Long-run User Value Optimization in Recommender Systems through Content Creation Modeling

04/25/2022
by   Akos Lada, et al.
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Content recommender systems are generally adept at maximizing immediate user satisfaction but to optimize for the long-run user value, we need more statistically sophisticated solutions than off-the-shelf simple recommender algorithms. In this paper we lay out such a solution to optimize long-run user value through discounted utility maximization and a machine learning method we have developed for estimating it. Our method estimates which content producers are most likely to create the highest long-run user value if their content is shown more to users who enjoy it in the present. We do this estimation with the help of an A/B test and heterogeneous effects machine learning model. We have used such models in Facebook's feed ranking system, and such a model can be used in other recommender systems.

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