Forecasting Counts of User Visits for Online Display Advertising with Prob. Latent Class Models
Abstract
Display advertising is a multi-billion dollar industry where advertisers promote their products to users by having publishers display their advertisements on popular Web pages. An important problem in online advertising is how to forecast the number of user visits for a Web page during a particular period of time. Prior research addressed the problem by using traditional time-series forecasting techniques on historical data of user visits; (e.g., via a single regression model built for forecasting based on historical data for all Web pages) and did not fully explore the fact that different types of Web pages have different patterns of user visits.
In this paper we propose a probabilistic latent class model to automatically learn the underlying user visit patterns among multiple Web pages. Experiments carried out on real-world data demonstrate the advantage of using latent classes in forecasting online user visits.
Keywords
display advertising, experimentation, forcasting, user visits
Date of this Version
2011
DOI
10.1145/2009916.2010127
Comments
SIGIR '11 Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information