Frontiers in Service Science: Data-Driven Revenue Management: The Interplay of Data, Model, and Decisions

N Chen, M Hu - Service Science, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
Revenue management (RM) is the application of analytical methodologies and tools that
predict consumer behavior and optimize product availability and prices to maximize a firm's …

Dynamic incentive-aware learning: Robust pricing in contextual auctions

N Golrezaei, A Javanmard… - Advances in Neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Motivated by pricing in ad exchange markets, we consider the problem of robust learning of
reserve prices against strategic buyers in repeated contextual second-price auctions …

Incentive-aware contextual pricing with non-parametric market noise

N Golrezaei, P Jaillet… - … Conference on Artificial …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
We consider a dynamic pricing problem for repeated contextual second-price auctions with
multiple strategic buyers who aim to maximize their long-term time discounted utility. The …

User strategization and trustworthy algorithms

SH Cen, A Ilyas, A Madry - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.17666, 2023 - arxiv.org
Many human-facing algorithms--including those that power recommender systems or hiring
decision tools--are trained on data provided by their users. The developers of these …

Perfect bayesian equilibria in repeated sales

NR Devanur, Y Peres, B Sivan - Proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual ACM …, 2014 - SIAM
A special case of Myerson's classic result describes the revenue-optimal equilibrium when a
seller offers a single item to a buyer. We study a natural repeated sales extension of this …

Nash convergence of mean-based learning algorithms in first price auctions

X Deng, X Hu, T Lin, W Zheng - … of the ACM Web Conference 2022, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Understanding the convergence properties of learning dynamics in repeated auctions is a
timely and important question in the area of learning in auctions, with numerous applications …

Linear program-based approximation for personalized reserve prices

M Derakhshan, N Golrezaei… - Management …, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
We study the problem of computing data-driven personalized reserve prices in eager
second price auctions without having any assumption on valuation distributions. Here, the …

Boosted second price auctions: Revenue optimization for heterogeneous bidders

N Golrezaei, M Lin, V Mirrokni… - Proceedings of the 27th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The second price auction has been the prevalent auction format used by advertising
exchanges because of its simplicity and desirable incentive properties. However, even with …

Dynamic learning and market making in spread betting markets with informed bettors

JR Birge, Y Feng, NB Keskin… - Operations …, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
We study the profit-maximization problem of a market maker in a spread betting market. In
this market, the market maker quotes cutoff lines for the outcome of a certain future event as …

Lp-based approximation for personalized reserve prices

M Derakhshan, N Golrezaei, RP Leme - arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.01526, 2019 - arxiv.org
We study the problem of computing data-driven personalized reserve prices in eager
second price auctions without having any assumption on valuation distributions. Here, the …