广告竞价中未知转化价值时,仍能高效达标并最大化收益。
Online Bidding under RoS Constraints without Knowing the Value
- 用置信上界法动态平衡探索与利用,自动学习每笔广告的价值。
- 理论证明误差和违规量控制在约√(T log|B|T)级别,为最优解。
- 适合广告主在不知转化价值时做实时竞价,尤其关注成本效益的场景。
我们研究在线广告竞价问题,广告商需在预算和投入产出比(RoS)约束下最大化收益。与以往假设已知每次点击价值不同,本文考虑更现实的场景:广告商必须同时学习最优出价策略和每次展示的实际价值。这带来探索与利用的双重挑战——既要尝试不同出价以估算价值,又要基于已有知识有效出价。为此,我们提出一种新型上置信界(UCB)算法,精巧处理该权衡。通过严格理论分析,证明该算法的累计遗憾和约束违反均达到$ ilde{O}( oot{2}{T ext{log}(| ext{B}|T)})$水平,首次实现在线竞价中未知价值情况下的最优边界。算法计算高效、易于实现。我们在合成数据上验证了其优异的实证表现,优于现有方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We consider the problem of bidding in online advertising, where an advertiser aims to maximize value while adhering to budget and Return-on-Spend (RoS) constraints. Unlike prior work that assumes knowledge of the value generated by winning each impression ({e.g.,} conversions), we address the more realistic setting where the advertiser must simultaneously learn the optimal bidding strategy and the value of each impression opportunity. This introduces a challenging exploration-exploitation dilemma: the advertiser must balance exploring different bids to estimate impression values with exploiting current knowledge to bid effectively. To address this, we propose a novel Upper Confidence Bound (UCB)-style algorithm that carefully manages this trade-off. Via a rigorous theoretical analysis, we prove that our algorithm achieves $\widetilde{O}(\sqrt{T\log(|\mathcal{B}|T)})$ regret and constraint violation, where $T$ is the number of bidding rounds and $\mathcal{B}$ is the domain of possible bids. This establishes the first optimal regret and constraint violation bounds for bidding in the online setting with unknown impression values. Moreover, our algorithm is computationally efficient and simple to implement. We validate our theoretical findings through experiments on synthetic data, demonstrating that our algorithm exhibits strong empirical performance compared to existing approaches.
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