

Improving Conversion Rate Prediction via Self-Supervised Pre-Training in Online Advertising

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July 5, 2023
Ad KDD 2023

Staging E-Commerce Products for Online Advertising Using Retrieval Assisted Image Generation

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June 15, 2023
ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'23)

The Impact of Privacy Measures on Online Advertising Market

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May 16, 2023
KDD 2023 (Applied Data Science track)

Extreme Multi-Label Classification for Ad Targeting Using Factorization Machines

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November 8, 2022
EEEBigData’2022, Industry and government Program

Conversion-Based Dynamic-Creative - Optimization in Native Advertising

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August 24, 2022
CIKM 2022

Improving Text-Based Similar Product Recommendation for Dynamic Product Advertising at Yahoo

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December 13, 2021
CDC 2021

Scalable Multi-Objective Optimization in Programmatic Advertising via Feedback Control

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August 10, 2021
CIKM 2021

TSI: An Ad Text Strength Indicator Using Text-to-CTR and Semantic-Ad-Similarity

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August 10, 2021
CIKM 2021 (applied research track)

Unbiased Filtering of Accidental Clicks in Verizon Media Native Advertising

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May 17, 2021
KDD 2021

MEOW: A Space-Efficient Non-Parametric Bid Shading Algorithm

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May 17, 2021
KDD 2021

Efficient Deep Distribution Network for Bid Shading in First-Price Auctions

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January 24, 2021
ACC 2021

Adaptive Bid Shading Optimization of First-Price Ad Inventory

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January 24, 2021
ACC 2021

Adaptive Seasonality Estimation for Campaign Optimization in Online Advertising

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January 15, 2021
WWW 2021

Incrementality Testing in Programmatic Advertising: Enhanced Precision with Double-Blind Designs

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October 20, 2020
IEEE BigData 2020, Industry and Government program

Dynamic Creative Optimization in Verizon Media Native Advertising

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October 16, 2020
WSDM 2021

DeepLight: Deep Lightweight Feature Interactions for Accelerating CTR Predictions in Ad Serving

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July 24, 2020
CIKM 2020

Prospective Modeling of Users for Online Display Advertising via Deep Time-Aware Model

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July 24, 2020
CIKM 2020

Learning to Create Better Ads: Generation and Ranking Approaches for Ad Creative Refinement

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July 24, 2020
CIKM 2020

Bid Shading in the Brave New World of First-Price Auctions

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July 16, 2020
CIKM 2020

Leveraging User Email Actions to Improve Ad-Close Prediction

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July 3, 2020
AdKDD 2020

Bid Shading by Auction Clearing Price Prediction and Fast Surplus Maximization Search

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July 3, 2020
AdKDD 2020

Advertising Incrementality Measurement Using Controlled Geo-Experiments: The Universal App Campaign Case Study

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January 10, 2020
The Web Conference 2020 (WWW)

Recommending Themes for Ad Creative Design via Visual-Linguistic Representations

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October 10, 2019
WSDM 2020

Ad Close Mitigation for Improved User Experience in Native Advertisements

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January 1, 2019
American Control Conference 2019

Identification of Seasonality in Internet Traffic to Support Control of Online Advertising

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January 1, 2019
CDC - 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Adaptive Optimization and Control in Online Advertising

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January 1, 2019
CIKM

Feature Enhancement via User Similarities Networks for Improved Click Prediction in Yahoo Gemini Native

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January 1, 2019
CIKM

Soft Frequency Capping for Improved Ad Click Prediction in Yahoo Gemini Native

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January 1, 2019
Companion Proceedings of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference

Inferring Advertiser Sentiment in Online Articles Using Wikipedia Footnotes

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January 1, 2019
AdKDD

Learning from Multi-User Activity Trails for B2B Ad Targeting