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Finding optimal bidding strategies for generation units in electricity markets would result in higher profit. However, it is a challenging problem due to the system uncertainty which is due to the unknown other generation units' strategies.…

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The architecture of a deep neural network is defined explicitly in terms of the number of layers, the width of each layer and the general network topology. Existing optimisation frameworks neglect this information in favour of implicit…

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In this paper, we propose a novel distributed algorithm for consensus optimization over networks and a robust extension tailored to deal with asynchronous agents and packet losses. Indeed, to robustly achieve dynamic consensus on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Guido Carnevale , Nicola Bastianello , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Ruggero Carli

We introduce a new numerical framework to learn optimal bidding strategies in repeated auctions when the seller uses past bids to optimize her mechanism. Crucially, we do not assume that the bidders know what optimization mechanism is used…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Thomas Nedelec , Jules Baudet , Vianney Perchet , Noureddine El Karoui

Multi-agent distributed consensus optimization problems arise in many signal processing applications. Recently, the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has been used for solving this family of problems. ADMM based distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Tsung-Hui Chang , Mingyi Hong , Xiangfeng Wang

Decision Transformer (DT) shows promise for generative auto-bidding by capturing temporal dependencies, but suffers from two critical limitations: insufficient cross-correlation modeling among state, action, and return-to-go (RTG)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Jinren Ding , Xuejian Xu , Shen Jiang , Zhitong Hao , Jinhui Yang , Peng Jiang

Auctions for perishable goods such as internet ad inventory need to make real-time allocation and pricing decisions as the supply of the good arrives in an online manner, without knowing the entire supply in advance. These allocation and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-05 Gagan Goel , Vahab Mirrokni , Renato Paes Leme

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…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Xinxin Yang , Yangyang Tang , Yikun Zhou , Yaolei Liu , Yun Li , Bo Yang

This paper presents HUANet, a constrained deep neural network architecture that unrolls the iterations of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) into a trainable neural network for solving constrained convex optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Trinh Tran , Binh Nguyen , Truong X. Nghiem

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

Learning to bid in repeated first-price auctions is a fundamental problem at the interface of game theory and machine learning, which has seen a recent surge in interest due to the transition of display advertising to first-price auctions.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Rachitesh Kumar , Jon Schneider , Balasubramanian Sivan

Latency is inherent in almost all real-world networked applications. In this paper, we propose a distributed allocation strategy over multi-agent networks with delayed communications. The state of each agent (or node) represents its share…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous

Semantic communication (SemCom) and edge computing are two disruptive solutions to address emerging requirements of huge data communication, bandwidth efficiency and low latency data processing in Metaverse. However, edge computing…

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Traditional approaches in offline reinforcement learning aim to learn the optimal policy that maximizes the cumulative reward, also known as return. It is increasingly important to adjust the performance of AI agents to meet human…

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We study a seller who sells a single good to multiple bidders with uncertainty over the joint distribution of bidders' valuations, as well as bidders' higher-order beliefs about their opponents. The seller only knows the (possibly…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-02-16 Ethan Che

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

In light of the growing market of Ad Exchanges for the real-time sale of advertising slots, publishers face new challenges in choosing between the allocation of contract-based reservation ads and spot market ads. In this setting, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-25 Santiago Balseiro , Jon Feldman , Vahab Mirrokni , S. Muthukrishnan

In the last decade, we have witnessed the introduction of several novel deep neural network (DNN) architectures exhibiting ever-increasing performance across diverse tasks. Explaining the upward trend of their performance, however, remains…

We present a new approach to machine learning-powered combinatorial auctions, which is based on the principles of Differential Privacy. Our methodology guarantees that the auction mechanism is truthful, meaning that rational bidders have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Arash Jamshidi , Seyed Mohammad Hosseini , Seyed Mahdi Noormousavi , Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani

Auto-bidding services optimize real-time bidding strategies for advertisers under key performance indicator (KPI) constraints such as target return on investment and budget. However, uncertainties such as model prediction errors and…

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