设计了一种近似最优的交易机制学习算法,实现近似最优后悔率。
Nearly Tight Regret Bounds for Profit Maximization in Bilateral Trade
- 基于博弈论框架设计可激励且个体理性的学习机制
- 在独立同分布设定下达到近似最优的 ̉O(√T) 后悔率
- 适用于拍卖、双边交易等场景,适合机制设计研究者
双边交易建模了中介者在持有私有估值的卖方和买方之间促成交易的任务。本文从中介视角出发,在后悔最小化框架下研究该问题:每轮新买卖双方到来,中介需提出一个可激励且个体理性的机制以最大化利润。我们提出一种学习算法,在卖方与买方估值独立同分布且可能相关时,可保证近似最优的 ̉O(√T) 后悔率。进一步证明,在对手预先生成估值的非平稳情形下,无法实现次线性后悔。我们的基准是最佳可激励且个体理性的机制,区别于以往效率最大化中以最优固定价格为基准的做法。核心挑战在于所有机制利润的统一收敛不可能成立;我们通过精细的链式分析,证明了近最优机制以近乎最优速率收敛。此外,我们还展示了该方法在联合广告问题中的广泛适用性,获得近最优结果。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Bilateral trade models the task of intermediating between two strategic agents, a seller and a buyer, willing to trade a good for which they hold private valuations. We study this problem from the perspective of a broker, in a regret minimization framework. At each time step, a new seller and buyer arrive, and the broker has to propose a mechanism that is incentive-compatible and individually rational, with the goal of maximizing profit. We propose a learning algorithm that guarantees a nearly tight $\tilde{O}(\sqrt{T})$ regret in the stochastic setting when seller and buyer valuations are drawn i.i.d. from a fixed and possibly correlated unknown distribution. We further show that it is impossible to achieve sublinear regret in the non-stationary scenario where valuations are generated upfront by an adversary. Our ambitious benchmark for these results is the best incentive-compatible and individually rational mechanism. This separates us from previous works on efficiency maximization in bilateral trade, where the benchmark is a single number: the best fixed price in hindsight. A particular challenge we face is that uniform convergence for all mechanisms' profits is impossible. We overcome this difficulty via a careful chaining analysis that proves convergence for a provably near-optimal mechanism at (essentially) optimal rate. We further showcase the broader applicability of our techniques by providing nearly optimal results for the joint ads problem.
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