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Workshop: Optimal Transport and Machine Learning

Learning Revenue-Maximizing Auctions With Differentiable Matching

Michael Curry · Uro Lyi · Tom Goldstein · John P Dickerson


Abstract:

We propose a new architecture to approximately learn incentive compatible, revenue-maximizing auctions from sampled valuations, which uses the Sinkhorn algorithm to perform a differentiable bipartite matching. This new framework allows the network to learn strategyproof revenue-maximizing mechanisms in settings not learnable by the previous RegretNet architecture. In particular, our architecture is able to learn mechanisms in settings without free disposal where each bidder must be allocated exactly some number of items. In experiments, we show our approach successfully recovers multiple known optimal mechanisms and high-revenue, low-regret mechanisms in larger settings where the optimal mechanism is unknown.

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