Poster
Contextual Pricing for Lipschitz Buyers
Jieming Mao · Renato Leme · Jon Schneider
Room 210 #74
Keywords: [ Bandit Algorithms ] [ Online Learning ] [ Game Theory and Computational Economics ]
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Abstract:
We investigate the problem of learning a Lipschitz function from binary
feedback. In this problem, a learner is trying to learn a Lipschitz function
over the course of rounds. On round , an
adversary provides the learner with an input , the learner submits a
guess for , and learns whether or . The learner's goal is to minimize their total loss (for some loss function ). The problem is motivated by \textit{contextual dynamic pricing},
where a firm must sell a stream of differentiated products to a collection of
buyers with non-linear valuations for the items and observes only whether the
item was sold or not at the posted price.
For the symmetric loss , we
provide an algorithm for this problem achieving total loss
when and when , and show that both bounds are
tight (up to a factor of ). For the pricing loss function
we show a regret
bound of and show that this bound is tight. We present
improved bounds in the special case of a population of linear buyers.
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