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Click-through rate (CTR) prediction of advertisements on online social network platforms to optimize advertising is of much interest. Prior works build machine learning models that take a user-centric approach in terms of training -- using predominantly user data to classify whether a user will click on an advertisement or not. While this approach has proven effective, it is inaccessible to most entities and relies heavily on user data. To accommodate for this, we first consider a large set of advertisement data on Facebook and use natural language processing (NLP) to extract key concepts that we call conceptual nodes. To predict the value of CTR for a combination of conceptual nodes, we use the advertisement data to train four machine learning (ML) models. We then cast the problem of finding the optimal combination of conceptual nodes as an optimization problem. Given a certain budget $k$, we are interested in finding the optimal combination of conceptual nodes that maximize the CTR. A discussion of the hardness and possible NP-hardness of the optimization problem is provided. Then, we propose a greedy algorithm and a genetic algorithm to find near-optimal combinations of conceptu

Author

Hudson, Nathaniel; Khamfroush, Hana; Harrison, Brent; Craig, Adam

Published

2019

Language

EN