Abstract:
Some embodiments include a method of generating a compatibility score for a grouping of objects based on correlations between attributes of the objects. An example grouping is a pair of user and ad. The method may be implemented using a multi-threaded pipeline architecture that utilizes a learning model to compute the compatibility score. The learning model determines correlations between a first object's attributes (e.g., user's liked pages, user demographics, user's apps installed, pixels visited, etc.) and a second object's attributes (e.g., expressed or implied). Example expressed attributes can be targeting keywords; example implied attributes can be object IDs associated with the ad.
Abstract:
An online system tracks stores information identifying content provided by third party systems and accessed by online system users as well as interactions with advertisements performed by online system users. When the online system identifies an opportunity to present an advertisement to a viewing user, the online system identifies content from third party systems accessed by the viewing user and content from third party systems accessed by additional online system users who interacted with advertisements. A score is computed for various advertisements based at least in part on correlations between content from third party systems accessed by the viewing user and content from third party systems accessed by additional online system users who interacted with advertisements. The online system selects candidate advertisements to evaluate for presentation to the viewing user based on the scores.
Abstract:
An online system selects items for display in content provided to users by considering the value of each item to third-party content providers as well as user's interests. The online system receives a catalog including items that are each associated with weights from a third-party content provider for inclusion in sponsored content to be presented to users of an online system. The weights have values indicating measures of importance of the items to the third-party content provider on a per-item basis. The online system identifies a request for sponsored content, and selects one or more items from the catalog for inclusion in a dynamic sponsored content item. The online system calculates a weighted user preference score using a weight associated with an item and affinity information describing the user's affinity for the item.
Abstract:
An online system generates a content item for a user based on products likely to be of interest to the user. The online system receives information about products associated one or more third party systems accessed by users of the online system. When the online system identifies an opportunity to present to a user, the online system identifies candidate products for inclusion in the content item based on products previously accessed by the users. For example, the online system identifies candidate products based on products accessed by the user and by one or more other users. Based on likelihoods of the user accessing content items including different candidate products, the online system selects a candidate product and includes the content item having information about the selected candidate product in one or more selection processes that select content for presentation to the user.
Abstract:
An online system generates a content item for a user based on products likely to be of interest to the user. The online system receives information about content provided by one or more third party systems the user accessed and determines products associated with accessed content. When the online system identifies an opportunity to present to a user, the online system retrieves products maintained by the online system and identifies candidate products for inclusion in the content item based on relevance of the products to the user. The online system determines probabilities of the user accessing the content item including different candidate products and removes combinations of the content item and candidate products having less than a threshold probability of user interaction. The online system includes one or more combinations of the content item and candidate products in one or more selection processes selecting content for presentation to the user.
Abstract:
An online system receives content items, for example, from content providers and sends the content items to users. The online system uses machine-learning models for predicting whether a user is likely to interact with a content item. The online system uses stored user interactions to measure the model performance to determine whether the model can be used online. The online system determines a baseline model using stored user interactions. The online system determines whether the machine-learning model performs better than the baseline model or worse for each content provider. The online system determines whether to approve the model for online use based on an aggregate normalized performance metric, for example, a metric representing the fraction of content providers for which the model performs better than the baseline. If the online system determines to reject the model, the online system retrains the model.
Abstract:
Some embodiments include a method of generating a compatibility score for a grouping of objects based on correlations between attributes of the objects. An example grouping is a pair of user and ad. The method may be implemented using a multi-threaded pipeline architecture that utilizes a learning model to compute the compatibility score. The learning model determines correlations between a first object's attributes (e.g., user's liked pages, user demographics, user's apps installed, pixels visited, etc.) and a second object's attributes (e.g., expressed or implied). Example expressed attributes can be targeting keywords; example implied attributes can be object IDs associated with the ad.