7 papers
Distributed Load Balancing with Workload-Dependent Service Rates
Wenxin Zhang, Santiago R. Balseiro, Robert Kleinberg +3
Modern service systems, including cloud platforms and large language model inference endpoints, must distribute jobs across servers whose processing speeds depend on current worklo…
Dynamic Pricing for Reusable Resources: The Power of Two Prices
Santiago R. Balseiro, Will Ma, Wenxin Zhang
Motivated by real-world applications such as rental and cloud computing services, we investigate pricing for reusable resources. We consider a system where a single resource with a…
Position Auctions in AI-Generated Content
Santiago Balseiro, Kshipra Bhawalkar, Yuan Deng +7
We consider an extension to the classic position auctions in which sponsored creatives can be added within AI generated content rather than shown in predefined slots. New challenge…
Load Balancing with Network Latencies via Distributed Gradient Descent
Santiago R. Balseiro, Vahab S. Mirrokni, Bartek Wydrowski
Motivated by the growing demand for serving large language model inference requests, we study distributed load balancing for global serving systems with network latencies. We consi…
Battery Operations in Electricity Markets: Strategic Behavior and Distortions
Jerry Anunrojwong, Santiago R. Balseiro, Omar Besbes +1
Battery storage can reduce electricity generation costs by shifting energy across time, but as privately owned batteries become large, they may also be able to exert market power.…
Robust Auction Design with Support Information
Jerry Anunrojwong, Santiago R. Balseiro, Omar Besbes
A seller wants to sell an item to buyers. Buyer valuations are drawn i.i.d. from a distribution unknown to the seller; the seller only knows that the support is included in $[a…