arXiv:2509.05292cs.LG2025-09被引 2

用深度强化学习自动优化广告推荐的收益函数,提升点击率。

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Ranking Utility Tuning in the Ad Recommender System at Pinterest

  • 将收益调优建模为强化学习问题,实时预测最优参数
  • 在线实验中点击率提升9.7%,长期点击率提升7.7%
  • 可个性化适配用户和季节变化,适合大规模推荐系统

广告推荐系统的排序收益函数通过线性组合多个业务目标的预测值,对平台、广告主和用户之间的价值平衡至关重要。传统人工调优虽简单易懂,但因目标不明确、参数组合庞大且缺乏个性化与季节适应性,常导致次优结果。本文提出一种通用的深度强化学习框架——个性化收益调优(DRL-PUT),用于解决广告推荐系统中的多目标优化挑战。核心贡献包括:1)将问题形式化为强化学习任务,根据广告请求状态预测最优超参数以最大化预定义奖励;2)提出直接基于线上服务日志学习最优策略模型的方法,避免了因即时奖励方差大、分布不平衡而难以估计价值函数的问题。我们在Pinterest广告推荐系统中进行了在线A/B测试。相较于基线人工调优方法,DRL-PUT在处理组中使点击率提升9.7%,长期点击率提升7.7%。我们还对不同奖励定义的影响进行了详尽消融实验,并分析了所学策略模型的个性化能力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The ranking utility function in an ad recommender system, which linearly combines predictions of various business goals, plays a central role in balancing values across the platform, advertisers, and users. Traditional manual tuning, while offering simplicity and interpretability, often yields suboptimal results due to its unprincipled tuning objectives, the vast amount of parameter combinations, and its lack of personalization and adaptability to seasonality. In this work, we propose a general Deep Reinforcement Learning framework for Personalized Utility Tuning (DRL-PUT) to address the challenges of multi-objective optimization within ad recommender systems. Our key contributions include: 1) Formulating the problem as a reinforcement learning task: given the state of an ad request, we predict the optimal hyperparameters to maximize a pre-defined reward. 2) Developing an approach to directly learn an optimal policy model using online serving logs, avoiding the need to estimate a value function, which is inherently challenging due to the high variance and unbalanced distribution of immediate rewards. We evaluated DRL-PUT through an online A/B experiment in Pinterest's ad recommender system. Compared to the baseline manual utility tuning approach, DRL-PUT improved the click-through rate by 9.7% and the long click-through rate by 7.7% on the treated segment. We conducted a detailed ablation study on the impact of different reward definitions and analyzed the personalization aspect of the learned policy model.

强化学习推荐系统广告优化个性化

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