arXiv AI
Sep 4

Data Market Design through Deep Learning

The paper tackles the data market design problem, which seeks signaling schemes that maximize revenue for an information seller. It applies deep learning to learn these schemes, addressing both obedience and incentive constraints, and demonstrates that the framework can replicate known theoretical solutions, extend to more complex scenarios, and suggest new optimal designs. The study builds on prior auction‑design work and introduces a novel approach for revenue‑optimal data markets.

By Sai Srivatsa Ravindranath, Yanchen Jiang, David C. Parkes
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 23

Fast Iterative Combinatorial Auctions via Deep Reinforcement Learning

FastCombo is a deep reinforcement learning method for iterative combinatorial auctions that learns price policies offline and applies them online with a single neural‑network forward pass. By formulating the problem as a partially observable Markov decision process, it assigns credit to queries that enable future decisions, thereby reducing the expected number of auction rounds. Experiments show that FastCombo achieves competitive clearing while cutting online price‑selection time by roughly 300–900 times compared to a standard Bayesian baseline.

By Luis F. Paul Tosta, Quinn Arnold, Gianluca Brero
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 18

Learning to Price with Persuasion

arXiv:2608. 16699v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Motivated by modern marketplaces, where the platform or the seller routinely gathers detailed user profiles, we study a novel learning theoretic model that simultaneously involves information and mechanism design.

By Maria-Florina Balcan, Tejas Pagare, Karan Singh
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 22

JD-BP: A Joint-Decision Generative Framework for Auto-Bidding and Pricing

arXiv:2604. 05845v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Auto-bidding services optimize real-time bidding strategies for advertisers under key performance indicator (KPI) constraints such as target return on investment and budget.

By Linghui Meng, Chun Gan, Shengsheng Niu, Chengcheng Zhang, Chenchen Li, Chuan Yang, Yi Mao, Xin Zhu, Jie He, Zhangang Lin, Ching Law
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 23

LLM-Auction: Generative Auction towards LLM-Native Advertising

The paper introduces LLM‑Auction, a learning‑based generative auction mechanism that integrates ad allocation with large language model (LLM) generation. It redefines the auction object from discrete ad slots to distributions over LLM outputs, aligning allocation with advertiser value and user experience while inherently modeling allocation externalities without extra inference cost. The authors prove allocation monotonicity and continuity, show a first‑price payment rule has favorable incentive properties, and demonstrate state‑of‑the‑art allocation efficiency in a simulated LLM‑as‑a‑judge environment.

By Chujie Zhao, Qun Hu, Shiping Song, Dagui Chen, Han Zhu, Jian Xu, Bo Zheng