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Kevin Liou
dblp:269/4988
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
0since 2021 · last 2020
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-authorTheory of computation · 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.
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper |
Performance modeling and evaluation · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Performance modeling and evaluation
online controlled experiments |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | Variance-Weighted Estimators to Improve Sensitivity in Online Experiments · EC 2020 |
Performance modeling and evaluation › online controlled experiments
treatment effect estimation |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | Variance-Weighted Estimators to Improve Sensitivity in Online Experiments · EC 2020 |
Performance modeling and evaluation › simulation
variance reduction |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | Variance-Weighted Estimators to Improve Sensitivity in Online Experiments · EC 2020 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
variance-weighted estimator · 0.4pre-experiment data · 0.4coefficient of variation · 0.4
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Variance-Weighted Estimators to Improve Sensitivity in Online ExperimentsabstractAs companies increasingly rely on experiments to make product decisions, precisely measuring changes in key metrics is important. Various methods to increase sensitivity in experiments have been proposed, including methods that use pre-experiment data, machine learning, and more advanced experimental designs. However, prior work has not explored modeling heterogeneity in the variance of individual experimental users. We propose a more sensitive treatment effect estimator that relies on estimating the individual variances of experimental users using pre-experiment data. We show that that weighted estimators using individual-level variance estimates can reduce the variance of treatment effect estimates, and prove that the coefficient of variation of the sample population variance is a sufficient statistic for determining the scale of possible variance reduction. We provide empirical results from case studies at Facebook demonstrating the effectiveness of this approach, where the average experiment achieved a 17% reduction in variance with minimal impact on bias. Kevin Liou, Sean J. Taylor |
EC | 1 |