Foster Provost

New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences

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44 West Fourth Street

New York, NY 10012

United States

  • New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences

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1.

In Pursuit of Enhanced Customer Retention Management: Review, Key Issues, and Future Directions

Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2903548, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-16
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 23 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2017
Eva Ascarza, Scott Neslin, Oded Netzer, Zachery Anderson, Peter Fader, Sunil Gupta, Bruce Hardie, Aurelie Lemmens, Barak Libai, David Neal, Foster Provost and Rom Y. Schrift
Harvard Business School, Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Marketing, Electronic Arts, University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department, Harvard University - Business School (HBS), London Business School, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Reichman University, Duke University, New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
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Information in Digital, Economic and Social Networks

Information Systems Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 05 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2012
Arun Sundararajan, Foster Provost, Gal Oestreicher-Singer and Sinan Aral
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences, Tel Aviv University - Coller School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 1,591 (25,331)
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Pseudo-Social Network Targeting from Consumer Transaction Data

NYU Working Paper No. CEDER-11-05
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 28 Sep 2011
David Martens and Foster Provost
University of Antwerp and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
Downloads 1,055 (46,198)

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Evaluating and Optimizing Online Advertising: Forget the Click, But There are Good Proxies

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/31637
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 27 Oct 2012
Brian Dalessandro, Rod Hook, Claudia Perlich and Foster Provost
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, IBM Corporation - Thomas J. Watson Research Center and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Machine Learning for Targeted Display Advertising: Transfer Learning in Action

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/31829
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 21 Feb 2013
C. Perlich, B. Dalessandro, O. Stitelman, T. Raeder and Foster Provost
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Explaining Data-Driven Document Classifications

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/31831
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 24 Jun 2013
David Martens and Foster Provost
University of Antwerp and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
Downloads 563 (106,422)
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Document Classification, Instance Level Explanation, Text mining, Comprehensibility

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Observational vs Experimental Data When Making Automated Decisions Using Machine Learning

NYU Stern School of Business
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 05 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2025
Carlos Fernández-Loría and Foster Provost
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
Downloads 552 (109,078)

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confounding, causal inference, treatment assignment

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Viral Marketing: Identifying Likely Adopters Via Consumer Networks

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/14128
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 09 Oct 2008
Shawndra Hill, Foster Provost and Chris Volinsky
Microsoft Research, New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 536 (113,269)
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Viral marketing, word-of-mouth marketing, target marketing

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Confidence Bands for Roc Curves

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Confidence Bands for Roc Curves

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/14116
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 09 Oct 2008
Sofus Macskassy and Foster Provost
Fetch Technologies, Inc and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Confidence Bands for Roc Curves

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/14153
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 13 Oct 2008
Sofus Macskassy, Foster Provost and Michael L. Littman
Fetch Technologies, Inc, New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Who's Watching TV?

NYU Working Paper No. ;CBA-16-02
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 04 Feb 2020
Jessica Clark, Jean Francois Paiement and Foster Provost
New York University, Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences, Students, AT&T - Research Department and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Audience Selection for On-Line Brand Advertising: Privacy-Friendly Social Network Targeting

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 25 May 2011
Foster Provost, Brian Dalessandro, Rod Hook, Xiaohan Zhang and Alan Murray
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 417 (152,965)
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on-line advertising, predictive modeling, social

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Causal Classification: Treatment Effect Estimation vs. Outcome Prediction

Journal of Machine Learning Research
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 26 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2022
Carlos Fernández-Loría and Foster Provost
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
Downloads 414 (154,214)
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Bias-variance tradeoff, causal inference, treatment assignment

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Cost-Effective Quality Assurance in Crowd Labeling

Information Systems Research, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 137-158
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 13 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2018
Jing Wang, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis and Foster Provost
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
Downloads 394 (163,055)
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crowd labeling, quality assurance, dynamic label allocation, worker performance metric

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Quality-Based Pricing for Crowdsourced Workers

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/31833
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 24 Jun 2013
Jing Wang, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis and Foster Provost
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Dimensionality Reduction Via Matrix Factorization for Predictive Modeling from Large, Sparse Behavioral Data

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/33970
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 28 May 2015
Jessica Clark and Foster Provost
New York University, Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences, Students and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Tree Induction Vs. Logistic Regression: a Learning-Curve Analysis

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Tree Induction Vs. Logistic Regression: a Learning-Curve Analysis

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/14161
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 13 Oct 2008
Claudia Perlich, Foster Provost and Jeffrey S. Simonoff
IBM Corporation - Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Downloads 186 (350,496)
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Tree Induction Vs Logistic Regression: A Learning Curve Analysis

NYU Working Paper No. SOR-2001-6
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 03 Nov 2008
Claudia Perlich, Foster Provost and Jeffrey S. Simonoff
IBM Corporation - Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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Social Network Collaborative Filtering

NYU Working Paper No. CEDER-08-08
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 19 Nov 2008
Rong Zheng, Dennis Wilkinson and Foster Provost
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Business School - Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management, affiliation not provided to SSRN and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
Downloads 293 (225,385)
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Repeated Labeling Using Multiple Noisy Labelers

NYU Working Paper No. CEDER-10-03
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 06 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2012
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Foster Provost, Victor Sheng and Jing Wang
New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 289 (228,620)
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active learning, data selection, data preprocessing, classification, crowdsourcing, mechanical turk, noisy data

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Intelligent Assistance for the Data Mining Process: an Ontology-Based Approach

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Intelligent Assistance for the Data Mining Process: an Ontology-Based Approach

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/14156
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 13 Oct 2008
Abraham Bernstein, Shawndra Hill and Foster Provost
University of Zurich - Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group, Microsoft Research and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
Downloads 158 (405,657)

