Live Session
Session 12: Optimisation and Evaluation 2
Main Track
AIE: Auction Information Enhanced Framework for CTR Prediction in Online Advertising
Yang Yang (Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab), Bo Chen (Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab), Chenxu Zhu (Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab), Menghui Zhu (Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab), Xinyi Dai (Huawei Noah Ark’s Lab), Huifeng Guo (Huawei Noah Ark’s Lab), Muyu Zhang (Huawei Noah Ark’s Lab), Zhenhua Dong (Huawei Noah Ark’s Lab) and Ruiming Tang (Huawei Noah Ark’s Lab)
Abstract
Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is a fundamental technique for online advertising recommendation and the complex online competitive auction process also brings many difficulties to CTR optimization. Recent studies have shown that introducing posterior auction information contributes to the performance of CTR prediction. However, existing work doesn’t fully capitalize on the benefits of auction information and overlooks the data bias brought by the auction, leading to biased and suboptimal results. To address these limitations, we propose Auction Information Enhanced Framework (AIE) for CTR prediction in online advertising, which delves into the problem of insufficient utilization of auction signals and first reveals the auction bias. Specifically, AIE introduces two pluggable modules, namely Adaptive Market-price AuxiliaryModule (AM2) and Bid Calibration Module (BCM), which work collaboratively to excavate the posterior auction signals better and enhance the performance of CTR prediction. Furthermore, the two proposed modules are lightweight, model-agnostic and friendly to inference latency. Extensive experiments are conducted on a public dataset and an industrial dataset to demonstrate the effectiveness and compatibility of AIE. Besides, a one-month online A/B test in a large-scale advertising platform shows that AIE improves the base model by 5.76% and 2.44% in terms of eCPM and CTR, respectively.