arXiv:2504.20471cs.LGcs.AI2025-04

解决用户行为变化下的因果效应估计难题,提升营销优化效果。

The Estimation of Continual Causal Effect for Dataset Shifting Streams

  • 用反事实回归消除混淆偏差,支持多策略在线建模
  • 增量训练+知识蒸馏,有效应对数据分布随时间漂移
  • 新评估指标更适配多策略场景,已落地网约车平台

因果效应估计广泛应用于营销优化。现有实践中常采用升幅模型结合约束优化算法的框架。为提升在线环境下的表现,需应对时间序列数据分布漂移带来的复杂性。本文聚焦用户行为与领域分布随时间的变化,提出增量因果效应与代理知识蒸馏(ICE-PKD)框架。该框架包含两部分:(i) 多处理升幅网络,通过反事实回归消除混淆偏差;(ii) 增量训练策略,利用最新数据更新模型,并通过基于重放的知识蒸馏保护泛化能力。我们还重新审视升幅建模评估指标,提出一种适用于多处理场景的新型评估指标。在模拟与真实在线数据集上的大量实验表明,所提框架性能更优。ICE-PKD已在华夏猪(中国网约车平台)的营销系统中部署。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Causal effect estimation has been widely used in marketing optimization. The framework of an uplift model followed by a constrained optimization algorithm is popular in practice. To enhance performance in the online environment, the framework needs to be improved to address the complexities caused by temporal dataset shift. This paper focuses on capturing the dataset shift from user behavior and domain distribution changing over time. We propose an Incremental Causal Effect with Proxy Knowledge Distillation (ICE-PKD) framework to tackle this challenge. The ICE-PKD framework includes two components: (i) a multi-treatment uplift network that eliminates confounding bias using counterfactual regression; (ii) an incremental training strategy that adapts to the temporal dataset shift by updating with the latest data and protects generalization via replay-based knowledge distillation. We also revisit the uplift modeling metrics and introduce a novel metric for more precise online evaluation in multiple treatment scenarios. Extensive experiments on both simulated and online datasets show that the proposed framework achieves better performance. The ICE-PKD framework has been deployed in the marketing system of Huaxiaozhu, a ride-hailing platform in China.

因果推断在线学习营销优化数据漂移

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