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The classic result of Bulow and Klemperer \cite{BK96} says that in a single-item auction recruiting one more bidder and running the Vickrey auction achieves a higher revenue than the optimal auction's revenue on the original set of bidders,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-07 Balasubramanian Sivan , Vasilis Syrgkanis

With the emerging technologies of Internet of Things (IOTs), the capabilities of mobile devices have increased tremendously. However, in the big data era, to complete tasks on one device is still challenging. As an emerging technology,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Yutong Zhai , Liusheng Huang , Long Chen , Ning Xiao , Yangyang Geng

Combinatorial auctions (CA) are a well-studied area in algorithmic mechanism design. However, contrary to the standard model, empirical studies suggest that a bidder's valuation often does not depend solely on the goods assigned to him. For…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Yun Kuen Cheung , Monika Henzinger , Martin Hoefer , Martin Starnberger

Online advertising has become a core revenue driver for the internet industry, with ad auctions playing a crucial role in ensuring platform revenue and advertiser incentives. Traditional auction mechanisms, like GSP, rely on the independent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ruitao Zhu , Yangsu Liu , Dagui Chen , Zhenjia Ma , Chufeng Shi , Zhenzhe Zheng , Jie Zhang , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng , Fan Wu

We present our results on Uniform Price Auctions, one of the standard sealed-bid multi-unit auction formats, for selling multiple identical units of a single good to multi-demand bidders. Contrary to the truthful and economically efficient…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-20 Evangelos Markakis , Orestis Telelis

Auctions are becoming an increasingly popular method for transacting business, especially over the Internet. This article presents a general approach to building autonomous bidding agents to bid in multiple simultaneous auctions for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-28 J. A. Csirik , M. L. Littman , D. McAllester , R. E. Schapire , P. Stone

With spectrum auctions as our prime motivation, in this paper we analyze combinatorial auctions where agents' valuations exhibit complementarities. Assuming that the agents only value bundles of size at most $k$ and also assuming that we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Dengwang Tang , Vijay Subramanian

Simple Clock Auctions (SCA) are a mechanism commonly used in spectrum auctions to sell lots of frequency bandwidths. We study such an auction with one player having access to perfect information against straightforward bidders. When the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jad Zeroual , Marianne Akian , Aurélien Bechler , Matthieu Chardy , Stéphane Gaubert

In digital goods auctions, there is an auctioneer who sells an item with unlimited supply to a set of potential buyers, and the objective is to design truthful auction to maximize the total profit of the auctioneer. Motivated from an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-27 Nick Gravin , Pinyan Lu

Given a sample of bids from independent auctions, this paper examines the question of inference on auction fundamentals (e.g. valuation distributions, welfare measures) under weak assumptions on information structure. The question is…

Econometrics · Economics 2018-03-20 Vasilis Syrgkanis , Elie Tamer , Juba Ziani

For an artist or a graphic designer, the spatial layout of a scene is a critical design choice. However, existing text-to-image diffusion models provide limited support for incorporating spatial information. This paper introduces Composite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Vikram Jamwal , Ramaneswaran S

This paper considers an electric vehicle charging scheduling setting where vehicle users can reserve charging time in advance at a charging station. In this setting, users are allowed to explicitly express their preferences over different…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Luyang Hou , Chun Wang , Jun Yan

We investigate revenue maximization problems in auctions for dynamic spectrum access. We consider the frequency division and spread spectrum methods of dynamic spectrum sharing. In the frequency division method, a primary spectrum user…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-05-31 Ali Kakhbod , Ashutosh Nayyar , Demosthenis Teneketzis

The combinatorial auction (CA) is an efficient mechanism for resource allocation in different fields, including cloud computing. It can obtain high economic efficiency and user flexibility by allowing bidders to submit bids for combinations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Mengyuan Lee , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher G. Brinton , Guanding Yu , Huaiyu Dai

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

In this paper, we propose a novel sealed-bid auction framework to address the problem of dynamic spectrum allocation in cognitive radio (CR) networks. We design an optimal auction mechanism that maximizes the moderator's expected utility,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-11-16 V. Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla , Swastik Brahma , Pramod K. Varshney

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 the problem of finding the (unique) minimal Walrasian equilibrium price in multi-item, multi-unit auction models: there are multiple indivisible items for sale, with several units of each item, and a bidder may be interested in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Kazuo Murota , Akiyoshi Shioura

Bidding in simultaneous auctions is challenging because an agent's value for a good in one auction may depend on the uncertain outcome of other auctions: the so-called exposure problem. Given the gap in understanding of general simultaneous…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Michael P. Wellman , Eric Sodomka , Amy Greenwald

We propose a novel statistical learning method for multi-item auctions that incorporates credible intervals. Our approach employs nonparametric density estimation to estimate credible intervals for bidder types based on historical data. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jiale Han , Xiaowu Dai