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We study the problem of online learning in competitive settings in the context of two-sided matching markets. In particular, one side of the market, the agents, must learn about their preferences over the other side, the firms, through…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Chinmay Maheshwari , Eric Mazumdar , Shankar Sastry

An informed seller designs a dynamic mechanism to sell an experience good. The seller has partial information about the product match, which affects the buyer's private consumption experience. We characterize equilibrium mechanisms of this…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-06-24 Tan Gan , Nicholas Wu

Large-scale online recommendation systems must facilitate the allocation of a limited number of items among competing users while learning their preferences from user feedback. As a principled way of incorporating market constraints and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Yigit Efe Erginbas , Soham Phade , Kannan Ramchandran

We study the problem of allocating $T$ sequentially arriving items among $n$ homogeneous agents under the constraint that each agent must receive a pre-specified fraction of all items, with the objective of maximizing the agents' total…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Steven Yin , Shipra Agrawal , Assaf Zeevi

We consider an online version of the well-studied network utility maximization problem, where users arrive one by one and an operator makes irrevocable decisions for each user without knowing the details of future arrivals. We propose a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Ying Cao , Bo Sun , Danny H. K. Tsang

We study an online learning problem on dynamic pricing and resource allocation, where we make joint pricing and inventory decisions to maximize the overall net profit. We consider the stochastic dependence of demands on the price, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jianyu Xu , Xuan Wang , Yu-Xiang Wang , Jiashuo Jiang

Online Resource Allocation addresses the problem of efficiently allocating limited resources to buyers with incomplete knowledge of future requests. In our setting, buyers arrive sequentially requesting a set of items, each with a value…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Dimitris Fotakis , Charalampos Platanos , Thanos Tolias

Though competitive analysis is often a very good tool for the analysis of online algorithms, sometimes it does not give any insight and sometimes it gives counter-intuitive results. Much work has gone into exploring other performance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Joan Boyar , Leah Epstein , Lene M. Favrholdt , Kim S. Larsen , Asaf Levin

We consider a two-way trading problem, where investors buy and sell a stock whose price moves within a certain range. Naturally they want to maximize their profit. Investors can perform up to $k$ trades, where each trade must involve the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Stanley P. Y. Fung

We study the two-sided stable matching problem with one-sided uncertainty for two sets of agents A and B, with equal cardinality. Initially, the preference lists of the agents in A are given but the preferences of the agents in B are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Evripidis Bampis , Konstantinos Dogeas , Thomas Erlebach , Nicole Megow , Jens Schlöter , Amitabh Trehan

This paper studies an online selection problem, where a seller seeks to sequentially sell multiple copies of an item to arriving buyers. We consider an adversarial setting, making no modeling assumptions about buyers' valuations for the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Bo Sun , Hossein Nekouyan Jazi , Xiaoqi Tan , Raouf Boutaba

Posted price mechanisms are prevalent in allocating goods within online marketplaces due to their simplicity and practical efficiency. We explore a fundamental scenario where buyers' valuations are independent and identically distributed,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-26 José Correa , Vasilis Livanos , Dana Pizarro , Victor Verdugo

In this paper, we investigate the online allocation problem of maximizing the overall revenue subject to both lower and upper bound constraints. Compared to the extensively studied online problems with only resource upper bounds, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Qixin Zhang , Wenbing Ye , Zaiyi Chen , Haoyuan Hu , Enhong Chen , Yang Yu

Efficient and truthful mechanisms to price resources on remote servers/machines has been the subject of much work in recent years due to the importance of the cloud market. This paper considers revenue maximization in the online stochastic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Shant Boodaghians , Federico Fusco , Stefano Leonardi , Yishay Mansour , Ruta Mehta

We design online algorithms for the fair allocation of public goods to a set of $N$ agents over a sequence of $T$ rounds and focus on improving their performance using predictions. In the basic model, a public good arrives in each round,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Siddhartha Banerjee , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Safwan Hossain , Billy Jin , Evi Micha , Nisarg Shah

We study truthful mechanisms for welfare maximization in online bipartite matching. In our (multi-parameter) setting, every buyer is associated with a (possibly private) desired set of items, and has a private value for being assigned an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Michal Feldman , Federico Fusco , Stefano Leonardi , Simon Mauras , Rebecca Reiffenhäuser

In online bilateral trade, a platform posts prices to incoming pairs of buyers and sellers that have private valuations for a certain good. If the price is lower than the buyers' valuation and higher than the sellers' valuation, then a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-24 François Bachoc , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Tommaso Cesari , Roberto Colomboni

We propose a new efficient online algorithm to learn the parameters governing the purchasing behavior of a utility maximizing buyer, who responds to prices, in a repeated interaction setting. The key feature of our algorithm is that it can…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-07 Debjyoti Saharoy , Theja Tulabandhula

Sponsored search mechanisms have drawn much attention from both academic community and industry in recent years since the seminal papers of [13] and [14]. However, most of the existing literature concentrates on the mechanism design and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-01 Jian Liu , Dah Ming Chiu

Cross-group externalities and network effects in two-sided platform markets shape market structure and competition policy, and are the subject of extensive study. Less understood are the within-group externalities that arise when the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-11-10 Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey