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This paper describes an engine to optimize web publisher revenues from second-price auctions. These auctions are widely used to sell online ad spaces in a mechanism called real-time bidding (RTB). Optimization within these auctions is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Pedro Chahuara , Nicolas Grislain , Grégoire Jauvion , Jean-Michel Renders

Recent work has addressed the algorithmic problem of allocating advertisement space for keywords in sponsored search auctions so as to maximize revenue, most of which assume that pricing is done via a first-price auction. This does not…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-09-12 Yossi Azar , Benjamin Birnbaum , Anna R. Karlin , C. Thach Nguyen

Most recent papers addressing the algorithmic problem of allocating advertisement space for keywords in sponsored search auctions assume that pricing is done via a first-price auction, which does not realistically model the Generalized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-08-21 Yossi Azar , Benjamin Birnbaum , Anna R. Karlin , C. Thach Nguyen

The real-time bidding (RTB), aka programmatic buying, has recently become the fastest growing area in online advertising. Instead of bulking buying and inventory-centric buying, RTB mimics stock exchanges and utilises computer algorithms to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-28 Shuai Yuan , Jun Wang , Xiaoxue Zhao

In online advertising markets, budget-constrained advertisers acquire ad placements through repeated bidding in auctions on various platforms. We present a strategy for bidding optimally in a set of auctions that may or may not be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Fransisca Susan , Negin Golrezaei , Okke Schrijvers

Budget-management systems are one of the key components of modern auction markets. Internet advertising platforms typically offer advertisers the possibility to pace the rate at which their budget is depleted, through budget-pacing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Andrea Celli , Riccardo Colini-Baldeschi , Christian Kroer , Eric Sodomka

Sponsored search in E-commerce platforms such as Amazon, Taobao and Tmall provides sellers an effective way to reach potential buyers with most relevant purpose. In this paper, we study the auction mechanism optimization problem in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Gang Bai , Zhihui Xie , Liang Wang

We study the problem of finding the optimal bidding strategy for an advertiser in a multi-platform auction setting. The competition on a platform is captured by a value and a cost function, mapping bidding strategies to value and cost…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Gagan Aggarwal , Anupam Gupta , Xizhi Tan , Mingfei Zhao

Auctions have been proposed as a way to provide economic incentives for primary users to dynamically allocate unused spectrum to other users in need of it. Previously proposed schemes do not take into account the fact that the power…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-24 Deepan Palguna , David J. Love , Ilya Pollak

We present a model of digital advertising with three key features: (i) advertisers can reach consumers on and off a platform, (ii) additional data enhances the value of advertiser-consumer matches, and (iii) bidding follows auction-like…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-04-25 Dirk Bergemann , Alessandro Bonatti , Nicholas Wu

With the emergence of new online channels and information technology, digital advertising tends to substitute more and more to traditional advertising by offering the opportunity to companies to target the consumers/users that are really…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Médéric Motte , Huyên Pham

Modern content platforms offer paid promotion to mitigate cold start by allocating exposure via auctions. Our empirical analysis reveals a counterintuitive flaw in this paradigm: while promotion rescues low-to-medium quality content, it can…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yumou Liu , Zhenzhe Zheng , Jiang Rong , Yao Hu , Fan Wu , Guihai Chen

Advertisers increasingly use automated bidding to optimize their ad campaigns on online advertising platforms. Autobidding optimizes an advertiser's objective subject to various constraints, e.g. average ROI and budget constraints. In this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Gagan Aggarwal , Giannis Fikioris , Mingfei Zhao

A single unit of a good is sold to one of two bidders. Each bidder has either a high prior valuation or a low prior valuation for the good. Their prior valuations are independently and identically distributed. Each bidder may observe an…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-05-10 Wanchang Zhang

Displaying banner advertisements (in short, ads) on webpages has usually been discussed as an Internet economics topic where a publisher uses auction models to sell an online user's page view to advertisers and the one with the highest bid…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Xiang Chen , Bowei Chen , Mohan Kankanhalli

Many large-scale machine learning problems involve estimating an unknown parameter $\theta_{i}$ for each of many items. For example, a key problem in sponsored search is to estimate the click through rate (CTR) of each of billions of…

Applications · Statistics 2015-11-27 Omkar Muralidharan , Amir Najmi

Calibration is defined as the ratio of the average predicted click rate to the true click rate. The optimization of calibration is essential to many online advertising recommendation systems because it directly affects the downstream bids…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Yewen Fan , Nian Si , Kun Zhang

Managing millions of digital auctions is an essential task for modern advertising auction systems. The main approach to managing digital auctions is an autobidding approach, which depends on the Click-Through Rate and Conversion Rate…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Andrey Pudovikov , Alexandra Khirianova , Ekaterina Solodneva , Gleb Molodtsov , Aleksandr Katrutsa , Yuriy Dorn , Egor Samosvat

Combinatorial auctions (CA) are a well-studied area in algorithmic mechanism design. However, contrary to the standard model, empirical studies suggest that a bidder's valuation often does not depend solely on the goods assigned to him. For…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Yun Kuen Cheung , Monika Henzinger , Martin Hoefer , Martin Starnberger

Matching problems have been widely studied in the research community, especially Ad-Auctions with many applications ranging from network design to advertising. Following the various advancements in machine learning, one natural question is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Eniko Kevi , Nguyen Kim Thang