EDBT 2026 Demo / reviewers in the wild / expert
Soojin Min
dblp:424/6188
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0009-0671-3419ORCID · 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.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Information retrieval · 67% Recommender systems · 33% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Information retrieval › online advertising › sponsored search
ad auction |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Breaking Determinism: Stochastic Modeling for Reliable Off-Policy Evaluation in Ad Auctions · WSDM 2026 |
Recommender systems › recommender system evaluation
off-policy evaluation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Breaking Determinism: Stochastic Modeling for Reliable Off-Policy Evaluation in Ad Auctions · WSDM 2026 |
Information retrieval
online advertising |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Breaking Determinism: Stochastic Modeling for Reliable Off-Policy Evaluation in Ad Auctions · WSDM 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
inverse propensity scoring · 1.0bid landscape model · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Breaking Determinism: Stochastic Modeling for Reliable Off-Policy Evaluation in Ad AuctionsabstractOnline A/B testing, the gold standard for evaluating new advertising policies, consumes substantial engineering resources and risks significant revenue loss from deploying underperforming variations. This motivates the use of Off-Policy Evaluation (OPE) for rapid, offline assessment. However, applying OPE to ad auctions is fundamentally more challenging than in domains like recommender systems, where stochastic policies are common. In online ad auctions, it is common for the highest-bidding ad to win the impression, resulting in a deterministic, winner-takes-all setting. This results in zero probability of exposure for non-winning ads, rendering standard OPE estimators inapplicable. We introduce the first principled framework for OPE in deterministic auctions by repurposing the bid landscape model to approximate the propensity score. This model allows us to derive robust approximate propensity scores, enabling the use of stable estimators like Self-Normalized Inverse Propensity Scoring (SNIPS) for counterfactual evaluation. We validate our approach on the AuctionNet simulation benchmark and against 2-weeks online A/B test from a large-scale industrial platform. Our method shows remarkable alignment with online results, achieving a 92% Mean Directional Accuracy (MDA) in CTR prediction, significantly outperforming the parametric baseline. MDA is the most critical metric for guiding deployment decisions, as it reflects the ability to correctly predict whether a new model will improve or harm performance. This work contributes the first practical and validated framework for reliable OPE in deterministic auction environments, offering an efficient alternative to costly and risky online experiments. Hongseon Yeom, Jaeyoul Shin, Soojin Min, Jeongmin Yoon, Seunghak Yu, Dongyeop Kang |
WSDM | 3 |