Search Results for author: Yizhi Mao

Found 2 papers, 0 papers with code

A Batched Multi-Armed Bandit Approach to News Headline Testing

no code implementations17 Aug 2019 Yizhi Mao, Miao Chen, Abhinav Wagle, Junwei Pan, Michael Natkovich, Don Matheson

At Yahoo Front Page, headline testing is carried out using a test-rollout strategy: we first allocate equal proportion of the traffic to each headline variation for a defined testing period, and then shift all future traffic to the best-performing variation.

Thompson Sampling

Predicting Different Types of Conversions with Multi-Task Learning in Online Advertising

no code implementations24 Jul 2019 Junwei Pan, Yizhi Mao, Alfonso Lobos Ruiz, Yu Sun, Aaron Flores

Conversion prediction plays an important role in online advertising since Cost-Per-Action (CPA) has become one of the primary campaign performance objectives in the industry.

Multi-Task Learning

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