Researchers have analyzed the efficiency of proportional mechanisms in online advertising auctions, focusing on automated bidding strategies. They established a tight price of anarchy bound of 2 for the standard proportional mechanism under the liquid welfare objective. A modified mechanism with an alternative payment scheme was introduced, achieving a price of anarchy bound approaching full efficiency as the number of agents increases. AI
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IMPACT Provides theoretical analysis for optimizing automated bidding strategies in online advertising auctions.
RANK_REASON Academic paper on auction mechanisms in online advertising.