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arXiv 2003.00097cs.IR
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共同学习推荐和认证

Jointly Learning to Recommend and Advertise

Xiangyu Zhao, Xudong Zheng, Xiwang Yang, Xiaobing Liu, Jiliang Tang

摘要:

在线推荐和广告是在线推荐平台(例如电子商务和新闻源网站)的两个主要收入渠道。然而,大多数平台通过不同的技术分别优化不同团队的推荐和广告策略,这可能导致整体表现不佳。为此,本文提出了一种新颖的两级强化学习框架来联合优化推荐和广告策略,第一级生成推荐列表,从长远来看优化用户体验;第二级在推荐列表中插入广告,可以平衡广告商的即时广告收入和广告对长期用户体验的负面影响。具体地说,第一级处理从大项目空间中选择子集项目的高组合动作空间问题;而第二级确定三个内部相关的任务,即,(i)是否插入广告,以及如果是,(ii)最佳广告和(iii)插入的最佳位置。基于真实数据的实验结果验证了该框架的有效性。我们已经发布了实现代码,以简化复制。

英文摘要:

Online recommendation and advertising are two major income channels for online recommendation platforms (e.g. e-commerce and news feed site). However, most platforms optimize recommending and advertising strategies by different teams separately via different techniques, which may lead to suboptimal overall performances. To this end, in this paper, we propose a novel two-level reinforcement learning framework to jointly optimize the recommending and advertising strategies, where the first level generates a list of recommendations to optimize user experience in the long run; then the second level inserts ads into the recommendation list that can balance the immediate advertising revenue from advertisers and the negative influence of ads on long-term user experience. To be specific, the first level tackles high combinatorial action space problem that selects a subset items from the large item space; while the second level determines three internally related tasks, i.e., (i) whether to insert an ad, and if yes, (ii) the optimal ad and (iii) the optimal location to insert. The experimental results based on real-world data demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework. We have released the implementation code to ease reproductivity.

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