Learning to Price Against a Moving Target

Authors: Renato Paes Leme, Balasubramanian Sivan, Yifeng Teng, Pratik Worah

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical Here we study the problem where the buyer s value is a moving target, i.e., they change over time either by a stochastic process or adversarially with bounded variation. In either case, we provide matching upper and lower bounds on the optimal revenue loss. Since the target is moving, any information learned soon becomes out-dated, which forces the algorithms to keep switching between exploring and exploiting phases.
Researcher Affiliation Collaboration 1Google Research, New York, NY, USA 2Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1 Symmetric-loss minimizing algorithm for adversarial buyer with known changing rate ϵ
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide any statement or link indicating that the source code for the methodology is openly available.
Open Datasets No The paper is theoretical and does not use datasets for empirical evaluation, thus no public dataset access information for training is provided.
Dataset Splits No The paper is theoretical and does not involve empirical evaluation with datasets, so no training/validation/test splits are mentioned.
Hardware Specification No The paper is theoretical and does not report experimental results; therefore, no hardware specifications are mentioned.
Software Dependencies No The paper is theoretical and does not report experimental results; therefore, no software dependencies with version numbers are mentioned.
Experiment Setup No The paper is theoretical and focuses on algorithm design and theoretical bounds, so no specific experimental setup details or hyperparameters are provided.