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We consider an application of multi-armed bandits to internet advertising (specifically, to dynamic ad allocation in the pay-per-click model, with uncertainty on the click probabilities). We focus on an important practical issue that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Aleksandrs Slivkins

Finding the optimal assignment in budget-constrained auctions is a combinatorial optimization problem with many important applications, a notable example being the sale of advertisement space by search engines (in this context the problem…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-13 F. Altarelli , A. Braunstein , J. Realpe-Gomez , R. Zecchina

We consider a practically motivated variant of the canonical online fair allocation problem: a decision-maker has a budget of perishable resources to allocate over a fixed number of rounds. Each round sees a random number of arrivals, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Siddhartha Banerjee , Chamsi Hssaine , Sean R. Sinclair

We study the problem of an online advertising system that wants to optimally spend an advertiser's given budget for a campaign across multiple platforms, without knowing the value for showing an ad to the users on those platforms. We model…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Vashist Avadhanula , Riccardo Colini-Baldeschi , Stefano Leonardi , Karthik Abinav Sankararaman , Okke Schrijvers

In today's online advertising markets, a crucial requirement for an advertiser is to control her total expenditure within a time horizon under some budget. Among various budget control methods, throttling has emerged as a popular choice,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Zhaohua Chen , Chang Wang , Qian Wang , Yuqi Pan , Zhuming Shi , Zheng Cai , Yukun Ren , Zhihua Zhu , Xiaotie Deng

Inspired by sequential budgeted allocation problems, we study the online matching problem with budget refills. In this context, we consider an online bipartite graph $G=(U,V,E)$, where the nodes in $V$ are discovered sequentially and nodes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Maria Cherifa , Clément Calauzènes , Vianney Perchet

We consider an online matching problem with concave returns. This problem is a significant generalization of the Adwords allocation problem and has vast applications in online advertising. In this problem, a sequence of items arrive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Xiao Alison Chen , Zizhuo Wang

Budget management strategies in repeated auctions have received growing attention in online advertising markets. However, previous work on budget management in online bidding mainly focused on second-price auctions. The rapid shift from…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Qian Wang , Zongjun Yang , Xiaotie Deng , Yuqing Kong

We consider the maximum bipartite matching problem in stochastic settings, namely the query-commit and price-of-information models. In the query-commit model, an edge e independently exists with probability $p_e$. We can query whether an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Buddhima Gamlath , Sagar Kale , Ola Svensson

Most recent papers addressing the algorithmic problem of allocating advertisement space for keywords in sponsored search auctions assume that pricing is done via a first-price auction, which does not realistically model the Generalized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-08-21 Yossi Azar , Benjamin Birnbaum , Anna R. Karlin , C. Thach Nguyen

We study a game between autobidding algorithms that compete in an online advertising platform. Each autobidder is tasked with maximizing its advertiser's total value over multiple rounds of a repeated auction, subject to budget and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Brendan Lucier , Sarath Pattathil , Aleksandrs Slivkins , Mengxiao Zhang

In the setting of online algorithms, the input is initially not present but rather arrive one-by-one over time and after each input, the algorithm has to make a decision. Depending on the formulation of the problem, the algorithm might be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Mustafa Safa Ozdayi

Advertisers increasingly use automated bidding to optimize their ad campaigns on online advertising platforms. Autobidding optimizes an advertiser's objective subject to various constraints, e.g. average ROI and budget constraints. In this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Gagan Aggarwal , Giannis Fikioris , Mingfei Zhao

In online ad markets, a rising number of advertisers are employing bidding agencies to participate in ad auctions. These agencies are specialized in designing online algorithms and bidding on behalf of their clients. Typically, an agency…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yurong Chen , Qian Wang , Zhijian Duan , Haoran Sun , Zhaohua Chen , Xiang Yan , Xiaotie Deng

Automated bidding to optimize online advertising with various constraints, e.g. ROI constraints and budget constraints, is widely adopted by advertisers. A key challenge lies in designing algorithms for non-truthful mechanisms with ROI…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yuan Deng , Yilin Li , Wei Tang , Hanrui Zhang

Ad auctions in sponsored search support ``broad match'' that allows an advertiser to target a large number of queries while bidding only on a limited number. While giving more expressiveness to advertisers, this feature makes it challenging…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-26 Eyal Even-dar , Yishay Mansour , Vahab Mirrokni , S. Muthukrishnan , Uri Nadav

Internet advertisers (buyers) repeatedly procure ad impressions from ad platforms (sellers) with the aim to maximize total conversion (i.e. ad value) while respecting both budget and return-on-investment (ROI) constraints for efficient…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Negin Golrezaei , Patrick Jaillet , Jason Cheuk Nam Liang , Vahab Mirrokni

Augmenting the input of algorithms with predictions is an algorithm design paradigm that suggests leveraging a (possibly erroneous) prediction to improve worst-case performance guarantees when the prediction is perfect (consistency), while…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Georgios Amanatidis , Evangelos Markakis , Christodoulos Santorinaios , Guido Schäfer , Panagiotis Tsamopoulos , Artem Tsikiridis

This research focuses on the bid optimization problem in the real-time bidding setting for online display advertisements, where an advertiser, or the advertiser's agent, has access to the features of the website visitor and the type of ad…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Rui Fan , Erick Delage

We improve the best known competitive ratio (from 1/4 to 1/2), for the online multi-unit allocation problem, where the objective is to maximize the single-price revenue. Moreover, the competitive ratio of our algorithm tends to 1, as the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-13 Sourav Chakraborty , Nikhil Devanur