Regularized Online Allocation Problems: Fairness and Beyond

Authors: Santiago Balseiro, Haihao Lu, Vahab Mirrokni

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental Numerical experiments confirm the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm and of the regularizers in an internet advertising application.
Researcher Affiliation Collaboration 1Columbia University, New York, USA 2Google Research, New York, USA 3University of Chicago.
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1: Dual Subgradient Descent Algorithm
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide any links to source code or explicitly state that code is made publicly available.
Open Datasets Yes We utilize the display advertisement dataset introduced in Balseiro et al. (2014).
Dataset Splits No The paper describes sampling data from estimated distributions for experiments but does not specify any training/validation/test splits or mention a dedicated validation set.
Hardware Specification No The paper does not specify any hardware details (e.g., CPU, GPU models, memory) used for running the experiments.
Software Dependencies No The paper mentions using 'cvxpy (Diamond and Boyd, 2016)' but does not provide a specific version number for this or any other software dependency.
Experiment Setup Yes In the numerical experiments, we implemented Algorithm 1 with weights wj = 2 j and step-size 0.01 T 1/2. ... For each regularization level λ and time horizon T, we randomly choose T samples from their dataset that are fed to Algorithm 1 sequentially. ... We report the average cumulative reward, the average max-min consumption fairness, and the average regret of 100 independent trials in Figure 1 and Figure 2.