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In online advertising, the inherent complexity and dynamic nature of advertising environments necessitate the use of auto-bidding services to assist advertisers in bid optimization. This complexity is further compounded in multi-channel…

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We consider the problem of online dynamic mechanism design for sequential auctions in unknown environments, where the underlying market and, thus, the bidders' values vary over time as interactions between the seller and the bidders…

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The design of data markets has gained importance as firms increasingly use machine learning models fueled by externally acquired training data. A key consideration is the externalities firms face when data, though inherently freely…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Anish Agarwal , Munther Dahleh , Thibaut Horel , Maryann Rui

This paper presents a novel generative model, Collaborative Competitive Agents (CCA), which leverages the capabilities of multiple Large Language Models (LLMs) based agents to execute complex tasks. Drawing inspiration from Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Tiankai Hang , Shuyang Gu , Dong Chen , Xin Geng , Baining Guo

Optimizing reranking in advertising feeds is a constrained combinatorial problem, requiring simultaneous maximization of platform revenue and preservation of user experience. Recent generative ranking methods enable listwise optimization…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Chenfei Li , Hantao Zhao , Weixi Yao , Ruiming Huang , Rongrong Lu , Geng Tian , Dongying Kong

This article proposes auction-inspired multi-player generative adversarial networks training, which mitigates the mode collapse problem of GANs. Mode collapse occurs when an over-fitted generator generates a limited range of samples, often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Joo Yong Shim , Jean Seong Bjorn Choe , Jong-Kook Kim

We study revenue optimization learning algorithms for posted-price auctions with strategic buyers. We analyze a very broad family of monotone regret minimization algorithms for this problem, which includes the previously best known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Mehryar Mohri , Andres Muñoz Medina

Cryptocurrency markets present formidable challenges for trading strategy optimization due to extreme volatility, non-stationary dynamics, and complex microstructure patterns that render conventional parameter optimization methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Qiushi Tian , Churong Liang , Kairan Hong , Runnan Li

This paper considers a demand-side aggregation scheme specifically for large numbers of small loads, such as households and small and medium-sized businesses. We introduce a novel auction format, called a staggered clock-proxy auction…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-29 Archie C. Chapman , Gregor Verbic

Decentralized learning enables a group of collaborative agents to learn models using a distributed dataset without the need for a central parameter server. Recently, decentralized learning algorithms have demonstrated state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Yasaman Esfandiari , Sin Yong Tan , Zhanhong Jiang , Aditya Balu , Ethan Herron , Chinmay Hegde , Soumik Sarkar

Online platforms connect users with relevant products and services using ads. A key challenge is that a user's search query often leaves their true intent ambiguous. Typically, platforms passively predict relevance based on available…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Kshipra Bhawalkar , Alexandros Psomas , Di Wang

Auctions play an important role in electronic commerce, and have been used to solve problems in distributed computing. Automated approaches to designing effective auction mechanisms are helpful in reducing the burden of traditional game…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-08 Jinzhong Niu , Kai Cai , Simon Parsons

Online advertising platforms are thriving due to the customizable audiences they offer advertisers. However, recent studies show that advertisements can be discriminatory with respect to the gender or race of the audience that sees the ad,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-23 L. Elisa Celis , Anay Mehrotra , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

Recently, several studies have explored methods for using KG embedding to answer logical queries. These approaches either treat embedding learning and query answering as two separated learning tasks, or fail to deal with the variability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Gengchen Mai , Krzysztof Janowicz , Bo Yan , Rui Zhu , Ling Cai , Ni Lao

Decision making is a challenging task in online recommender systems. The decision maker often needs to choose a contextual item at each step from a set of candidates. Contextual bandit algorithms have been successfully deployed to such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Feiyang Pan , Qingpeng Cai , Pingzhong Tang , Fuzhen Zhuang , Qing He

Real-time bidding (RTB) systems, which utilize auctions to allocate user impressions to competing advertisers, continue to enjoy success in digital advertising. Assessing the effectiveness of such advertising remains a challenge in research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Caio Waisman , Harikesh S. Nair , Carlos Carrion

Algorithms based on combinatorial auctions show significant potential regarding their application for channel assignment problems in multi-connectivity ultra-reliable wireless networks. However the computational effort required by such…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Dávid Csercsik , Eduard Jorswieck

Generative AI has significantly changed industries by enabling text-driven image generation, yet challenges remain in achieving high-resolution outputs that align with fine-grained user preferences. Consequently, multi-round interactions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Kun Li , Jianhui Wang , Yangfan He , Xinyuan Song , Ruoyu Wang , Hongyang He , Wenxin Zhang , Jiaqi Chen , Keqin Li , Sida Li , Miao Zhang , Tianyu Shi , Xueqian Wang

In recent years, a new branch of auction models called diffusion auction has extended the traditional auction into social network scenarios. The diffusion auction models the auction as a networked market whose nodes are potential customers…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Yuhang Guo , Dong Hao

Advertisers in online ad auctions are increasingly using auto-bidding mechanisms to bid into auctions instead of directly bidding their value manually. One prominent auto-bidding format is the target cost-per-acquisition (tCPA) which…

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