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Kelly Paulson
dblp:388/2304
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0003-9736-6614ORCID · 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.
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design · 67% Mathematical optimization · 33% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning · 50% Reinforcement learning · 50% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Information retrieval · 100% |
Topics — the 6 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › hierarchical modeling
hierarchical bayesian model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Multi-Task Combinatorial Bandits for Budget Allocation · KDD (1) 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
thompson sampling |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Multi-Task Combinatorial Bandits for Budget Allocation · KDD (1) 2025 |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design › resource allocation
budget allocation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Multi-Task Combinatorial Bandits for Budget Allocation · KDD (1) 2025 |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design › multi-armed bandit
combinatorial multi-armed bandit |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Multi-Task Combinatorial Bandits for Budget Allocation · KDD (1) 2025 |
Mathematical optimization
combinatorial optimization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Multi-Task Combinatorial Bandits for Budget Allocation · KDD (1) 2025 |
Information retrieval
online advertising |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Multi-Task Combinatorial Bandits for Budget Allocation · KDD (1) 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
thompson sampling · 2.6neural network · 2.6linear regression · 2.6gaussian process · 2.6bayesian hierarchical model · 2.6
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Multi-Task Combinatorial Bandits for Budget AllocationabstractToday's top advertisers typically manage hundreds of campaigns simultaneously and consistently launch new ones throughout the year. A crucial challenge for marketing managers is determining the optimal allocation of limited budgets across various ad lines in each campaign to maximize cumulative returns, especially given the huge uncertainty in return outcomes. In this paper, we propose to formulate budget allocation as a multi-task combinatorial bandit problem and introduce a novel online budget allocation system. The proposed system: i) integrates a Bayesian hierarchical model to intelligently utilize the metadata of campaigns and ad lines and budget size, ensuring efficient information sharing; ii) provides the flexibility to incorporate diverse modeling techniques such as Linear Regression, Gaussian Processes, and Neural Networks, catering to diverse environmental complexities; and iii) employs the Thompson sampling technique to strike a balance between exploration and exploitation. Through extensive empirical evaluations with both synthetic data and real-world data from Amazon campaigns, our system demonstrates robustness and adaptability, effectively maximizing the overall cumulative returns. A Python implementation of the proposed procedure is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/MCMAB. Yang Xu 0089, Jianing Chu, David Cramer, Fuhong Li, Kelly Paulson, Rui Song 0006 |
KDD (1) | 6 |