Title
Bid Optimization by Multivariable Control in Display Advertising.
Abstract
Real-Time Bidding (RTB) is an important paradigm in display advertising, where advertisers utilize extended information and algorithms served by Demand Side Platforms (DSPs) to improve advertising performance. A common problem for DSPs is to help advertisers gain as much value as possible with budget constraints. However, advertisers would routinely add certain key performance indicator (KPI) constraints that the advertising campaign must meet due to practical reasons. In this paper, we study the common case where advertisers aim to maximize the quantity of conversions, and set cost-per-click (CPC) as a KPI constraint. We convert such a problem into a linear programming problem and leverage the primal-dual method to derive the optimal bidding strategy. To address the applicability issue, we propose a feedback control-based solution and devise the multivariable control system. The empirical study based on real-word data from Taobao.com verifies the effectiveness and superiority of our approach compared with the state of the art in the industry practices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3292500.3330681
KDD
Keywords
Field
DocType
bid optimization, display advertising, feedback control, real-time bidding
Mathematical optimization,Performance indicator,Multivariable calculus,Budget constraint,Display advertising,Computer science,Operations research,Advertising campaign,Linear programming,Bidding,Empirical research
Journal
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
abs/1905.10928
978-1-4503-6201-6
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
23
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xun Yang1131.66
Yasong Li240.46
H. Wang366549.59
Di Wu4153.11
qing tan5153.73
Jian Xu630120.18
Kun Gai731220.61