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Traditional auction theory posits that bid value exhibits a positive correlation with the probability of securing the auctioned object in ascending auctions. However, under uncertainty and incomplete information, as is characteristic in…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-12-19 Dipankar Das

Shilling is the use of artificial bids to make competition appear stronger and push prices upward. We study repeated first-price auctions in which shilling affects feedback but not allocation: the learner wins or loses against the real…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-22 Luigi Foscari , Matilde Tullii , Vianney Perchet

First-price auctions have very recently swept the online advertising industry, replacing second-price auctions as the predominant auction mechanism on many platforms. This shift has brought forth important challenges for a bidder: how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yanjun Han , Zhengyuan Zhou , Aaron Flores , Erik Ordentlich , Tsachy Weissman

We study the problem of auction design for advertising platforms that face strategic advertisers who are bidding across platforms. Each advertiser's goal is to maximize their total value or conversions while satisfying some constraint(s)…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Gagan Aggarwal , Andres Perlroth , Ariel Schvartzman , Mingfei Zhao

Modern ad auctions allow advertisers to target more specific segments of the user population. Unfortunately, this is not always in the best interest of the ad platform. In this paper, we examine the following basic question in the context…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Ashwinkumar Badanidiyuru , Kshipra Bhawalkar , Haifeng Xu

Real-time bidding has emerged as an effective online advertising technique. With real-time bidding, advertisers can position ads per impression, enabling them to optimise ad campaigns by targeting specific audiences in real-time. This paper…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Parikshit Sharma

Online auction scenarios, such as bidding searches on advertising platforms, often require bidders to participate repeatedly in auctions for identical or similar items. Most previous studies have only considered the process by which the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Yudong Hu , Congying Han , Tiande Guo , Hao Xiao

We study auction design in a setting where agents can communicate over a censorship-resistant broadcast channel like the ones we can implement over a public blockchain. We seek to design credible, strategyproof auctions in a model that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Tarun Chitra , Matheus V. X. Ferreira , Kshitij Kulkarni

In this work we introduce a new class of mechanisms composed of a traditional Generalized Second Price (GSP) auction and a fair division scheme, in order to achieve some desired level of fairness between groups of Bayesian strategic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Georgios Birmpas , Andrea Celli , Riccardo Colini-Baldeschi , Stefano Leonardi

The standard framework of online bidding algorithm design assumes that the seller commits himself to faithfully implementing the rules of the adopted auction. However, the seller may attempt to cheat in execution to increase his revenue if…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Qian Wang , Xuanzhi Xia , Zongjun Yang , Xiaotie Deng , Yuqing Kong , Zhilin Zhang , Liang Wang , Chuan Yu , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng

We propose an auction for online advertising where each ad occupies either one square or two horizontally-adjacent squares of a grid of squares. Our primary application are ads for products shown on retail websites such as Instacart or…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Jonathan Gu , David Pal , Kevin Ryan

Online auction has been very widespread in the recent years. Platform administrators are working hard to refine their auction mechanisms that will generate high profits while maintaining a fair resource allocation. With the advancement of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Zhanhao Zhang

In this paper, spectrum access in cognitive radio networks is modeled as a repeated auction game subject to monitoring and entry costs. For secondary users, sensing costs are incurred as the result of primary users' activity. Furthermore,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-14 Zhu Han , Rong Zheng , Vincent H. Poor

As commerce shifts to digital marketplaces, platforms increasingly monetize traffic through Sponsored Shopping auctions. Unlike classic ``Sponsored Search", where an advertiser typically bids for a single link, these settings involve…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Paul Dütting , Yuhao Li , Renato Paes Leme , Kelly Spendlove , Yifeng Teng

The generalized second price (GSP) auction has served as the core selling mechanism for sponsored search ads for over a decade. However, recent trends expanding the set of allowed ad formats---to include a variety of sizes, decorations, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Ruggiero Cavallo , Prabhakar Krishnamurthy , Maxim Sviridenko , Christopher A. Wilkens

With the increasing use of auctions in online advertising, there has been a large effort to study seller revenue maximization, following Myerson's seminal work, both theoretically and practically. We take the point of view of the buyer in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Marc Abeille , Clément Calauzènes , Noureddine El Karoui , Thomas Nedelec , Vianney Perchet

Auctions are important mechanisms extensively implemented in various markets, e.g., search engines' keyword auctions, antique auctions, etc. Finding an optimal auction mechanism is extremely difficult due to the constraints of imperfect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Jiayin Liu , Chenglong Zhang

Online bidding and auction are crucial aspects of the online advertising industry. Conventionally, there is only one slot for ad display and most current studies focus on it. Nowadays, multi-slot display advertising is gradually becoming…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Zhen Gong , Lvyin Niu , Yang Zhao , Miao Xu , Zhenzhe Zheng , Haoqi Zhang , Zhilin Zhang , Fan Wu , Rongquan Bai , Chuan Yu , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng

We develop a novel optimization model to maximize the profit of a Demand-Side Platform (DSP) while ensuring that the budget utilization preferences of the DSP's advertiser clients are adequately met. Our model is highly flexible and can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-31 Alfonso Lobos , Paul Grigas , Zheng Wen , Kuang-chih Lee

We consider an online ad network problem in which an ad exchange auctions ad slots and intermediaries called demand side platforms (DSPs) buy these ad slots for their clients (advertisers). An intermediary represents multiple advertisers.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Rahul Meshram , Kesav Kaza