Multi-task Learning - Publications - Faculty & Research

2024
Working Paper

Incrementality Representation Learning: Synergizing Past Experiments for Intervention Personalization

By: Ta-Wei Huang, Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli

This paper introduces Incrementality Representation Learning (IRL), a novel multitask representation learning framework that predicts heterogeneous causal effects of marketing interventions. By leveraging past experiments, IRL efficiently designs and targets... View Details

Keywords: Heterogeneous Treatment Effect; Multi-task Learning; Representation Learning; Personalization; Promotion; Deep Learning; Field Experiments; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customization and Personalization

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interventions. Unlike traditional multi-task learning methods that build separate models for each intervention, IRL uses a unified prediction model across past experiments to enhance generalizability. We... View Details

04 May 2020
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6 Things You Should Know About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

(MBA/MPP 2017) and Taniel Chan (MBA/MPP 2017) are invested in understanding how social change can be driven through public-private partnerships. Being the tremendous multi-taskers they are, they’re also eager to help prospective students... View Details

04 Nov 2010
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Why Do We Chase Stars?

the time to learn their new company's management processes." Stephen Basikoti put it this way: "The fact that some transplanted leaders do not succeed does not negate the fact that management performance is portable; it simply... View Details

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accomplish our goals and juggle many activities at once. Attributes of Successful Staff Members Flexibility Ability to multi-task and appropriately prioritize Eagerness to learn Customer Orientation Good... View Details

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