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PJ Xiao
dblp:353/7728
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2023
0009-0006-8965-5194ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Information retrieval · 50% Recommender systems · 50% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Transfer learning and domain adaptation · 77% Trustworthy machine learning · 23% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Transfer learning and domain adaptation › domain adaptation
unsupervised domain adaptation |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | An Empirical Study of Selection Bias in Pinterest Ads Retrieval · KDD 2023 |
Information retrieval › online advertising › sponsored search
ad retrieval |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | An Empirical Study of Selection Bias in Pinterest Ads Retrieval · KDD 2023 |
Recommender systems › large-scale recommendation
multi-stage recommender systems |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | An Empirical Study of Selection Bias in Pinterest Ads Retrieval · KDD 2023 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › robustness
distribution shift |
0.2 | 1 | 2023 | An Empirical Study of Selection Bias in Pinterest Ads Retrieval · KDD 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
unsupervised domain adaptation · 1.3transfer learning · 1.3adversarial learning · 1.3
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | An Empirical Study of Selection Bias in Pinterest Ads RetrievalabstractData selection bias has been a long-lasting challenge in the machine learning domain, especially in multi-stage recommendation systems, where the distribution of labeled items for model training is very different from that of the actual candidates during inference time. This distribution shift is even more prominent in the context of online advertising where the user base is diverse and the platform contains a wide range of contents. In this paper, we first investigate the data selection bias in the upper funnel (Ads Retrieval) of Pinterest's multi-cascade ads ranking system. We then conduct comprehensive experiments to assess the performance of various state-of-the-art methods, including transfer learning, adversarial learning, and unsupervised domain adaptation. Moreover, we further introduce some modifications into the unsupervised domain adaptation and evaluate the performance of different variants of this modified method. Our online A/B experiments show that the modified version of unsupervised domain adaptation (MUDA) could provide the largest improvements to the performance of Pinterest's advertisement ranking system compared with other methods and the one used in current production. Yuan Wang 0076, Peifeng Yin, Zhiqiang Tao, Hari Venkatesan, Jin Lai, Yi Fang 0008, PJ Xiao |
KDD | 7 |