EDBT 2026 Demo / reviewers in the wild / expert
Congshan Zhang
dblp:368/6900
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 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 · 50% Information theory · 50% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Computational social science and digital humanities · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Information theory
interference analysis |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Interference Among First-Price Pacing Equilibria: A Bias and Variance Analysis · ICLR 2025 |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design
market equilibrium |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Interference Among First-Price Pacing Equilibria: A Bias and Variance Analysis · ICLR 2025 |
Computational social science and digital humanities › online controlled experiments
a/b testing |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Interference Among First-Price Pacing Equilibria: A Bias and Variance Analysis · ICLR 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
plug-in estimator · 1.7debiased surrogate · 1.7budget-split design · 1.7asymptotic normality · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Interference Among First-Price Pacing Equilibria: A Bias and Variance AnalysisabstractA/B testing is widely used in the internet industry. For online marketplaces (such as advertising markets), standard approaches to A/B testing may lead to biased results when buyers have budget constraints, as budget consumption in one arm of the experiment impacts performance of the other arm.
This is often addressed using a budget-split design. Yet such splitting may degrade statistical performance as budgets become too small in each arm.
We propose a parallel budget-controlled A/B testing design where we use market segmentation to identify submarkets in the larger market, and we run parallel budget-split experiments in each submarket.
We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach on real experiments on advertising markets at Meta.
Then, we formally study interference that derives from such experimental designs, using the first-price pacing equilibrium framework as our model of market equilibration.
We propose a debiased surrogate that eliminates the first-order bias of FPPE, and derive a plug-in estimator for the surrogate and establish its asymptotic normality. We then provide an estimation procedure for submarket parallel budget-controlled A/B tests. Finally, we present numerical examples on semi-synthetic data, confirming that the debiasing technique achieves the desired coverage properties. Luofeng Liao, Christian Kroer, Sergei Leonenkov, Okke Schrijvers, Nicolás E. Stier Moses, Congshan Zhang |
ICLR | 7 |