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Poster

Improved learning rates in multi-unit uniform price auctions

Marius Potfer · Dorian Baudry · Hugo Richard · Vianney Perchet · Cheng Wan


Abstract: Motivated by the strategic participation of electricity producers in electricity day-ahead market, we study the problem of online learning in repeated multi-unit uniform price auctions. The main contribution of this paper is the introduction of a new modelling of the action space. Indeed, we prove that a learning algorithm leveraging the structure of this problem achieves a regret of $\tilde{O}(K^{4/3}T^{2/3})$ under bandit feedback, improving over the bound of $\tilde{O}(K^{7/4}T^{3/4})$ previously obtained in the literature. This improved regret rate is tight up to logarithmic terms.Inspired by electricity reserve markets, we further introduce a different feedback model under which all winning bids are revealed. This feedback interpolate between the full-information and bandit scenario depending on the auctions' result. We prove that, under this feedback, the algorithm that we propose achieves regret $\tilde{O}(K^{5/2}\sqrt{T})$.

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