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Online auction has been very widespread in the recent years. Platform administrators are working hard to refine their auction mechanisms that will generate high profits while maintaining a fair resource allocation. With the advancement of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Zhanhao Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for automatic algorithm design (AAD). However, existing pipelines remain inefficient. They operate at the granularity of full algorithms, redundantly rewriting recurring…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Maxime Bouscary , Manxi Wu , Saurabh Amin

Auto-bidding is a crucial task in real-time advertising markets, where policies must optimize long-horizon value under delivery constraints (e.g., budget and CPA). Existing methods for auto-bidding rely on compact numerical state…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Guanyu Zhu , Jining Luan , Hanwen Du , Xinyu Fang , Sibo Xu , Ersheng Ni , Hongji Li , Jincheng Fang , Ronghao Chen , Huacan Wang , Xuanqi Lan , Yongxin Ni , Yiqi Sun , Youhua Li

We establish a general optimization framework for the design of automated bidding agent in dynamic online marketplaces. It optimizes solely for the buyer's interest and is agnostic to the auction mechanism imposed by the seller. As a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Yuan Gao , Kaiyu Yang , Yuanlong Chen , Min Liu , Noureddine El Karoui

We perform a simulation-based analysis of keyword auctions modeled as one-shot games of incomplete information to study a series of mechanism design questions. Our first question addresses the degree to which incentive compatibility fails…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

In an era of increasingly capable foundation models, job seekers are turning to generative AI tools to enhance their application materials. However, unequal access to and knowledge about generative AI tools can harm both employers and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Lee Cohen , Jack Hsieh , Connie Hong , Judy Hanwen Shen

As AI systems shift from directing users to content toward consuming it directly, publishers need a new revenue model: charging AI crawlers for content access. This model, called pay-per-crawl, must solve a problem of mechanism selection at…

General Economics · Economics 2026-04-03 Richard Archer , Soheil Ghili , Nima Haghpanah

Complements between goods - where one good takes on added value in the presence of another - have been a thorn in the side of algorithmic mechanism designers. On the one hand, complements are common in the standard motivating applications…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-21 Ittai Abraham , Moshe Babaioff , Shaddin Dughmi , Tim Roughgarden

We consider a setting where goods are allocated to agents by way of an allocation platform (e.g., a matching platform). An ``allocation facilitator'' aims to increase the overall utility/social-good of the allocation by encouraging (some of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yohai Trabelsi , Abhijin Adiga , Yonatan Aumann , Sarit Kraus , S. S. Ravi

We consider the problem of static assortment optimization, where the goal is to find the assortment of size at most $C$ that maximizes revenues. This is a fundamental decision problem in the area of Operations Management. It has been shown…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-08-19 Vivek Farias , Srikanth Jagabathula , Devavrat Shah

For sponsored search auctions, we consider contextual multi-armed bandit problem in the presence of strategic agents. In this setting, at each round, an advertising platform (center) runs an auction to select the best-suited ads relevant to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Kumar Abhishek , Shweta Jain , Sujit Gujar

We consider online procurement auctions, where the agents arrive sequentially, in random order, and have private costs for their services. The buyer aims to maximize a monotone submodular value function for the subset of agents whose…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Andreas Charalampopoulos , Dimitris Fotakis , Panagiotis Patsilinakos , Thanos Tolias

Human cognition is constrained by processing limitations, leading to cognitive overload and inefficiencies in knowledge synthesis and decision-making. Large Language Models (LLMs) present an opportunity for cognitive augmentation, but their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Xiangrong , Zhu , Yuan Xu , Tianjian Liu , Jingwei Sun , Yu Zhang , Xin Tong

The rapid growth of AI-generated content (AIGC) services has created an urgent need for effective prompt pricing strategies, yet current approaches overlook users' strategic two-step decision-making process in selecting and utilizing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xiang Li , Bing Luo , Jianwei Huang , Yuan Luo

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly capable of generating persuasive content, understanding their effectiveness across different advertising strategies becomes critical. This paper presents a two-part investigation examining…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Elyas Meguellati , Stefano Civelli , Lei Han , Abraham Bernstein , Shazia Sadiq , Gianluca Demartini

High-stakes applications rely on combining Artificial Intelligence (AI) and humans for responsive and reliable decision making. For example, content moderation in social media platforms often employs an AI-human pipeline to promptly remove…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Thodoris Lykouris , Wentao Weng

The design of revenue-maximizing auctions with strong incentive guarantees is a core concern of economic theory. Computational auctions enable online advertising, sourcing, spectrum allocation, and myriad financial markets. Analytic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Kevin Kuo , Anthony Ostuni , Elizabeth Horishny , Michael J. Curry , Samuel Dooley , Ping-yeh Chiang , Tom Goldstein , John P. Dickerson

We study the problem of position allocation in job marketplaces, where the platform determines the ranking of the jobs for each seeker. The design of ranking mechanisms is critical to marketplace efficiency, as it influences both short-term…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Farzad Pourbabaee , Sophie Yanying Sheng , Peter McCrory , Luke Simon , Di Mo

Mechanism design has long been a cornerstone of economic theory, with traditional approaches relying on mathematical derivations. Recently, automated approaches, including differentiable economics with neural networks, have emerged for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Jiayuan Liu , Mingyu Guo , Vincent Conitzer

This paper explores the impact of context selection on the efficiency of Large Language Models (LLMs) in generating Artificial Intelligence (AI) research leaderboards, a task defined as the extraction of (Task, Dataset, Metric, Score)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Salomon Kabongo , Jennifer D'Souza , Sören Auer