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We present an algorithm guaranteeing dynamic regret bounds for online omniprediction with long term constraints. The goal in this recently introduced problem is for a learner to generate a sequence of predictions which are broadcast to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Yahav Bechavod , Jiuyao Lu , Aaron Roth

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

We study how a budget-constrained bidder should learn to adaptively bid in repeated first-price auctions to maximize her cumulative payoff. This problem arose due to an industry-wide shift from second-price auctions to first-price auctions…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yige Wang , Jiashuo Jiang

We consider the problem of controlling a known linear dynamical system under stochastic noise, adversarially chosen costs, and bandit feedback. Unlike the full feedback setting where the entire cost function is revealed after each decision,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Asaf Cassel , Tomer Koren

This paper studies online nonstochastic control problems with adversarial and static constraints. We propose online nonstochastic control algorithms that achieve both sublinear regret and sublinear adversarial constraint violation while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Xin Liu , Zixian Yang , Lei Ying

When randomness in demand affects the sales of a product, retailers use dynamic pricing strategies to maximize their profits. In this article, we formulate the pricing problem as a continuous-time stochastic optimal control problem and find…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-13 Asbjørn Nilsen Riseth

Data-driven sequential decision has found a wide range of applications in modern operations management, such as dynamic pricing, inventory control, and assortment optimization. Most existing research on data-driven sequential decision…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-01 Yining Wang , Xi Chen , Xiangyu Chang , Dongdong Ge

In feature-based dynamic pricing, a seller sets appropriate prices for a sequence of products (described by feature vectors) on the fly by learning from the binary outcomes of previous sales sessions ("Sold" if valuation $\geq$ price, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Jianyu Xu , Yu-Xiang Wang

We consider dynamic pricing schemes in online settings where selfish agents generate online events. Previous work on online mechanisms has dealt almost entirely with the goal of maximizing social welfare or revenue in an auction settings.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Ilan Reuven Cohen , Alon Eden , Amos Fiat , Łukasz Jeż

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

This paper presents competitive algorithms for a novel class of online optimization problems with memory. We consider a setting where the learner seeks to minimize the sum of a hitting cost and a switching cost that depends on the previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Guanya Shi , Yiheng Lin , Soon-Jo Chung , Yisong Yue , Adam Wierman

Practical online learning tasks are often naturally defined on unconstrained domains, where optimal algorithms for general convex losses are characterized by the notion of comparator adaptivity. In this paper, we design such algorithms in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Zhiyu Zhang , Ashok Cutkosky , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

Online prediction from experts is a fundamental problem in machine learning and several works have studied this problem under privacy constraints. We propose and analyze new algorithms for this problem that improve over the regret bounds of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Hilal Asi , Vitaly Feldman , Tomer Koren , Kunal Talwar

We study a finite-horizon dynamic wholesale-price contract between a manufacturer and a retailer, both of whom observe only sales, rather than the true demand. When the retailer stocks out, unmet demand is unobserved, so both parties update…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Michalis Deligiannis , Marco Scarsini , Xavier Venel

Motivated by online advertising auctions, we consider repeated Vickrey auctions where goods of unknown value are sold sequentially and bidders only learn (potentially noisy) information about a good's value once it is purchased. We adopt an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Jonathan Weed , Vianney Perchet , Philippe Rigollet

We study the dynamic assortment planning problem, where for each arriving customer, the seller offers an assortment of substitutable products and customer makes the purchase among offered products according to an uncapacitated multinomial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-11 Xi Chen , Yining Wang , Yuan Zhou

We consider a firm that sells products over $T$ periods without knowing the demand function. The firm sequentially sets prices to earn revenue and to learn the underlying demand function simultaneously. A natural heuristic for this problem,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-27 Sheng Qiang , Mohsen Bayati

This paper investigates online composite optimization in dynamic environments, where each objective or loss function contains a time-varying nondifferentiable regularizer. To resolve it, an online proximal gradient algorithm is studied for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Ruijie Hou , Xiuxian Li , Yang Shi

In this paper, we consider the classic stochastic (dynamic) knapsack problem, a fundamental mathematical model in revenue management, with general time-varying random demand. Our main goal is to study the optimal policies, which can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-19 Yingdong Lu

We initiate the study of contextual dynamic pricing with a heterogeneous population of buyers, where a seller repeatedly posts prices (over $T$ rounds) that depend on the observable $d$-dimensional context and receives binary purchase…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Thodoris Lykouris , Sloan Nietert , Princewill Okoroafor , Chara Podimata , Julian Zimmert