4 citations · 11 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for
8 papers · 1 filter
Pareto-Efficient Multi-Buyer Mechanisms: Characterization, Fairness and Welfare
Moshe Babaioff, Sijin Chen, Zhaohua Chen +1
A truthful mechanism for a Bayesian single-item auction results with some ex-ante revenue for the seller, and some ex-ante total surplus for the buyers. We study the Pareto frontie…
Ad Insertion in LLM-Generated Responses
Shengwei Xu, Zhaohua Chen, Xiaotie Deng +2
Sustainable monetization of large language models (LLMs) remains a critical open challenge. Traditional search advertising, which relies on static keywords, fails to capture the fl…
Are Bounded Contracts Learnable and Approximately Optimal?
Yurong Chen, Zhaohua Chen, Xiaotie Deng +1
This paper considers the hidden-action model of the principal-agent problem, in which a principal incentivizes an agent to work on a project using a contract. We investigate whethe…
Robust Decision Aggregation with Second-order Information
Yuqi Pan, Zhaohua Chen, Yuqing Kong
We consider a decision aggregation problem with two experts who each make a binary recommendation after observing a private signal about an unknown binary world state. An agent, wh…
Coordinated Dynamic Bidding in Repeated Second-Price Auctions with Budgets
Yurong Chen, Qian Wang, Zhijian Duan +4
In online ad markets, a rising number of advertisers are employing bidding agencies to participate in ad auctions. These agencies are specialized in designing online algorithms and…
Dynamic Budget Throttling in Repeated Second-Price Auctions
Zhaohua Chen, Chang Wang, Qian Wang +6
In today's online advertising markets, a crucial requirement for an advertiser is to control her total expenditure within a time horizon under some budget. Among various budget con…
Budget-Constrained Auctions with Unassured Priors: Strategic Equivalence and Structural Properties
Zhaohua Chen, Mingwei Yang, Chang Wang +5
In today's online advertising markets, it is common for advertisers to set long-term budgets. Correspondingly, advertising platforms adopt budget control methods to ensure that adv…
On Tightness of Tsaknakis-Spirakis Descent Methods for Approximate Nash Equilibria
Zhaohua Chen, Xiaotie Deng, Wenhan Huang +2
This article explores the minimum approximation ratio for Nash equilibrium in bi-matrix games, focusing on the Tsaknakis and Spirakis (TS) methods. The previous SOTA, TS algorithm,…