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Internet advertisers (buyers) repeatedly procure ad impressions from ad platforms (sellers) with the aim to maximize total conversion (i.e. ad value) while respecting both budget and return-on-investment (ROI) constraints for efficient…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Negin Golrezaei , Patrick Jaillet , Jason Cheuk Nam Liang , Vahab Mirrokni

We study the knapsack problem with group fairness constraints. The input of the problem consists of a knapsack of bounded capacity and a set of items, each item belongs to a particular category and has and associated weight and value. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Deval Patel , Arindam Khan , Anand Louis

A seller offers a buyer a schedule of transfers and associated product qualities. After observing this schedule, the buyer chooses a flexible costly signal about his type. We show it is without loss to focus on a class of mechanisms that…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-02-20 Jeffrey Mensch , Doron Ravid

We study the online learning problem of a bidder who participates in repeated auctions. With the goal of maximizing his T-period payoff, the bidder determines the optimal allocation of his budget among his bids for $K$ goods at each period.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Sevi Baltaoglu , Lang Tong , Qing Zhao

We consider a retailer selling a single product with limited on-hand inventory over a finite selling season. Customer demand arrives according to a Poisson process, the rate of which is influenced by a single action taken by the retailer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-28 Zizhuo Wang , Shiming Deng , Yinyu Ye

This paper studies the multi-item newsvendor problem with a constrained budget and information about demand limited to its range, mean and mean absolute deviation. We consider a minimax model that determines order quantities by minimizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Guus Boonstra , Wouter J. E. C. van Eekelen , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden

Pricing algorithms have demonstrated the capability to learn tacit collusion that is largely unaddressed by current regulations. Their increasing use in markets, including oligopolistic industries with a history of collusion, calls for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Paul Friedrich , Barna Pásztor , Giorgia Ramponi

In settings where full incentive-compatibility is not available, such as core-constraint combinatorial auctions and budget-balanced combinatorial exchanges, we may wish to design mechanisms that are as incentive-compatible as possible. This…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Benjamin Lubin

We study a class of procurement auctions with a budget constraint, where an auctioneer is interested in buying resources or services from a set of agents. Ideally, the auctioneer would like to select a subset of the resources so as to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Georgios Amanatidis , Georgios Birmpas , Evangelos Markakis

Consider a market of competing model providers selling query access to models with varying costs and capabilities. Customers submit problem instances and are willing to pay up to a budget for a verifiable solution. An arbitrageur…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Ricardo Olmedo , Bernhard Schölkopf , Moritz Hardt

The adversarial Bandit with Knapsack problem is a multi-armed bandits problem with budget constraints and adversarial rewards and costs. In each round, a learner selects an action to take and observes the reward and cost of the selected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Mark Braverman , Jingyi Liu , Jieming Mao , Jon Schneider , Eric Xue

This paper studies an open question in the warehouse problem where a merchant trading a commodity tries to find an optimal inventory-trading policy to decide on purchase and sale quantities during a fixed time horizon in order to maximize…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Ishan Bansal , Oktay Günlük

In markets with budget-constrained buyers, competitive equilibria need not be efficient in the utilitarian sense, or maximise the seller's revenue. We consider a setting with multiple divisible goods. Competitive equilibrium outcomes, and…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-04-09 Simon Finster , Paul W. Goldberg , Edwin Lock

This work proposes an efficient parallel algorithm for non-monotone submodular maximization under a knapsack constraint problem over the ground set of size $n$. Our algorithm improves the best approximation factor of the existing parallel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Tan D. Tran , Canh V. Pham , Dung T. K. Ha , Phuong N. H. Pham

Motivated by the dynamic assortment offerings and item pricings occurring in e-commerce, we study a general problem of allocating finite inventories to heterogeneous customers arriving sequentially. We analyze this problem under the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Will Ma , David Simchi-Levi

We study different online optimization problems in the random-order model. There is a finite set of bins with known capacity and a finite set of items arriving in a random order. Upon arrival of an item, its size and its value for each of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Max Klimm , Martin Knaack

We study the equilibria of uniform price auctions where many asymmetric bidders have flat demands up to their respective quantity constraints. We present an iterative procedure that systematically finds an equilibrium outcome as well as an…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-04-09 Kiho Yoon

We study the regulation of a monopolistic firm using a robust-design approach. We solve for the policy that minimizes the regulator's worst-case regret, where the regret is the difference between his complete-information payoff minus his…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2019-10-11 Yingni Guo , Eran Shmaya

We develop an axiomatic theory for Automated Market Makers (AMMs) in local energy sharing markets and analyze the Markov Perfect Equilibrium of the resulting economy with a Mean-Field Game. In this game, heterogeneous prosumers solve a…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-01-01 Michele Fabi , Viraj Nadkarni , Leonardo Leone , Matheus X. V. Ferreira

Posted price mechanisms are prevalent in allocating goods within online marketplaces due to their simplicity and practical efficiency. We explore a fundamental scenario where buyers' valuations are independent and identically distributed,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-26 José Correa , Vasilis Livanos , Dana Pizarro , Victor Verdugo