| # RTB Bidding Algorithm Comparison — Audit Trail: Every Resource Read |
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| > Generated: 2026-05-05 |
| > This document lists every paper, codebase, dataset, and documentation page consulted. |
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| ## Papers Read (Methodology Sections) |
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| | # | Paper | arXiv | Section(s) Read | Key Extraction | |
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| | 1 | Wang et al. — Learning to Bid in Repeated First-Price Auctions with Budgets | 2304.13477 | Section 3 (full) | Algorithm 1: DualOGD, equations (2)-(5), regret bound | |
| | 2 | Balseiro et al. — Dual Mirror Descent for Online Allocation | 2011.10124 | Section 3 (full) | Theorem 1, mirror descent dual update, stopping time analysis | |
| | 3 | Feng et al. — Online Bidding for RoS Constrained Advertisers | 2208.13713 | Section 3 (full) | Two-variable dual, multiplicative + sub-gradient updates, bid rule | |
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| ## Papers Reviewed (Abstracts + Details) |
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| | # | Paper | arXiv | Venue | Year | |
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| | 4 | Cai et al. — RTB by RL in Display Advertising | 1701.02490 | WSDM | 2017 | |
| | 5 | Wang et al. — HiBid Hierarchical DRL Bidding | 2312.17503 | — | 2023 | |
| | 6 | Mao et al. — FinalMLP | 2304.00902 | AAAI | 2023 | |
| | 7 | Wang et al. — GDCN | 2311.04635 | CIKM | 2023 | |
| | 8 | Wang et al. — DCN V2 | 2008.13535 | WWW | 2021 | |
| | 9 | Zhu et al. — BARS-CTR Benchmark | 2009.05794 | CIKM | 2021 | |
| | 10 | — Robust Budget Pacing with a Single Sample | 2302.02006 | — | 2023 | |
| | 11 | — Multi-Channel Autobidding with Budget and ROI | 2302.01523 | — | 2023 | |
| | 12 | — No-Regret in Repeated FPA with Budgets | 2205.14572 | — | 2022 | |
| | 13 | — Dynamic Budget Throttling | 2207.04690 | — | 2022 | |
| | 14 | — AIGB: Generative Auto-bidding | 2405.16141 | — | 2024 | |
| | 15 | — Adaptive Bidding under Non-Stationarity | 2505.02796 | — | 2025 | |
| | 16 | — Joint Value Estimation and Bidding | 2502.17292 | — | 2025 | |
| | 17 | — Leveraging Hints: Adaptive Bidding | 2211.06358 | — | 2022 | |
| | 18 | — No-Regret is not enough! | 2405.06575 | — | 2024 | |
| | 19 | — Coordinated Dynamic Bidding in Second-Price | 2306.07709 | — | 2023 | |
| | 20 | — FCN: Fusing Cross Network | 2407.13349 | — | 2024 | |
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| ## Citation Graphs Traced |
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| | # | Source Paper | Direction | Key Findings | |
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| | 21 | Wang et al. 2304.13477 | Both (20 refs, 20 citations) | Trace to Balseiro 2020, contextual extension 2603.07207 | |
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| ## Datasets Inspected |
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| | # | Dataset | Tool | Findings | |
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| | 22 | reczoo/Criteo_x4 | hf_inspect_dataset | Verified: 45.8M rows, 13 dense + 26 cat, Label column, 5.6GB | |
| | 23 | reczoo/Avazu_x4 | hf_inspect_dataset | Verified: 40.4M rows, 22 fields, click column, 1.8GB | |
| | 24 | iPinYou (search) | hub_repo_search | NOT on HF Hub — external download only | |
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| ## Codebases Identified |
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| | # | Repo | URL | Stars | |
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| | 25 | han-cai/rlb-dp | https://github.com/han-cai/rlb-dp | 188 | |
| | 26 | reczoo/FuxiCTR | https://github.com/reczoo/FuxiCTR | Major | |
| | 27 | shenweichen/DeepCTR-Torch | https://github.com/shenweichen/DeepCTR-Torch | Major | |
| | 28 | Novartis/torchsurv | https://github.com/Novartis/torchsurv | 200 | |
| | 29 | openbenchmark/BARS | https://github.com/openbenchmark/BARS | 389 | |
| | 30 | dingmu365/budget_constrained_bidding | https://github.com/dingmu365/budget_constrained_bidding | — | |
| | 31 | GinNie23/budget_constrained_bidding | https://github.com/GinNie23/budget_constrained_bidding | — | |
| | 32 | venkatacrc/Budget_Constrained_Bidding | https://github.com/venkatacrc/Budget_Constrained_Bidding | — | |
| | 33 | salmon1802/FCN | https://github.com/salmon1802/FCN | — | |
| | 34 | hamverbot/rtb-bidding-comparison | https://huggingface.co/hamverbot/rtb-bidding-comparison | Your repo | |
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| ## External Resources |
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| | # | Resource | URL | |
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| | 35 | BARS CTR Criteo_x4 Leaderboard | https://openbenchmark.github.io/BARS/CTR/leaderboard/criteo_x4.html | |
| | 36 | BARS CTR Avazu Leaderboard | https://openbenchmark.github.io/BARS/CTR/leaderboard/avazu_x4.html | |
| | 37 | FuxiCTR Documentation | https://fuxictr.github.io/ | |
| | 38 | DeepCTR-Torch Documentation | https://deepctr-torch.readthedocs.io/ | |
| | 39 | TorchSurv Documentation | https://opensource.nibr.com/torchsurv/ | |
| | 40 | TorchSurv PyPI | https://pypi.org/project/torchsurv/ | |
| | 41 | fuxictr PyPI | https://pypi.org/project/fuxictr/ | |
| | 42 | deepctr-torch PyPI | https://pypi.org/project/deepctr-torch/ | |
| | 43 | iPinYou Dataset | data.computational-advertising.org | |
| | 44 | HF Papers Dashboard | https://huggingface.co/papers | |
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| **Total resources consulted: 44** |
| - Papers: 20 (3 read in full methodology, 17 abstracts/details) |
| - Datasets: 3 inspected |
| - Codebases: 10 identified |
| - External references: 10 (leaderboards, docs, PyPI) |
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