MARCO Decomposes Click Intent for Calibrated Ad Conversion Prediction
Key takeaways
- Treating all ad clicks equally leads to biased conversion rate predictions.
- MARCO decomposes clicks by user intent, training specific CVR models for each intent.
- This approach significantly improves per-intent calibration and overall conversion rates.
- Deployment showed a +2.80% lift in conversions per click and +0.98% in topline metrics.
Who benefits
Summary
This research introduces MARCO, a framework that improves ad conversion prediction by decomposing clicks based on user intent, recognizing that not all clicks are equal. By training per-intent conversion rate models and composing their estimates, MARCO corrects calibration biases and significantly lifts conversions per click and overall topline metrics.
Why it matters
Marketing and sales professionals can achieve significantly more accurate ad conversion predictions, leading to optimized ad spend, higher ROI, and improved user experience by better matching ads to true intent.
How to implement this in your domain
- 1Analyze existing click data to identify distinct user interaction patterns that could signal different intents.
- 2Implement a system to log and categorize various click types as behavioral labels for intent.
- 3Develop and train separate CVR models for each identified click intent, as proposed by MARCO.
- 4Integrate the MARCO framework into ad serving systems to dynamically compose per-intent CVR estimates.
- 5Conduct A/B tests to validate the impact of intent-based CVR prediction on key advertising metrics.
Original post by Shiwen Shen, Xiru Huang, Liang Luo, Jianbo Sun, He Lyu, Zihang Fu, Ivonne Xu, Zhizhuo Li, Zhengyu Zhang, Pei-Ju Sung, Yunmiao Wang, Zixuan Wang, Zhengli Zhao, Qiang Jin, Mike Jermann, Mingda Li, Yang Xiao, Bhavana Challa, Brooke Bian, Yang Li, Ashish Chamoli, Bibek Bhusal, Danning Di, Yuan Jin, Meet Raval, Zhiwen Chen, Boyao Sun, Shuguang Wang, Yunlong He, Yantao Yao, Sagar Chordia, Wenlin Chen, Santanu Kolay, Qin Huang, Ellie Wen
"arXiv:2608.10562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Not all clicks are equal. Industrial ads ranking decouples conversion probability into click-through rate (CTR) and post-click conversion rate (CVR), yet treats every click as the same event. In reality, users provide a free, self-g…"
View on XOriginally posted by Shiwen Shen, Xiru Huang, Liang Luo, Jianbo Sun, He Lyu, Zihang Fu, Ivonne Xu, Zhizhuo Li, Zhengyu Zhang, Pei-Ju Sung, Yunmiao Wang, Zixuan Wang, Zhengli Zhao, Qiang Jin, Mike Jermann, Mingda Li, Yang Xiao, Bhavana Challa, Brooke Bian, Yang Li, Ashish Chamoli, Bibek Bhusal, Danning Di, Yuan Jin, Meet Raval, Zhiwen Chen, Boyao Sun, Shuguang Wang, Yunlong He, Yantao Yao, Sagar Chordia, Wenlin Chen, Santanu Kolay, Qin Huang, Ellie Wen on X · view source
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