arXiv:2607.14418cs.LGecon.GN2026-07

根据用户搜索行为动态调整广告位数量,平衡收入与体验。

Adaptive Ad Load Design for Sponsored Search Markets: Evidence, Theory, and Deployment

论文配图:Adaptive Ad Load Design for Sponsored Search Markets: Evidence, Theory, and Deployment
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  • 设计自适应算法e-LAAL,基于查询实时反馈调节广告数量。
  • 实验显示增广告位可提43%收入,但降5%转化率和2.2%日活。
  • 适合需要优化广告收益与用户体验平衡的平台方使用。

广告加载设计是赞助式搜索中的核心供给端决策:增加广告位可提升收入,但可能挤压自然结果并降低用户效果。我们通过一项大规模随机实地实验研究这一权衡,在安卓应用商店中对超过五百万用户展示1至6个广告位。增加广告负载使收入最高提升43%,但总搜索转化率下降最多5%,日活跃度下降最多2.2%。这些平均效应掩盖了显著异质性:高转化查询中新增广告位带来显著收入增长,而低转化查询中边际收益微弱甚至为负。该权衡随查询内广告主构成变化而动态调整,如品牌广告主出现时。受此启发,我们设计并部署了一种新型自适应算法——探索增强型局部自适应广告加载(e-LAAL)。e-LAAL结合无模型的查询级决策规则LAAL与静态探索臂,前者利用近期结果更新推荐,后者保持支持并提供固定策略反事实基准。我们为e-LAAL架构提供了有限时间动态遗憾保证。在服务2230万用户、7760万次搜索的平台级生产部署中,e-LAAL相比已部署的静态基准改善了收入-转化权衡,并优于均匀及历史查询依赖的静态基准。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Ad-load design is a central supply-side decision in sponsored search: more sponsored slots can raise revenue, but may crowd out organic results and degrade user outcomes. We study this trade-off using a large-scale randomized field experiment on an Android app store, where over five million users are exposed to one through six sponsored slots. Increasing ad load raises revenue by up to 43%, but reduces total search conversions by up to 5% and daily engagement by up to 2.2%. These average effects mask substantial heterogeneity: additional slots generate large revenue gains for high-ad-conversion queries, but little or negative marginal revenue for low-conversion queries. The trade-off also shifts within query as advertiser composition changes, such as brand-advertiser presence. Motivated by these findings, we design and deploy a novel adaptive algorithm -- exploration-augmented Locally Adaptive Ad Load (e-LAAL). e-LAAL combines LAAL, a model-free query-level decision rule that updates ad-load recommendations using recent outcomes, with static exploration arms that maintain support and provide fixed-policy counterfactual benchmarks. We provide a finite-time dynamic-regret guarantee for the e-LAAL architecture. In a platform-level production deployment serving 22.3 million users and 77.6 million searches, e-LAAL improves the empirical revenue--conversion trade-off relative to deployed static benchmarks and outperforms uniform and historical query-dependent static benchmarks.

广告系统自适应算法用户体验

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