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The potential move from search to question answering (QA) ignited the question of how should the move from sponsored search to sponsored QA look like. We present the first formal analysis of a sponsored QA platform. The platform fuses an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Tommy Mordo , Moshe Tennenholtz , Oren Kurland

Sustainable monetization of Large Language Models (LLMs) remains a critical open challenge. Traditional search advertising, which relies on static keywords, fails to capture the fleeting, context-dependent user intents--the specific…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Shengwei Xu , Zhaohua Chen , Xiaotie Deng , Zhiyi Huang , Grant Schoenebeck

We consider an extension to the classic position auctions in which sponsored creatives can be added within AI generated content rather than shown in predefined slots. New challenges arise from the natural requirement that sponsored…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Santiago Balseiro , Kshipra Bhawalkar , Yuan Deng , Zhe Feng , Jieming Mao , Aranyak Mehta , Vahab Mirrokni , Renato Paes Leme , Di Wang , Song Zuo

Sponsored search involves running an auction among advertisers who bid in order to have their ad shown next to search results for specific keywords. Currently, the most popular auction for sponsored search is the "Generalized Second Price"…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-07 Gagan Aggarwal , Jon Feldman , S. Muthukrishnan , Martin Pal

As Large Language Models (LLMs) become a primary interface between users and the web, companies face growing economic incentives to embed commercial influence into AI-mediated conversations. We present two preregistered experiments (N =…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Francesco Salvi , Alejandro Cuevas , Manoel Horta Ribeiro

Today's large language models (LLMs) are trained to align with user preferences through methods such as reinforcement learning. Yet models are beginning to be deployed not merely to satisfy users, but also to generate revenue for the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Addison J. Wu , Ryan Liu , Shuyue Stella Li , Yulia Tsvetkov , Thomas L. Griffiths

Sponsored search becomes an easy platform to match potential consumers' intent with merchants' advertising. Advertisers express their willingness to pay for each keyword in terms of bids to the search engine. When a user's query matches the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-20 Chenyang Li , Mingyi Hong , Randy Cogill , Alfredo Garcia

We study an auction setting in which bidders bid for placement of their content within a summary generated by a large language model (LLM), e.g., an ad auction in which the display is a summary paragraph of multiple ads. This generalizes…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Kumar Avinava Dubey , Zhe Feng , Rahul Kidambi , Aranyak Mehta , Di Wang

Efficient and fair spectrum allocation is a central challenge in 6G networks, where massive connectivity and heterogeneous services continuously compete for limited radio resources. We investigate the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ismail Lotfi , Ali Ghrayeb

Sponsored search represents a major source of revenue for web search engines. This popular advertising model brings a unique possibility for advertisers to target users' immediate intent communicated through a search query, usually by…

This paper explores the potential for leveraging Large Language Models (LLM) in the realm of online advertising systems. We introduce a general framework for LLM advertisement, consisting of modification, bidding, prediction, and auction…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Soheil Feizi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Keivan Rezaei , Suho Shin

This paper argues that large language model-based recommenders can displace today's attention-allocation machinery. LLM-based recommenders would ingest open-web content, infer a user's natural-language goals, and present information that…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Seth Lazar , Luke Thorburn , Tian Jin , Luca Belli

As Large Language Models (LLMs) transition into conversational agents, generative advertising emerges as a crucial monetization strategy. However, embedding advertisements within unstructured LLM outputs introduces a critical trilemma:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Peiran Yun , Wenxin Xu , Jiayuan Liu , Yihang Zhang , Liang Zeng , Lingkai Kong , Tonghan Wang

Sponsored search auctions constitute one of the most successful applications of microeconomic mechanisms. In mechanism design, auctions are usually designed to incentivize advertisers to bid their truthful valuations and to assure both the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Nicola Gatti , Alessandro Lazaric , Marco Rocco , Francesco Trovò

Modern commercial Internet search engines display advertisements along side the search results in response to user queries. Such sponsored search relies on market mechanisms to elicit prices for these advertisements, making use of an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Jon Feldman , S. Muthukrishnan

We investigate auction mechanisms for AI-generated content, focusing on applications like ad creative generation. In our model, agents' preferences over stochastically generated content are encoded as large language models (LLMs). We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Paul Duetting , Vahab Mirrokni , Renato Paes Leme , Haifeng Xu , Song Zuo

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly utilized in various complex reasoning tasks due to their excellent instruction following capability. However, the model's performance is highly dependent on the open-ended characteristics of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zhenzhen Huang , Chaoning Zhang , Fachrina Dewi Puspitasari , Jiaquan Zhang , Yitian Zhou , Shuxu Chen , Yang Yang

Psychological consultation is essential for improving mental health and well-being, yet challenges such as the shortage of qualified professionals and scalability issues limit its accessibility. To address these challenges, we explore the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Rafael Souza , Jia-Hao Lim , Alexander Davis

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become powerful foundations for generative recommender systems, framing recommendation tasks as text generation tasks. However, existing generative recommendation methods often rely on discrete ID-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jerome Ramos , Bin Wu , Aldo Lipani

The generalized second price (GSP) auction has served as the core selling mechanism for sponsored search ads for over a decade. However, recent trends expanding the set of allowed ad formats---to include a variety of sizes, decorations, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Ruggiero Cavallo , Prabhakar Krishnamurthy , Maxim Sviridenko , Christopher A. Wilkens
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