Selling to Multiple No-Regret Buyers
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We consider the problem of repeatedly auctioning a single item to multiple i.i.d buyers who each use a no-regret learning algorithm to bid over time. In particular, we study the seller's optimal revenue, if they know that the buyers are no-regret learners (but only that their behavior satisfies some no-regret property -- they do not know the precise algorithm/heuristic used). Our main result designs an auction that extracts revenue equal to the full expected welfare whenever the buyers are "mean-based" (a property satisfied by standard no-regret learning algorithms such as Multiplicative Weights, Follow-the-Perturbed-Leader, etc.). This extends a main result of [BMSW18] which held only for a single buyer. Our other results consider the case when buyers are mean-based but never overbid. On this front, [BMSW18] provides a simple LP formulation for the revenue-maximizing auction for a single-buyer. We identify several formal barriers to extending this approach to multiple buyers.
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- 2026Near-optimal Swap Regret Minimization for Convex Losses9 Feb 2026
- 2026From No-Regret to Strategically Robust Learning in Repeated Auctions7 Jan 2026
- 2025Learning Local Stackelberg Equilibria from Repeated Interactions with a Learning Agent26 Oct 2025
- 2025Should Decision-Makers Reveal Classifiers in Online Strategic Classification?2 Jun 2025
- 2025Computational Intractability of Strategizing against Online Learners6 Mar 2025
- 2025Swap Regret and Correlated Equilibria Beyond Normal-Form Games27 Feb 2025
- 2025Best of Both Worlds: Regret Minimization versus Minimax Play17 Feb 2025
- 2025Full Swap Regret and Discretized Calibration13 Feb 2025
- 2025Markets with Heterogeneous Agents: Dynamics and Survival of Bayesian vs. No-Regret Learners12 Feb 2025
- 2024Learning to Play Against Unknown Opponents24 Dec 2024
- 2024Randomized Truthful Auctions with Learning Agents14 Nov 2024
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- 2024Maximizing utility in multi-agent environments by anticipating the behavior of other learners5 Jul 2024
- 2024Rate-Preserving Reductions for Blackwell Approachability10 Jun 2024
- 2024Games with Payments between Learning Agents31 May 2024
- 2024Generalized Principal-Agent Problem with a Learning Agent15 Feb 2024
- 2024Strategizing against No-Regret Learners in First-Price Auctions13 Feb 2024
- 2024Contracting with a Learning Agent29 Jan 2024
- 2023Fast swap regret minimization and applications to approximate correlated equilibria30 Oct 2023
- 2023Fast swap regret minimization and applications to approximate correlated equilibriacited by 30
- 2024Contracting with a Learning Agentcited by 22
- 2025Full Swap Regret and Discretized Calibrationcited by 13
- 2024Strategizing against No-Regret Learners in First-Price Auctionscited by 8
- 2024Maximizing utility in multi-agent environments by anticipating the behavior of other learnerscited by 7
- 2025Swap Regret and Correlated Equilibria Beyond Normal-Form Gamescited by 7
- 2024Generalized Principal-Agent Problem with a Learning Agentcited by 5
- 2025Should Decision-Makers Reveal Classifiers in Online Strategic Classification?cited by 5
- 2024Rate-Preserving Reductions for Blackwell Approachabilitycited by 4
- 2024Games with Payments between Learning Agentscited by 3
- 2024Learning to Play Against Unknown Opponentscited by 3
- 2025Computational Intractability of Strategizing against Online Learnerscited by 2
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- 2026Is Online Linear Optimization Sufficient for Strategic Robustness?12 Feb 2026
- 2026Near-optimal Swap Regret Minimization for Convex Losses9 Feb 2026
- 2026From No-Regret to Strategically Robust Learning in Repeated Auctions7 Jan 2026
- 2025Learning Local Stackelberg Equilibria from Repeated Interactions with a Learning Agent26 Oct 2025
- 2025Should Decision-Makers Reveal Classifiers in Online Strategic Classification?2 Jun 2025
- 2025Computational Intractability of Strategizing against Online Learners6 Mar 2025
- 2025Swap Regret and Correlated Equilibria Beyond Normal-Form Games27 Feb 2025
- 2025Best of Both Worlds: Regret Minimization versus Minimax Play17 Feb 2025
- 2025Full Swap Regret and Discretized Calibration13 Feb 2025
- 2025Markets with Heterogeneous Agents: Dynamics and Survival of Bayesian vs. No-Regret Learners12 Feb 2025
- 2024Learning to Play Against Unknown Opponents24 Dec 2024
- 2024Randomized Truthful Auctions with Learning Agents14 Nov 2024
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