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Program 

AdKDD 2021, in conjunction with KDD 2021, will be live-streamed on YouTube. All times below are in Pacific Time, spread across two days, August 14-15. Timings are subject to change.

PDFs, slides, or videos, will be released at the start of the workshop
Time
Title
Presenter
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Staging E-Commerce Products for Online Advertising using Retrieval Assisted Image Generation
Yueh-Ning Ku, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Shaunak Mishra and Paloma de Juan
10:15 AM - 11:10 AM
Keynote
Shobha Diwakar
11:10 AM - 11:25 AM
AdaEnsemble: Learning Adaptively Sparse Structured Ensemble Network for Click-Through Rate Prediction
Yachen Yan and Liubo Li
11:25 AM - 11:55 AM
Invited Talk - Measuring Incrementality in LinkedIn's Job Marketplace
Giorgio Martini
11:55 AM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
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1:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Towards the Better Ranking Consistency: A Multi-task Learning Framework for Early Stage Ads Ranking
Xuewei Wang, Qiang Jin, Shengyu Huang, Min Zhang, Xi Liu, Zhengli Zhao, Yukun Chen, Zhengyu Zhang, Jiyan Yang, Ellie Wen, Sagar Chordia, Wenlin Chen and Qin Huang
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Hierarchical Queries Optimization for the Attribution Reporting API
Matt Dawson, Badih Ghazi, Pritish Kamath, Kapil Kumar, Ravi Kumar, Bo Luan, Pasin Manurangsi, Nishanth Mundru, Harikesh Nair, Adam Sealfon and Shengyu Zhu
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Practical Budget Pacing Algorithms and Simulation Test Bed for eBay Marketplace Sponsored Search
Phuong Ha Nguyen, Djordje Gligorijevic, Arnab Borah, Gajanan Adalinge and Abraham Bagherjeiran
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
Fireside Chat
Ashvin Kannan
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Coffee Break
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3:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Private Ad Modeling with DP-SGD
Carson Denison, Badih Ghazi, Pritish Kamath, Ravi Kumar, Pasin Manurangsi, Krishna Giri Narra, Amer Sinha, Avinash Varadarajan and Chiyuan Zhang
3:45 PM - 4:40 PM
Keynote
Michael Ostrovsky
4:40 PM - 4:55 PM
Scaling Generative Pre-training for User Ad Activity Sequences
Sharad Chitlangia, Krishna Reddy Kesari and Rajat Agarwal
4:55 PM - 5:00 PM
Closing Remarks
AdKDD Organizers
8:20 AM - 8:25 AM
Opening Remarks
AdKDD Organizers
8:25 AM - 8:40 AM
TwERC: High Performance Ensembled Candidate Generation for Ads Recommendation at Twitter
Vanessa Cai, Pradeep Prabakar, Manuel Serrano Rebuelta, Lucas Rosen, Federico Monti, Katarzyna Janocha, Tomo Lazovich, Jeetu Raj, Yedendra Shrinivasan, Hao Li and Thomas Markovich
8:40 AM - 8:55 AM
Advancing Ad Auction Realism: Practical Insights & Modeling Implications
Ming Chen, Sareh Nabi and Marciano Siniscalchi
8:55 AM - 9:25 AM
Invited Talk
Jacopo Tagliabue
9:25 AM - 10:00 AM
Coffee Break
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