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This paper explores the potential for leveraging Large Language Models (LLM) in the realm of online advertising systems. We introduce a general framework for LLM advertisement, consisting of modification, bidding, prediction, and auction…

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We study the online minimum cost bipartite perfect matching with delays problem. In this problem, $m$ servers and $m$ requests arrive over time, and an online algorithm can delay the matching between servers and requests by paying the delay…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Tung-Wei Kuo

While marketing budget allocation has been studied for decades in traditional business, nowadays online business brings much more challenges due to the dynamic environment and complex decision-making process. In this paper, we present a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Kui Zhao , Junhao Hua , Ling Yan , Qi Zhang , Huan Xu , Cheng Yang

Calibration is defined as the ratio of the average predicted click rate to the true click rate. The optimization of calibration is essential to many online advertising recommendation systems because it directly affects the downstream bids…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Yewen Fan , Nian Si , Kun Zhang

We initiate the study of online problems with set delay, where the delay cost at any given time is an arbitrary function of the set of pending requests. In particular, we study the online min-cost perfect matching with set delay (MPMD-Set)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Lindsey Deryckere , Seeun William Umboh

We address the challenge of finding algorithms for online allocation (i.e. bipartite matching) using a machine learning approach. In this paper, we focus on the AdWords problem, which is a classical online budgeted matching problem of both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Goran Zuzic , Di Wang , Aranyak Mehta , D. Sivakumar

Today's top advertisers typically manage hundreds of campaigns simultaneously and consistently launch new ones throughout the year. A crucial challenge for marketing managers is determining the optimal allocation of limited budgets across…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-04 Lin Ge , Yang Xu , Jianing Chu , David Cramer , Fuhong Li , Kelly Paulson , Rui Song

We consider online algorithms under both the competitive ratio criteria and the regret minimization one. Our main goal is to build a unified methodology that would be able to guarantee both criteria simultaneously. For a general class of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Amit Daniely , Yishay Mansour

Online allocation problems with resource constraints have a rich history in operations research. In this paper, we introduce the \emph{regularized online allocation problem}, a variant that includes a non-linear regularizer acting on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Santiago Balseiro , Haihao Lu , Vahab Mirrokni

An online truthful budgeted matching problem is considered for a bipartite graph, where the right vertices are available ahead of time, and individual left vertices arrive sequentially. On arrival of a left vertex, its edge utilities (or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Rahul Vaze , Marceau Coupechoux

The data used to pretrain large language models has a decisive impact on a model's downstream performance, which has led to a large body of work on data selection methods that aim to automatically determine the most suitable data to use for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Alon Albalak , Liangming Pan , Colin Raffel , William Yang Wang

We study a fundamental model of online preference aggregation, where an algorithm maintains an ordered list of $n$ elements. An input is a stream of preferred sets $R_1, R_2, \dots, R_t, \dots$. Upon seeing $R_t$ and without knowledge of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Marcin Bienkowski , Marcin Mucha

Can one choose a good Huffman code on the fly, without knowing the underlying distribution? Online Slot Allocation (OSA) models this and similar problems: There are n slots, each with a known cost. There are n items. Requests for items are…

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In the online hypergraph matching problem, hyperedges of size $k$ over a common ground set arrive online in adversarial order. The goal is to obtain a maximum matching (disjoint set of hyperedges). A na\"ive greedy algorithm for this…

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We give an algorithmic framework for minimizing general convex objectives (that are differentiable and monotone non-decreasing) over a set of covering constraints that arrive online. This substantially extends previous work on online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-12 Yossi Azar , Ilan Reuven Cohen , Debmalya Panigrahi

The $b$-matching problem is an allocation problem where the vertices on the left-hand side of a bipartite graph, referred to as servers, may be matched multiple times. In the setting with stochastic rewards, an assignment between an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Susanne Albers , Sebastian Schubert

In display advertising, a small group of sellers and bidders face each other in up to 10 12 auctions a day. In this context, revenue maximisation via monopoly price learning is a high-value problem for sellers. By nature, these auctions are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Lorenzo Croissant , Marc Abeille , Clément Calauzènes

Recent work has addressed the algorithmic problem of allocating advertisement space for keywords in sponsored search auctions so as to maximize revenue, most of which assume that pricing is done via a first-price auction. This does not…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-09-12 Yossi Azar , Benjamin Birnbaum , Anna R. Karlin , C. Thach Nguyen

We consider online algorithms for the {\em page migration problem} that use predictions, potentially imperfect, to improve their performance. The best known online algorithms for this problem, due to Westbrook'94 and Bienkowski et al'17,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Piotr Indyk , Frederik Mallmann-Trenn , Slobodan Mitrović , Ronitt Rubinfeld

In this work we consider a variant of adversarial online learning where in each round one picks $B$ out of $N$ arms and incurs cost equal to the $\textit{minimum}$ of the costs of each arm chosen. We propose an algorithm called Follow the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Damon Falck , Thomas Orton