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We propose a multi-agent distributed reinforcement learning algorithm that balances between potentially conflicting short-term reward and sparse, delayed long-term reward, and learns with partial information in a dynamic environment. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Jing Tan , Ramin Khalili , Holger Karl

This paper studies the incentives of the seller and buyers to shill bid in a single-item auction. An auction is seller identity-compatible if the seller cannot profit from pretending to be one or more bidders via fake identities. It is…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-04 Haoyuan Zeng

Learning to bid in repeated first-price auctions is a fundamental problem at the interface of game theory and machine learning, which has seen a recent surge in interest due to the transition of display advertising to first-price auctions.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Rachitesh Kumar , Jon Schneider , Balasubramanian Sivan

With the advent and increasing consolidation of e-commerce, digital advertising has very recently replaced traditional advertising as the main marketing force in the economy. In the past four years, a particularly important development in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Wei Zhang , Yanjun Han , Zhengyuan Zhou , Aaron Flores , Tsachy Weissman

Recurring auctions are ubiquitous for selling durable assets like artworks and homes, with follow-up auctions held for unsold items. We investigate such auctions theoretically and empirically. Theoretical analysis demonstrates that…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-02-19 Shanglyu Deng , Qiyao Zhou

Real-time bidding (RTB) based display advertising has become one of the key technological advances in computational advertising. RTB enables advertisers to buy individual ad impressions via an auction in real-time and facilitates the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Kan Ren , Weinan Zhang , Ke Chang , Yifei Rong , Yong Yu , Jun Wang

Since 2019, most ad exchanges and sell-side platforms (SSPs), in the online advertising industry, shifted from second to first price auctions. Due to the fundamental difference between these auctions, demand-side platforms (DSPs) have had…

In many repeated auction settings, participants care not only about how frequently they win but also how their winnings are distributed over time. This problem arises in various practical domains where avoiding congested demand is crucial,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Giannis Fikioris , Robert Kleinberg , Yoav Kolumbus , Raunak Kumar , Yishay Mansour , Éva Tardos

We study an online dynamic pricing problem where the potential demand at each time period $t=1,2,\ldots, T$ is stochastic and dependent on the price. However, a perishable inventory is imposed at the beginning of each time $t$, censoring…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-26 Jianyu Xu , Yining Wang , Xi Chen , Yu-Xiang Wang

Motivated by online settings where users can provide explicit feedback about the relevance of products that are sequentially presented to them, we look at the recommendation process as a problem of dynamically optimizing this relevance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-09 Vijay Kamble , Nadia Fawaz , Fernando Silveira

Single-shot auctions are commonly used as a means to sell goods, for example when selling ad space or allocating radio frequencies, however devising mechanisms for auctions with multiple bidders and multiple items can be complicated. It has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Alex Stein , Avi Schwarzschild , Michael Curry , Tom Goldstein , John Dickerson

We consider a dynamic pricing problem under unknown demand models. In this problem a seller offers prices to a stream of customers and observes either success or failure in each sale attempt. The underlying demand model is unknown to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-30 Pouya Tehrani , Yixuan Zhai , Qing Zhao

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

Personalized pricing, which involves tailoring prices based on individual characteristics, is commonly used by firms to implement a consumer-specific pricing policy. In this process, buyers can also strategically manipulate their feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-27 Pangpang Liu , Zhuoran Yang , Zhaoran Wang , Will Wei Sun

Time or money? That is a question! In this paper, we consider this dilemma in the pricing regime, in which we try to find the optimal pricing scheme for identical items with heterogenous time-sensitive buyers. We characterize the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Zhengyang Liu , Liang Shan , Zihe Wang

In a combinatorial auction with item bidding, agents participate in multiple single-item second-price auctions at once. As some items might be substitutes, agents need to strategize in order to maximize their utilities. A number of results…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Paul Dütting , Thomas Kesselheim

We study the problem of a seller dynamically pricing $d$ distinct types of indivisible goods, when faced with the online arrival of unit-demand buyers drawn independently from an unknown distribution. The goods are not in limited supply,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Aaron Roth , Aleksandrs Slivkins , Jonathan Ullman , Zhiwei Steven Wu

We study a setting where agents use no-regret learning algorithms to participate in repeated auctions. \citet{kolumbus2022auctions} showed, rather surprisingly, that when bidders participate in second-price auctions using no-regret bidding…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Gagan Aggarwal , Anupam Gupta , Andres Perlroth , Grigoris Velegkas

In real time electricity markets, the objective of generation companies while bidding is to maximize their profit. The strategies for learning optimal bidding have been formulated through game theoretical approaches and stochastic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Jahnvi Patel , Devika Jay , Balaraman Ravindran , K. Shanti Swarup

In this paper we consider multidimensional mechanism design problem for selling discrete substitutable items to a group of buyers. Previous work on this problem mostly focus on stochastic description of valuations used by the seller.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Maciej Drwal