A scalable neural network for DSIC affine maximizer auction design

Z Duan, H Sun, Y Chen, X Deng - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Automated auction design aims to find empirically high-revenue mechanisms through
machine learning. Existing works on multi item auction scenarios can be roughly divided into …

Optimal no-regret learning for one-sided lipschitz functions

P Dütting, G Guruganesh… - … on Machine Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Inspired by applications in pricing and contract design, we study the maximization of one-
sided Lipschitz functions, which only provide the (weaker) guarantee that they do not grow …

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 …

A context-integrated transformer-based neural network for auction design

Z Duan, J Tang, Y Yin, Z Feng, X Yan… - International …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
One of the central problems in auction design is developing an incentive-compatible
mechanism that maximizes the auctioneer's expected revenue. While theoretical …

Policy optimization using semiparametric models for dynamic pricing

J Fan, Y Guo, M Yu - Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, we study the contextual dynamic pricing problem where the market value of a
product is linear in its observed features plus some market noise. Products are sold one at a …

Distribution-free contextual dynamic pricing

Y Luo, WW Sun, Y Liu - Mathematics of Operations …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Contextual dynamic pricing aims to set personalized prices based on sequential interactions
with customers. At each time period, a customer who is interested in purchasing a product …

Online pricing with reserve price constraint for personal data markets

C Niu, Z Zheng, F Wu, S Tang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The society's insatiable appetites for personal data are driving the emergence of data
markets, allowing data consumers to launch customized queries over the datasets collected …

Contractual reinforcement learning: Pulling arms with invisible hands

J Wu, S Chen, M Wang, H Wang, H Xu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.01458, 2024 - arxiv.org
The agency problem emerges in today's large scale machine learning tasks, where the
learners are unable to direct content creation or enforce data collection. In this work, we …

Towards agnostic feature-based dynamic pricing: Linear policies vs linear valuation with unknown noise

J Xu, YX Wang - International Conference on Artificial …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
In feature-based dynamic pricing, a seller sets appropriate prices for a sequence of products
(described by feature vectors) on the fly by learning from the binary outcomes of previous …

Context-based dynamic pricing with partially linear demand model

J Bu, D Simchi-Levi, C Wang - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In today's data-rich environment, context-based dynamic pricing has gained much attention.
To model the demand as a function of price and context, the existing literature either adopts …