This paper investigates an approach to both speed up business decision-making and lower the cost of learning through experimentation by factorizing business policies and employing fractional factorial experimental designs for their evaluation. We illustrate how this method integrates with advances in the estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects, elaborating on its advantages and foundational assumptions. We empirically demonstrate the implementation and benefits of our approach and assess its validity in evaluating consumer promotion policies at DoorDash, which is one of the largest delivery platforms in the US. Our approach discovers a policy with 5% incremental profit at 67% lower implementation cost.

In contrastive self-supervised learning, such as Sim-CLR and MOCO, negative samples play an important role on the model's robustness. Instead of increasing the negatives' number, we promote the in-batch negatives' quality by adjusting their embedding. In-Batch Negatives' Enhanced Self-Supervised Learning (IBN-SSL) focus on negatives' quality by an importance-weighted algorithm and an online boundary. The importance-weighted negatives' quality algorithm decreases the negatives' relative locations from positive in projection space, which pushes the model to learn to distinguish positives from harder negatives. And the online boundary compresses negatives' vector space and keep negatives farther from positive. A better representation model can be leaned by IBN-SSL, and experiments show that it outperforms both RoBERTa and SimCLR in text classification task and similar sentence pair task.