2018 OfflineABTestingforRecommenderS

• (Gilotte et al., 2018) ⇒ Alexandre Gilotte, Clément Calauzènes, Thomas Nedelec, Alexandre Abraham, and Simon Dollé. (2018). “Offline A/B Testing for Recommender Systems.” In: Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. ISBN:978-1-4503-5581-0 doi:10.1145/3159652.3159687

Subject Headings: Offline A/B Testing.

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Abstract

Online A/B testing evaluates the impact of a new technology by running it in a real production environment and testing its performance on a subset of the users of the platform. It is a well-known practice to run a preliminary offline evaluation on historical data to iterate faster on new ideas, and to detect poor policies in order to avoid losing money or breaking the system. For such offline evaluations, we are interested in methods that can compute offline an estimate of the potential uplift of performance generated by a new technology. Offline performance can be measured using estimators known as counterfactual or off-policy estimators. Traditional counterfactual estimators, such as capped importance sampling or normalised importance sampling, exhibit unsatisfying bias-variance compromises when experimenting on personalized product recommendation systems. To overcome this issue, we model the bias incurred by these estimators rather than bound it in the worst case, which leads us to propose a new counterfactual estimator. We provide a benchmark of the different estimators showing their correlation with business metrics observed by running online A/B tests on a large-scale commercial recommender system.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2018 OfflineABTestingforRecommenderS	Alexandre Gilotte Clément Calauzènes Thomas Nedelec Alexandre Abraham Simon Dollé			Offline A/B Testing for Recommender Systems				10.1145/3159652.3159687		2018