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Data mining, data-mining process, intelligent assistants, knowledge discovery

Intelligent Assistance for the Data Mining Process: an Ontology-Based Approach

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/14146
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 13 Oct 2008
Abraham Bernstein, Shawndra Hill and Foster Provost
University of Zurich - Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group, Microsoft Research and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Data mining, data-mining process, intelligent assistants, knowledge discovery

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Wallenius Naive Bayes

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/33545
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 21 Dec 2013
Enric Junqué de Fortuny, David Martens and Foster Provost
Independent, University of Antwerp and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Active Learning for Decision Making

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/14120
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 09 Oct 2008
Maytal Saar-Tsechansky and Foster Provost
Univesity of Texas at Austin and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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active learning, information acquisition, decision-making, class probability estimation, cost-sensitive learning

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Geo-Social Targeting for Privacy-Friendly Mobile Advertising: Position Paper

NYU Working Paper No. CEDER-11-06A
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 20 Oct 2011
Foster Provost
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Enhancing Transparency and Control When Drawing Data-Driven Inferences About Individuals

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/33969
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 28 May 2015
Daizhuo Chen, Samuel P. Fraiberger, Robert Moakler and Foster Provost
Columbia University, Computer Science, Meta and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
Downloads 218 (302,943)
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Get Another Label? Improving Data Quality and Data Mining Using Multiple, Noisy Labelers

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/25882
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 09 Oct 2008
Victor Sheng, Foster Provost and Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis
affiliation not provided to SSRN, New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Downloads 211 (312,514)
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Discovering Knowledge from Relational Data Extracted from Business News

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Discovering Knowledge from Relational Data Extracted from Business News

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/14157
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 13 Oct 2008
Abraham Bernstein, Scott Clearwater, Shawndra Hill, Claudia Perlich and Foster Provost
University of Zurich - Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Microsoft Research, IBM Corporation - Thomas J. Watson Research Center and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Discovering Knowledge from Relational Data Extracted from Business News

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/14147
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 13 Oct 2008
Abraham Bernstein, Scott Clearwater, Shawndra Hill, Claudia Perlich and Foster Provost
University of Zurich - Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Microsoft Research, IBM Corporation - Thomas J. Watson Research Center and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Matrix-Factorization-Based Dimensionality Reduction in the Predictive Modeling Process: A Design Science Perspective

NYU Working Paper No.; CBA-16-01
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 30 Sep 2016
Jessica Clark and Foster Provost
New York University, Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences, Students and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
Downloads 192 (341,243)
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Discovering Interesting Patterns for Investment Decision Making with Glower C - a Genetic Learner Overlaid with Entropy Reduction

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/14171
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 13 Oct 2008
Vasant Dhar, Dashin Chou and Foster Provost
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, affiliation not provided to SSRN and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
Downloads 181 (360,111)
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Roc Confidence Bands: An Empirical Study

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/14107
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 09 Oct 2008
Sofus Mcskassy, Foster Provost and Saharon Rosset
affiliation not provided to SSRN, New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 160 (401,486)

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An Intelligent Assistant for the Knowledge Discovery Process

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/14155
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 13 Oct 2008
Abraham Bernstein and Foster Provost
University of Zurich - Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Active Feature-Value Acquisition

McCombs Research Paper Series No. IROM-08-06
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 16 Nov 2006
Maytal Saar-Tsechansky, Prem melville and Foster Provost
University of Texas at Austin, IBM Research and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
Downloads 135 (461,349)
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Information acquistion, predicitve modeling

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Active Sampling for Class Probability Estimation and Ranking

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/14165
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 13 Oct 2008
Maytal Saar-Tsechansky and Foster Provost
New York University (NYU) and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
Downloads 86 (637,868)
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active learning, class probability estimation, cost-sensitive learning

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Classification in Networked Data: a Toolkit and a Univariate Case Study

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/14122
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 Oct 2008
Sofus Macskassy and Foster Provost
Fetch Technologies, Inc and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
Downloads 81 (660,874)
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relational learning, network learning, collective inference, collective classification, networked data

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The Relational Vector-Space Model

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/14130
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 13 Oct 2008
Abraham Bernstein, Scott Clearwater and Foster Provost
University of Zurich - Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group, affiliation not provided to SSRN and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Relational Data Mining, Vector-space models, lndustry Classification

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Variance-Based Active Learning

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/14167
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 13 Oct 2008
Maytal Saar-Tsechansky and Foster Provost
New York University (NYU) and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Aggregation-Based Feature Invention and Relational

NYU Working Paper No. IS-03-03
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 13 Oct 2008
Claudia Perlich and Foster Provost
IBM Corporation - Thomas J. Watson Research Center and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
Downloads 63 (759,243)

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Relational Learning, Aggregation, Feature Invention

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Acora: Distribution-Based Aggregation for Relational Learning from Identifier Attributes

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/14118
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 09 Oct 2008
Claudia Perlich and Foster Provost
IBM Corporation - Thomas J. Watson Research Center and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
Downloads 56 (806,166)

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Simple Models and Classification in Networked Data

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/14117
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 09 Oct 2008
Sofus Macskassy and Foster Provost
Fetch Technologies, Inc and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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Estimating Audience Interest Distribution Based on Audience Web Behavior

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/31830
Posted: 21 Feb 2013
Xiaohan Zhang, Foster Provost and Tsemekhman Kiril
New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences, New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Online Active Inference and Learning

NYU Working Paper No. CEDER-11-02
Posted: 30 Mar 2011
Josh Attenberg and Foster Provost
affiliation not provided to SSRN and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences

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Explaining Documents' Classifications

NYU Working Paper No. CEDER-11-01
Posted: 17 Mar 2011
David Martens and Foster Provost
University of Antwerp and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences

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