arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

PlatformBid: An Auto-Bidding Benchmark from a Unified Advertising Platform's Perspective

arXiv:2607. 27265v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time bidding is central to computational advertising, comprising three elements: Supply Side Platform (SSP) selling ad impressions, Demand Side Platform (DSP) bidding for advertisers, and Ad Exchange conducting auctions between them.

By Shengtian Yang, Yewen Li, Peng Jiang, Zhiyi Lyu, Bo An, Peng Jiang, Qingpeng Cai, Lei Feng
arXiv AI
Sep 24

Shopping by algorithm: How agentic AI deploys human heuristics as a surrogate consumer

The study investigates how Large Language Models (LLMs) acting as surrogate consumers are influenced by marketing pricing cues such as just‑below pricing and promotional framing. Using a tool called "Tool‑Lab" to trace information acquisition, the researchers found that when no cost is imposed, pricing cues rarely mislead LLMs, but when acquisition costs are introduced under a vague goal prompt, LLMs tend to omit important diagnostic attributes and make suboptimal choices similar to human heuristics. The findings suggest that marketing heuristics in AI‑driven shopping are shaped more by storefront information architecture than by inherent LLM limitations.

By Davood Wadi, Yu Ma
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 10

AgenticGen: Reward-Guided Agentic Video Generation for Advertising

AgenticGen is a reward‑guided framework for generating advertising videos that splits the task into strategy selection and draft generation, allowing online business feedback to supervise each stage. It learns performance‑based rewards from accumulated online metrics and rubric‑based rewards aligned with human quality standards, then applies DPO and GRPO to refine policies. Offline tests confirm the reward models, and online A/B tests on TikTok show significant gains in CTR, CVR, and advertising value over a baseline.

By Xingyuan Bu, Chengru Song, Hao Zhou, Tao Zhou, Dong Li, Wei Li, Shilong Li, Hao Shi, Yongxin Guo, Donghao Zhou, Qiangpeng Yang, Shilei Wen