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Yeming Shi
dblp:210/6410
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
0since 2021 · last 2018
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-authorDatabases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 first-author
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 · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Information retrieval
online advertising |
0.3 | 1 | 2018 | Audience Size Forecasting: Fast and Smart Budget Planning for Media Buyers · KDD 2018 |
Information retrieval › online advertising
audience targeting |
0.1 | 1 | 2018 | Audience Size Forecasting: Fast and Smart Budget Planning for Media Buyers · KDD 2018 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
sketching · 0.3regularized linear regression · 0.3minhash · 0.3
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Audience Size Forecasting: Fast and Smart Budget Planning for Media BuyersabstractA growing proportion of digital advertising slots is purchased through real time bidding auctions, which enables advertisers to impose highly specific criteria on which devices and opportunities to target. Employing sophisticated targeting criteria reliably increases the performance of an ad campaign, however too strict criteria will limit its scale. This raises the need to estimate the number of anticipated ad impressions at a given campaign performance level, thus enabling advertisers to tune the campaign's budget to an optimal performance-scale trade-off. In this paper, we provide a way to estimate campaign impressions given the campaign criteria. There are several challenges to this problem. First, the criteria contain logic to include and exclude combinations of audience segments, making the space of possible criteria exponentially large. Furthermore, it is difficult to validate predictions, because we wish to predict the number of impressions available without budget constraints, a situation we can rarely observe in practice. In our approach, we first treat the audience segment inclusion/exclusion criteria separately as a data compression problem, where we use MinHash "sketches" to estimate audience size. We then model the number of available impressions with a regularized linear regression in log space, using multiplier features motivated by the assumption that some components of the additional campaign criteria are conditionally independent. We construct a validation set by projecting observed RTB data (under real budget constraints) to get impression availability without budget constraints. Using this approach, our average prediction is a factor of 2.2 from the true impression availability, and the deployed product responds to user requests in well under a second, meeting both accuracy and latency requirements for decision making in the execution of advertising campaigns. Yeming Shi, Claudia Perlich, Rod Hook, Wickus Martin, Melinda Han Williams, Justin Moynihan, Patrick McCarthy, Peter Lenz, Reka Daniel-Weiner, Roger Cost |
KDD | 1 |