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C2:Cross learning module enhanced decision transformer with Constraint-aware loss for auto-bidding

Machine Learning 2026-01-30 v2 Computer Science and Game Theory

Abstract

Decision Transformer (DT) shows promise for generative auto-bidding by capturing temporal dependencies, but suffers from two critical limitations: insufficient cross-correlation modeling among state, action, and return-to-go (RTG) sequences, and indiscriminate learning of optimal/suboptimal behaviors. To address these, we propose C2, a novel framework enhancing DT with two core innovations: (1) a Cross Learning Block (CLB) via cross-attention to strengthen inter-sequence correlation modeling; (2) a Constraint-aware Loss (CL) incorporating budget and Cost-Per-Acquisition (CPA) constraints for selective learning of optimal trajectories. Extensive offline evaluations on the AuctionNet dataset demonstrate consistent performance gains (up to 3.2% over state-of-the-art method) across diverse budget settings; ablation studies verify the complementary synergy of CLB and CL, confirming C2's superiority in auto-bidding. The code for reproducing our results is available at: https://github.com/Dingjinren/C2.

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@article{arxiv.2601.20257,
  title  = {C2:Cross learning module enhanced decision transformer with Constraint-aware loss for auto-bidding},
  author = {Jinren Ding and Xuejian Xu and Shen Jiang and Zhitong Hao and Jinhui Yang and Peng Jiang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.20257},
  year   = {2026}
}
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