# Bidding Algorithms Benchmark — Audit Trail

> Every paper, dataset, codebase, and external resource consulted.
> Generated: 2026-05-05

## Papers Read (Methodology)

| # | Paper | arXiv | Section | Extraction |
|---|-------|-------|---------|------------|
| 1 | Wang et al. — First-Price Auctions with Budgets | 2304.13477 | §3 (full) | Algorithm 1, eqs (2)-(5), regret bound |
| 2 | Balseiro et al. — Dual Mirror Descent | 2011.10124 | §3 (full) | Theorem 1, mirror descent, stopping time |
| 3 | Feng et al. — RoS Constrained Bidding | 2208.13713 | §3 (full) | Two-variable dual, bid rule, updates |

## Papers Reviewed (Abstracts)

| # | Paper | arXiv | Year |
|---|-------|-------|------|
| 4 | Cai et al. — RLB | 1701.02490 | 2017 |
| 5 | Wang et al. — HiBid | 2312.17503 | 2023 |
| 6 | Mao et al. — FinalMLP | 2304.00902 | 2023 |
| 7 | Wang et al. — GDCN | 2311.04635 | 2023 |
| 8 | Wang et al. — DCN V2 | 2008.13535 | 2021 |
| 9 | Zhu et al. — BARS-CTR | 2009.05794 | 2021 |
| 10 | — Robust Budget Pacing | 2302.02006 | 2023 |
| 11 | — Multi-Channel Autobidding | 2302.01523 | 2023 |
| 12 | — No-Regret in Repeated FPA | 2205.14572 | 2022 |
| 13 | — Dynamic Budget Throttling | 2207.04690 | 2022 |
| 14 | — AIGB: Generative Auto-bidding | 2405.16141 | 2024 |
| 15 | — Adaptive Bidding Non-Stationarity | 2505.02796 | 2025 |
| 16 | — Joint Value Estimation | 2502.17292 | 2025 |
| 17 | — Leveraging Hints | 2211.06358 | 2022 |
| 18 | — Coordinated Dynamic Bidding | 2306.07709 | 2023 |
| 19 | — FCN: Fusing Cross Network | 2407.13349 | 2024 |
| 20 | — Contextual FPA (Quantile) | 2603.07207 | 2026 |

## Citation Graphs

| # | Source | Direction | Key Results |
|---|--------|-----------|-------------|
| 21 | Wang 2304.13477 | Both (20 refs, 20 cites) | Contextual extension 2603.07207 |

## Datasets Inspected

| # | Dataset | Tool | Result |
|---|---------|------|--------|
| 22 | reczoo/Criteo_x4 | hf_inspect_dataset | ✅ 45.8M rows, 13 dense + 26 cat |
| 23 | reczoo/Avazu_x4 | hf_inspect_dataset | ✅ 40.4M rows, 22 fields |
| 24 | iPinYou | hub_repo_search | ❌ Not on HF Hub |

## Codebases

| # | Repo | URL |
|---|------|-----|
| 25 | han-cai/rlb-dp | github.com/han-cai/rlb-dp |
| 26 | reczoo/FuxiCTR | github.com/reczoo/FuxiCTR |
| 27 | shenweichen/DeepCTR-Torch | github.com/shenweichen/DeepCTR-Torch |
| 28 | Novartis/torchsurv | github.com/Novartis/torchsurv |
| 29 | openbenchmark/BARS | github.com/openbenchmark/BARS |
| 30 | dingmu365/budget_constrained_bidding | github.com/dingmu365/budget_constrained_bidding |
| 31 | GinNie23/budget_constrained_bidding | github.com/GinNie23/budget_constrained_bidding |
| 32 | venkatacrc/Budget_Constrained_Bidding | github.com/venkatacrc/Budget_Constrained_Bidding |
| 33 | salmon1802/FCN | github.com/salmon1802/FCN |

## External Resources

| # | Resource | URL |
|---|----------|-----|
| 34 | BARS CTR Criteo_x4 Leaderboard | openbenchmark.github.io/BARS/CTR/leaderboard/criteo_x4.html |
| 35 | BARS CTR Avazu Leaderboard | openbenchmark.github.io/BARS/CTR/leaderboard/avazu_x4.html |
| 36 | FuxiCTR Docs | fuxictr.github.io |
| 37 | DeepCTR-Torch Docs | deepctr-torch.readthedocs.io |
| 38 | TorchSurv Docs | opensource.nibr.com/torchsurv |
| 39 | TorchSurv PyPI | pypi.org/project/torchsurv |
| 40 | fuxictr PyPI | pypi.org/project/fuxictr |
| 41 | deepctr-torch PyPI | pypi.org/project/deepctr-torch |
| 42 | iPinYou Dataset | data.computational-advertising.org |
| 43 | HF Papers | huggingface.co/papers |
| 44 | hamverbot/rtb-bidding-comparison | huggingface.co/hamverbot/rtb-bidding-comparison |

**Total: 44 resources**