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New HOBA framework enhances online advertising bidding with hierarchical RL

Researchers have developed HOBA, a novel hierarchical reinforcement learning framework designed to improve online advertising bidding systems. This system decouples strategic reasoning, model selection, and bid execution across different time scales, using a large language model for hyperparameter inference and a SARSA agent for expert model selection. Experiments on the AuctionNet benchmark and a large-scale A/B test showed HOBA outperformed existing methods, leading to a 3.6% increase in target cost in a real-world deployment. AI

IMPACT This framework could lead to more adaptive and efficient online advertising systems by improving bid optimization and reducing manual tuning.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Ji Wu, Yunshan Peng, Wentao Bai, Yunke Bai, Wenzheng Shu, Jinan Pang, Yanxiang Zeng, Xialong Liu ·

    HOBA: Hierarchical On-Policy Bidding Agents for Adaptive Online Advertising

    arXiv:2607.24779v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online advertising bidding systems typically deploy multiple offline-trained expert models (e.g., PID controllers, model predictive control, offline RL policies) but face two critical limitations: lack of online adaptability to non-…