arXiv:2602. 12972v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In online advertising, marketing interventions such as coupons introduce significant confounding bias into Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction.
By Siyun Yang, Shixiao Yang, Jian Wang, Di Fan, Kehe Cai, Haoyan Fu, Jiaming Zhang, Wenjin Wu, Peng Jiang
arXiv:2511. 07280v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Personalized recommendation systems shape much of user choice online, yet their targeted nature makes separating out the value of recommendation and the underlying goods challenging.
By Kevin Zielnicki, Guy Aridor, Aur\'elien Bibaut, Allen Tran, Winston Chou, Nathan Kallus
arXiv:2608. 10562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Not all clicks are equal.
By Shiwen Shen, Xiru Huang, Liang Luo, Jianbo Sun, He Lyu, Zihang Fu, Ivonne Xu, Zhizhuo Li, Zhengyu Zhang, Pei-Ju Sung, Yunmiao Wang, Zixuan Wang, Zhengli Zhao, Qiang Jin, Mike Jermann, Mingda Li, Yang Xiao, Bhavana Challa, Brooke Bian, Yang Li, Ashish Chamoli, Bibek Bhusal, Danning Di, Yuan Jin, Meet Raval, Zhiwen Chen, Boyao Sun, Shuguang Wang, Yunlong He, Yantao Yao, Sagar Chordia, Wenlin Chen, Santanu Kolay, Qin Huang, Ellie Wen
arXiv:2607. 19526v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: "Stop Chasing the C-index when Evaluating Survival Analysis Models" (ICML 2026, Spotlight) argued normatively, on synthetic data, that evaluating survival models by discrimination alone, i.
By Rafael da Silva, Danilo Alvares
arXiv:2506. 02075v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The current state of evaluation in survival analysis is plagued by the persistent use of evaluation metrics in ways that are misaligned with the stated modeling objective.
By Christian Marius Lillelund, Shi-ang Qi, Russell Greiner, Christian Fischer Pedersen
arXiv:2607. 26545v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose an index for predicting the U.
By Hayden Helm, Andrew Dassori
arXiv:2604. 08870v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Student dropout is a persistent concern in Learning Analytics, yet comparative studies frequently evaluate predictive models under heterogeneous protocols, prioritizing discrimination over temporal interpretability and calibration.
By Rafael da Silva, Jeff Eicher, Gregory Longo
arXiv:2606. 26690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In large-scale paid acquisition and growth advertising systems, production attribution outputs are widely used for daily budget allocation and channel diagnosis.
By Donghui Li, Bowen Yuan, Zili Yang, Qinxin Chen, Lijing Song
arXiv:2608. 15689v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study presents a hybrid epidemiological and behavioural framework to simulate the spread of health misinformation on social media.
By Mkululi Sikosana, Sean Maudsley-Barton, Oluwaseun Ajao
arXiv:2607. 16239v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI judges offer a scalable, low-cost alternative to human evaluation, but their outputs can be biased relative to human preferences and highly item-dependent, varying across judges, tasks, and domains.
By Lei Shi, Anlan Zhang, Rita Lyu, Zhengmian Hu, Tong Yu, David Arbour, Avi Feller, Saayan Mitra, Ritwik Sinha
arXiv:2602. 18518v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Content safety teams need metrics that reflect what users actually experience, not only what is reported.
By Attila Dobi, Aravindh Manickavasagam, Benjamin Thompson, Xiaohan Yang, Faisal Farooq
arXiv:2608. 04455v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: One of the most challenging problems entertainment live-streaming services face in recommendation systems is that user behaviors are sparse and delayed, and interaction data exhibits bias for different user segments.
By Xiaoyi Gu, Julia Tavares, Eder Santana, Carlos Mendoza-Cardenas, Nikita Mishra, Saad Ali