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Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning framework that can deal with the distributed issue in machine learning and still guarantee high learning performance. However, it is impractical that all users will sacrifice their resources…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Tra Huong Thi Le , Nguyen H. Tran , Yan Kyaw Tun , Minh N. H. Nguyen , Shashi Raj Pandey , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Digital advertising constitutes one of the main revenue sources for online platforms. In recent years, some advertisers tend to adopt auto-bidding tools to facilitate advertising performance optimization, making the classical \emph{utility…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Hongtao Lv , Zhilin Zhang , Zhenzhe Zheng , Jinghan Liu , Chuan Yu , Lei Liu , Lizhen Cui , Fan Wu

Iterative combinatorial auctions (CAs) are often used in multi-billion dollar domains like spectrum auctions, and speed of convergence is one of the crucial factors behind the choice of a specific design for practical applications. To…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Gianluca Brero , Sébastien Lahaie , Sven Seuken

We investigate approximately optimal mechanisms in settings where bidders' utility functions are non-linear; specifically, convex, with respect to payments (such settings arise, for instance, in procurement auctions for energy). We provide…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Amy Greenwald , Takehiro Oyakawa , Vasilis Syrgkanis

In this paper we formulate a contract design problem where a primary license holder wishes to profit from its excess spectrum capacity by selling it to potential secondary users/buyers. It needs to determine how to optimally price the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2012-07-30 Shang-Pin Sheng , Mingyan Liu

Online Resource Allocation addresses the problem of efficiently allocating limited resources to buyers with incomplete knowledge of future requests. In our setting, buyers arrive sequentially requesting a set of items, each with a value…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Dimitris Fotakis , Charalampos Platanos , Thanos Tolias

We initiate the study of the social welfare loss caused by corrupt auctioneers, both in single-item and multi-unit auctions. In our model, the auctioneer may collude with the winning bidders by letting them lower their bids in exchange for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Andries van Beek , Ruben Brokkelkamp , Guido Schäfer

This paper studies the use of a multi-attribute auction in a communication system to bring about efficient relaying in a non-cooperative setting. We consider a system where a source seeks to offload data to an access point (AP) while…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Winston Hurst , Yasamin Mostofi

In mechanism design it is typical to impose incentive compatibility and then derive an optimal mechanism subject to this constraint. By replacing the incentive compatibility requirement with the goal of minimizing expected ex post regret,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-07 Paul Duetting , Felix Fischer , Pitchayut Jirapinyo , John K. Lai , Benjamin Lubin , David C. Parkes

In a power grid, the electricity supply and demand must be balanced at all times to maintain the system's frequency. In practice, the grid operator achieves this balance by procuring frequency reserves in an ahead-of-time market setting.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-05 Felix Rey , Xiaojing Zhang , Sandro Merkli , Valentina Agliati , Maryam Kamgarpour , John Lygeros

We study combinatorial auctions where each item is sold separately but simultaneously via a second price auction. We ask whether it is possible to efficiently compute in this game a pure Nash equilibrium with social welfare close to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-10 Shahar Dobzinski , Hu Fu , Robert Kleinberg

In this paper a new mathematical model is proposed for task scheduling and resource allocation in Grid systems. In this novel model, load balancing, starvation prevention and failing strategies are stated as the constraints and the solution…

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We derive valuations of a portfolio of financial instruments from a securities lending perspective, under different assumptions, and show a weighting scheme that converges to the true valuation. We illustrate conditions under which our…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2019-07-23 Ravi Kashyap

One significant challenge in cognitive radio networks is to design a framework in which the selfish secondary users are obliged to interact with each other truthfully. Moreover, due to the vulnerability of these networks against jamming…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Mohammad Aghababaie Alavijeh , Behrouz Maham , Zhu Han , Walid Saad

This paper investigates the integration of large language models (LLMs) as reasoning agents in repeated spectrum auctions within heterogeneous networks (HetNets). While auction-based mechanisms have been widely employed for efficient…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Ismail Lotfi , Ali Ghrayeb , Samson Lasaulce , Merouane Debbah

We consider an outsourcing problem where a software agent procures multiple services from providers with uncertain reliabilities to complete a computational task before a strict deadline. The service consumer requires a procurement strategy…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Farzaneh Farhadi , Maria Chli , Nicholas R. Jennings

We show that the multiplicative weight update method provides a simple recipe for designing and analyzing optimal Bayesian Incentive Compatible (BIC) auctions, and reduces the time complexity of the problem to pseudo-polynomial in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-12 Anand Bhalgat , Sreenivas Gollapudi , Kamesh Munagala

An overview of different variants of the submodular welfare maximization problem in combinatorial auctions. In particular, I studied the existing algorithmic and game theoretic results for submodular welfare maximization problem and its…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-25 Samira Samadi

We develop a method using parameterized linear equations to define trading mechanisms in market design models. Our method adeptly addresses challenges arising from factors such as complex endowments or coarse priorities, while offering…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-08-18 Jingsheng Yu , Jun Zhang

In this paper we formulate the fixed budget resource allocation game to understand the performance of a distributed market-based resource allocation system. Multiple users decide how to distribute their budget (bids) among multiple machines…

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