Tight Regret Bounds for Bilateral Trade under Semi Feedback

Abstract

The study of \textit{regret minimization in fixed-price bilateral trade} has received considerable attention in recent research. Previous works [CCC+24a, CCC+24b, AFF24, BCCF24, CJLZ25, LCM25a, GDFS25] have acquired a thorough understanding of the problem, except for determining the tight regret bound for GBB semi-feedback fixed-price mechanisms under adversarial values. In this paper, we resolve this open question by devising an $\tilde{O}(T^{2/3})$-regret mechanism, matching the $\hat{I}\text{c◯}(T^{2/3})$ lower bound from [CJLZ25] up to polylogarithmic factors.