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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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