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New DRIVE framework improves Transformer-based auto-bidding strategies

Researchers have introduced DRIVE, a novel Transformer-based framework designed to enhance auto-bidding strategies in real-time advertising systems. This framework addresses limitations in existing methods, such as unimodal formulations that can lead to suboptimal averaged actions and unreliability in sparse traffic conditions. DRIVE integrates distributional action modeling, retrieval-augmented candidate generation from historical data, and value-based evaluation to improve decision-making for offline auto-bidding. Experiments on AuctionNet and other benchmarks indicate that DRIVE consistently enhances bidding performance and generalizes effectively across various Transformer-based approaches. AI

IMPACT Enhances bidding performance in real-time advertising by improving Transformer-based models.

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Miduo Cui, Haochen Wang, Shangqin Mao, Xun Yang, Qianlong Xie, Xingxing Wang, Xuri Ge, Ying Zhou, Zhiwei Xu ·

    DRIVE: Distributional and Retrieval-Augmented Bidding with Value Evaluation

    arXiv:2606.14192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Auto-bidding is a core component of real-time advertising systems, where decisions must optimize long-term performance under budget and cost constraints, while online exploration is prohibitively risky. Offline reinforcement learnin…

  2. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhiwei Xu ·

    DRIVE: Distributional and Retrieval-Augmented Bidding with Value Evaluation

    Auto-bidding is a core component of real-time advertising systems, where decisions must optimize long-term performance under budget and cost constraints, while online exploration is prohibitively risky. Offline reinforcement learning and, more recently, Transformer-based sequence…