首个平台视角的自动竞价基准,兼顾广告主转化与平台收益。
PlatformBid: An Auto-Bidding Benchmark from a Unified Advertising Platform's Perspective

- 从统一广告平台视角构建竞价评估框架,涵盖三种真实竞争场景。
- 提出新方法BidFlow,利用流匹配提升动态环境下的竞价表现。
- 在快手线上实验中实现0.68%目标成本下降,验证了离线-线上一致性。
实时竞价是计算广告的核心,由供应方平台(SSP)出售广告位、需求方平台(DSP)为广告主竞拍、广告交易所组织拍卖。传统自动竞价算法仅关注DSP侧,通过调整出价以最大化广告主转化。然而,当前大型广告平台(如社交和电商公司)已内部整合了SSP、DSP与广告交易所功能。从平台视角看,自动竞价的目标不仅是最大化广告主转化,还需提升平台整体收入。鉴于缺乏平台中心化的评估框架,且迫切需要推进自动竞价研究,我们提出PlatformBid——首个基于统一广告平台视角的综合性基准。为准确反映真实竞价场景,我们定义三种代表性设置:(1) 同质竞争(所有广告主使用相同算法),(2) 异质竞争(不同算法策略共存),(3) 促销竞争(部分广告主在黑五等促销活动期间大幅增加预算)。我们系统评估了广泛现有的自动竞价方法,包括经典控制方法、基于强化学习的方法及近期生成式方法。此外,我们进一步提出一种基于流匹配的新方法BidFlow,利用其强大的策略表达能力,有效应对动态竞争环境。在快手平台的在线实验中,目标成本降低0.68%,验证了PlatformBid离线与线上的一致性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Real-time bidding is central to computational advertising, comprising three elements: Supply Side Platform (SSP) selling ad impressions, Demand Side Platform (DSP) bidding for advertisers, and Ad Exchange conducting auctions between them. Traditional auto-bidding algorithms focus solely on the DSP side, maximizing advertiser conversions by adjusting bids against competitors. However, current big ad platforms, such as social media and e-commerce companies, now integrate SSP, DSP, and Ad Exchange functions internally. From such ad platforms' perspective, the goal of the auto-bidding algorithms is not only to maximize the advertisers' conversions, but also the total revenue of the platform. Given the lack of platform-centric evaluation frameworks and the pressing need to advance auto-bidding research, we propose PlatformBid - the first comprehensive benchmark designed from a unified ad platform's perspective. To accurately reflect the real-world auto-bidding scenarios, we define three representative settings: (1) homogeneous competition with identical algorithms across advertisers, (2) heterogeneous competition with diverse algorithmic strategies, and (3) promotional competition where some advertisers surge budgets for boosting sales during promotional events like Black Friday. We systematically evaluate a broad spectrum of existing auto-bidding methods across these settings, encompassing classical control methods, RL-based methods, and recent generative methods. Besides these methods, we further propose a novel auto-bidding method based on flow-matching, termed BidFlow, which leverages the flow-matching method's expressive policy representation to effectively handle dynamic competitive environments. Online experiments on Kuaishou further show a +0.68\% improvement in target cost, providing deployment evidence for the offline-online consistency of PlatformBid.
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