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Counterfactual Evaluation of Ads Ranking Models through Domain Adaptation

Information Retrieval 2024-12-13 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

We propose a domain-adapted reward model that works alongside an Offline A/B testing system for evaluating ranking models. This approach effectively measures reward for ranking model changes in large-scale Ads recommender systems, where model-free methods like IPS are not feasible. Our experiments demonstrate that the proposed technique outperforms both the vanilla IPS method and approaches using non-generalized reward models.

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@article{arxiv.2409.19824,
  title  = {Counterfactual Evaluation of Ads Ranking Models through Domain Adaptation},
  author = {Mohamed A. Radwan and Himaghna Bhattacharjee and Quinn Lanners and Jiasheng Zhang and Serkan Karakulak and Houssam Nassif and Murat Ali Bayir},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.19824},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Accepted at the CONSEQUENCES'24 workshop, co-located with ACM RecSys'24