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If you recommend a product to me and I buy it, how much should you be paid by the seller? And if your sole interest is to maximize the amount paid to you by the seller for a sequence of recommendations, how should you recommend optimally if…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-10 Paul Dütting , Monika Henzinger , Ingmar Weber

Efficient and truthful mechanisms to price resources on remote servers/machines has been the subject of much work in recent years due to the importance of the cloud market. This paper considers revenue maximization in the online stochastic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Shant Boodaghians , Federico Fusco , Stefano Leonardi , Yishay Mansour , Ruta Mehta

Sponsored search is an important monetization channel for search engines, in which an auction mechanism is used to select the ads shown to users and determine the prices charged from advertisers. There have been several pieces of work in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-05 Di He , Wei Chen , Liwei Wang , Tie-Yan Liu

Consider the problem of allocating goods to buyers through an auction. An auction is efficient if the resulting allocation maximizes total welfare, conditional on the information available. If buyers have private values, the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Andrei Ciupan

A seller is selling a pair of divisible complementary goods to an agent. The agent consumes the goods only in a specific ratio and freely disposes of excess in either goods. The value of the bundle and the ratio are private information of…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-07-15 Komal Malik , Kolagani Paramahamsa

Topology optimization can generate efficient structures, but designers often must manually translate qualitative intent, such as desired visual style, product experience, or manufacturability into solver settings that are not directly tied…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Isabella A. Stewart , Hongrui Chen , Faez Ahmed

When agents with independent priors bid for a single item, Myerson's optimal auction maximizes expected revenue, whereas Vickrey's second-price auction optimizes social welfare. We address the natural question of trade-offs between the two…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-15 Ilias Diakonikolas , Christos Papadimitriou , George Pierrakos , Yaron Singer

We study the problem of allocating $T$ sequentially arriving items among $n$ homogeneous agents under the constraint that each agent must receive a pre-specified fraction of all items, with the objective of maximizing the agents' total…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Steven Yin , Shipra Agrawal , Assaf Zeevi

There is a growing interest in utilizing large-scale language models (LLMs) to advance next-generation Recommender Systems (RecSys), driven by their outstanding language understanding and in-context learning capabilities. In this scenario,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Haohao Qu , Wenqi Fan , Zihuai Zhao , Qing Li

In continuous-choice settings, consumers decide not only on whether to purchase a product, but also on how much to purchase. Thus, firms optimize a full price schedule rather than a single price point. This paper provides a methodology to…

General Economics · Economics 2024-08-13 Soheil Ghili , Russ Yoon

We present a recommender system based on the Random Utility Model. Online shoppers are modeled as rational decision makers with limited information, and the recommendation task is formulated as the problem of optimally enriching the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Benjamin Heymann , Flavian Vasile , David Rohde

I study multidimensional sequential screening. A monopolist contracts with a buyer who privately observes information about the distribution of their eventual valuations for multiple goods. After initial private information is reported and…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-05 Eric Gao

In many data-driven online decision systems, actions determine not only operational costs but also the data availability for future learning -- a phenomenon termed Prediction-Induced Censoring (PIC). This challenge is particularly acute in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Yan Chen , Ruyi Huang , Cheng Liu

Traditional online industrial advertising systems suffer from the limitations of multi-stage cascaded architectures, which often discard high-potential candidates prematurely and distribute decision logic across disconnected modules. While…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zuowu Zheng , Ze Wang , Fan Yang , Jiangke Fan , Teng Zhang , Yongkang Wang , Xingxing Wang

We provide an elementary proof that revenue-maximizing mechanisms exist in multi-parameter settings whenever the distribution of valuations has finite expectation.

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Sergiu Hart , Noam Nisan

The rate-regulation tradeoff, defined between two objective functions, one penalizing the packet rate and one the regulation cost, can express the fundamental performance bound of networked control systems. However, the characterization of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Touraj Soleymani , John S. Baras , Sandra Hirche , Karl H. Johansson

Training large language models on massive datasets is computationally expensive, yet empirical evidence suggests that substantial portions of training examples contribute minimally to final performance. Data subset selection addresses this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ashish Jha , Valentin Leplat , AH Phan

The commercial deployment of 5G communication networks makes the industry and academia to seriously consider the possible solutions for the next generation. Although the conventional approach indicates that 6G vision and requirements can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-03 Shunqing Zhang , Chenlu Xiang , Shugong Xu

Two-sided marketplaces such as eBay, Etsy and Taobao have two distinct groups of customers: buyers who use the platform to seek the most relevant and interesting item to purchase and sellers who view the same platform as a tool to reach out…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Andrew Stanton , Akhila Ananthram , Congzhe Su , Liangjie Hong

We study a bilateral trade problem where a principal has private information that is revealed with delay, such as a seller who does not yet know her production cost. Postponing the contracting process incurs a costly delay, while early…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-08-05 Francesco Giovannoni , Toomas Hinnosaar