Generative Optimization for Incentivized Advertising with Global Level Constraints

Abstract

Incentivized advertising allocates monetary or virtual rewards to drive user engagement, where a key challenge is optimizing continuous incentive magnitudes under strict global constraints. This problem is complicated by high-frequency interactions, delayed feedback, and non-Markovian user dynamics such as fatigue, which limit the effectiveness of existing uplift modeling and constrained reinforcement learning approaches. To address these challenges, we propose GOAL, a constraint-aware generative framework that formulates incentive allocation as a conditional sequence generation problem. GOAL directly generates incentive magnitudes conditioned on user histories and system-level global pressure, and integrates a hierarchical causal state encoder to capture both local behavioral dynamics and long-range dependencies. To enable flexible constraint control, we introduce Safe Constrained Policy Optimization (SCPO), which learns a single generative policy that generalizes across a spectrum of ROI constraints without retraining. Experiments on large-scale real-world data and a synthetic fatigue-aware environment show that GOAL improves long-term revenue and user retention while substantially reducing ROI violation rates compared to strong baselines.