A Nonparametric Bayes Approach to Online Activity Prediction
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| author | Beraha, Mario Masoero, Lorenzo Favaro, Stefano Richardson, Thomas S. |
| author_facet | Beraha, Mario Masoero, Lorenzo Favaro, Stefano Richardson, Thomas S. |
| contents | Accurately predicting the onset of specific activities within defined timeframes holds significant importance in several applied contexts. In particular, accurate prediction of the number of future users that will be exposed to an intervention is an important piece of information for experimenters running online experiments (A/B tests). In this work, we propose a novel approach to predict the number of users that will be active in a given time period, as well as the temporal trajectory needed to attain a desired user participation threshold. We model user activity using a Bayesian nonparametric approach which allows us to capture the underlying heterogeneity in user engagement. We derive closed-form expressions for the number of new users expected in a given period, and a simple Monte Carlo algorithm targeting the posterior distribution of the number of days needed to attain a desired number of users; the latter is important for experimental planning. We illustrate the performance of our approach via several experiments on synthetic and real world data, in which we show that our novel method outperforms existing competitors. |
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| spellingShingle | A Nonparametric Bayes Approach to Online Activity Prediction Beraha, Mario Masoero, Lorenzo Favaro, Stefano Richardson, Thomas S. Methodology Machine Learning Applications Accurately predicting the onset of specific activities within defined timeframes holds significant importance in several applied contexts. In particular, accurate prediction of the number of future users that will be exposed to an intervention is an important piece of information for experimenters running online experiments (A/B tests). In this work, we propose a novel approach to predict the number of users that will be active in a given time period, as well as the temporal trajectory needed to attain a desired user participation threshold. We model user activity using a Bayesian nonparametric approach which allows us to capture the underlying heterogeneity in user engagement. We derive closed-form expressions for the number of new users expected in a given period, and a simple Monte Carlo algorithm targeting the posterior distribution of the number of days needed to attain a desired number of users; the latter is important for experimental planning. We illustrate the performance of our approach via several experiments on synthetic and real world data, in which we show that our novel method outperforms existing competitors. |
| title | A Nonparametric Bayes Approach to Online Activity Prediction |
| topic | Methodology Machine Learning Applications |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14722 |