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Poster
Repeated Contextual Auctions with Strategic Buyers
Kareem Amin · Afshin Rostamizadeh · Umar Syed

Thu Dec 11 11:00 AM -- 03:00 PM (PST) @ Level 2, room 210D
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Motivated by real-time advertising exchanges, we analyze the problem of pricing inventory in a repeated posted-price auction. We consider both the cases of a truthful and surplus-maximizing buyer, where the former makes decisions myopically on every round, and the latter may strategically react to our algorithm, forgoing short-term surplus in order to trick the algorithm into setting better prices in the future. We further assume a buyer’s valuation of a good is a function of a context vector that describes the good being sold. We give the first algorithm attaining sublinear (O(T^{2/3})) regret in the contextual setting against a surplus-maximizing buyer. We also extend this result to repeated second-price auctions with multiple buyers.

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Kareem Amin (University of Pennsylvania)
Afshin Rostamizadeh (Google Research)
Umar Syed (Google Research)

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