Stageboost: Recommending Signals Based on Counterfactual Estimation

arXiv:2608.27366 · cs.IR, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-27 · Read on arXiv

cs.IR, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-08-27

Updated: 2026-08-27

Terminology

• Causal Inference — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Personalization — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Conversion Likelihood Estimator — 2× in this paper
• Gross Merchandise Bought — 2× in this paper
• Selection Bias — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Sparsity — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• View Item — 2× in this paper
• AUC — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Average Selling Price — 1× in this paper
• Contextual Bandits — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Online Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 24 episodes
• Two-Stage Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Reinforcement Learning for Uplift Modeling
• Optimal signals assignment for eBay View Item page
• Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits for Causal Marketing

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