What features and feature selection would you use?

Q: What features and feature selection would you use?

This question evaluates feature engineering, feature selection, and production-aware machine learning system design skills for ranking shop ads, within the Machine Learning domain for a Data Scientist role.

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You are building an ML system to rank/promote shop ads in an e-commerce feed/search page. At serving time, the system may score candidate shop ads for a given user and context.

Assume you have access to:

User events (impressions, clicks, purchases, shop follows)
Shop metadata (category, price bands, inventory signals)
Query/context (search query, time, device)
Ad/auction signals (bid, budget pacing)

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If you were to build the shop-ads ranking model , what feature families would you use? (Give examples.)
You have “a ton” of candidate features. How would you identify which ones are useful ?
- Include at least one offline approach and one online /production-safe approach.
If you were not allowed to use a model-based importance method (e.g., no SHAP/GBDT gain/permutation importance), how would you still find the key useful features?
Call out common pitfalls: leakage, feedback loops, cold start, and feature drift.

What features and feature selection would you use?

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