arXiv:2602.12972cs.SIcs.LG2026-02

解决优惠券广告中点击率偏差与提升效果估计难题

Jointly Optimizing Debiased CTR and Uplift for Coupons Marketing: A Unified Causal Framework

  • 提出统一多值干预框架,分离干预效应与用户偏好
  • 在工业数据集上实现更精准的基线点击率与提升曲线估计
  • 适合广告系统优化与精准营销策略制定者

在线广告中,优惠券等营销干预会引入显著混淆偏差,导致观测到的点击率混合了用户内在偏好与干预带来的提升。传统模型因此误校准基线点击率,影响下游排序与计费决策。此外,营销干预常为多值处理,不同优惠力度带来额外复杂性。为此,本文提出统一多值干预网络(UniMVT),通过解耦混淆因素与处理敏感表征,实现全空间反事实推断,联合重建去偏基线点击率与强度-响应曲线。为应对多值处理复杂性,UniMVT引入辅助强度估计任务以捕捉处理倾向,并设计单位提升目标,使干预效果在连续优惠值范围内可比。该方法同时实现精准的去偏点击率预测与提升估计,广泛实验表明其在合成与工业数据集上均优于现有方法;真实A/B测试验证其通过更优优惠券分配显著提升业务指标。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

In online advertising, marketing interventions such as coupons introduce significant confounding bias into Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction. Observed clicks reflect a mixture of users' intrinsic preferences and the uplift induced by these interventions. This causes conventional models to miscalibrate base CTRs, which distorts downstream ranking and billing decisions. Furthermore, marketing interventions often operate as multi-valued treatments with varying magnitudes, introducing additional complexity to CTR prediction. To address these issues, we propose the \textbf{Uni}fied \textbf{M}ulti-\textbf{V}alued \textbf{T}reatment Network (UniMVT). Specifically, UniMVT disentangles confounding factors from treatment-sensitive representations, enabling a full-space counterfactual inference module to jointly reconstruct the debiased base CTR and intensity-response curves. To handle the complexity of multi-valued treatments, UniMVT employs an auxiliary intensity estimation task to capture treatment propensities and devise a unit uplift objective that normalizes the intervention effect. This ensures comparable estimation across the continuous coupon-value spectrum. UniMVT simultaneously achieves debiased CTR prediction for accurate system calibration and precise uplift estimation for incentive allocation. Extensive experiments on synthetic and industrial datasets demonstrate UniMVT's superiority in both predictive accuracy and calibration. Furthermore, real-world A/B tests confirm that UniMVT significantly improves business metrics through more effective coupon distribution.

点击率预测因果推断优惠券营销去偏建模

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