EDBT 2026 Demo / reviewers in the wild / expert
Alexandre Salama-Manteau
dblp:340/8787
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2023
0000-0002-0371-4848ORCID · 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.
| 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 |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Zero to Hero: Exploiting Null Effects to Achieve Variance Reduction in Experiments with One-sided Triggering · WSDM 2023 |
Performance modeling and evaluation › online controlled experiments
treatment effect estimation |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Zero to Hero: Exploiting Null Effects to Achieve Variance Reduction in Experiments with One-sided Triggering · WSDM 2023 |
Performance modeling and evaluation › simulation
variance reduction |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Zero to Hero: Exploiting Null Effects to Achieve Variance Reduction in Experiments with One-sided Triggering · WSDM 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
principal stratification · 0.7instrumental variables · 0.7CUPED · 0.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Zero to Hero: Exploiting Null Effects to Achieve Variance Reduction in Experiments with One-sided TriggeringabstractIn online experiments where the intervention is only exposed, or "triggered", for a small subset of the population, it is critical to use variance reduction techniques to estimate treatment effects with sufficient precision to inform business decisions. Trigger-dilute analysis is often used in these situations, and reduce the sampling variance of overall intent-to-treat (ITT) effects by an order of magnitude equal to the inverse of the triggering rate; for example, a triggering rate of 5% corresponds to roughly a 20x reduction in variance. To apply trigger-dilute analysis, one needs to know experimental subjects' triggering counterfactual statuses, i.e., the counterfactual behavior of subjects under both treatment and control conditions. In this paper, we propose an unbiased ITT estimator with reduced variance applicable for experiments where the triggering counterfactual status is only observed in the treatment group. Our method is based on the efficiency augmentation idea of CUPED and draws upon identification frameworks from the principal stratification and instrumental variables literature. The unbiasedness of our estimation approach relies on a testable assumption that the augmentation term used for covariate adjustment equals zero in expectation. Unlike traditional covariate adjustment or principal score modeling approaches, our estimator can incorporate both pre-experiment and in-experiment observations. We demonstrate through both a real-world experiment and simulations that our estimator can remain unbiased and achieve precision improvements as large as if triggering status were fully observed, and in some cases can even outperform trigger-dilute analysis. Alex Deng, Lo-Hua Yuan, Naoya Kanai, Alexandre Salama-Manteau |
WSDM | 4 |