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TAR: Generative Auto-Bidding and Budget Pacing via Multi-Scale Trajectory Modeling

sigir26-182 · Full research paper · Liang Shi, Longxiang Xu, Zhengju Tang, Yundu Huang, Jian Xu, Zhi Yang
Advertising and Auction Mechanisms · 100%
Abstract

Auto-bidding and budget pacing are formulated as sequential decision-making tasks. While flexible, such a framework faces a fundamental granularity mismatch: decisions are made at a fine temporal scale, while their performance feedback is fully and reliably observable at a much coarser resolution. This manifests as sparse reward signals and delayed feedback, forcing agents to learn from locally noisy and incomplete signals. We address this core challenge by introducing the Trajectory Auto-Regressive Model (TAR), a generative framework that aligns planning resolution with feedback dynamics. Motivated by the insight that coarser temporal aggregation yields denser rewards and less scattered feedback, TAR generates trajectories in a coarse-to-fine manner. It incorporates three key innovations: (1) progressive trajectory generation across multiple temporal scales; (2) latent-space compression via a multi-scale VQVAE to handle heterogeneous feature types; and (3) state-action integration that captures long-term dependencies without auxiliary inverse models. Comprehensive experiments in both sparse-reward and delayed-feedback settings demonstrate that TAR consistently outperforms strong baselines in offline simulations and online deployment, validating its effectiveness in overcoming the granularity mismatch for more stable and robust advertising optimization.

Assigned reviewers

#ReviewerMatchWhy (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy)
1 Ching Law
44
100 Auto-bidding under Return-on-Spend Constraints with Uncertainty Quantification (2026) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
63 AutoPP: Towards Automated Product Poster Generation and Optimization (2026) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
62 SMTIR: Scenario-Aware Multi-Trigger Induction Network for CTR Prediction (2025) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
2 Xialong Liu
44
100 ZIPBid: Hierarchical Zero-shot Incremental Spend Planning for Auto-bidding (2026) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
100 R&F-Inventory: A Large-Scale Dataset for Monotonic Inventory Estimation in Reach and Frequency Advertising (2026) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
63 Expert-Guided Diffusion Planner for Auto-Bidding (2025) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms

Area chair

Area chairMatch
Fernando Diaz 0001 21
Area-chair candidates (2)
Yanan Niu 2115 papers
Fernando Diaz 0001 assigned 2112 papers

Candidates from the panel ranked by match score

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1 Yusen Huo COI: co-author 100 3
100 Generative Auto-bidding via Conditional Diffusion Modeling (2024) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
100 DARA: Few-shot Budget Allocation in Online Advertising via In-Context Decision Making with RL-Finetuned LLMs (2026) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
2 Zhilin Zhang 0003 COI: co-author 97 3
100 Generative Auto-bidding via Conditional Diffusion Modeling (2024) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
100 DARA: Few-shot Budget Allocation in Online Advertising via In-Context Decision Making with RL-Finetuned LLMs (2026) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
3 Chuan Yu 0002 COI: co-author 95 3
100 Generative Auto-bidding via Conditional Diffusion Modeling (2024) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
100 DARA: Few-shot Budget Allocation in Online Advertising via In-Context Decision Making with RL-Finetuned LLMs (2026) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
4 Tianyu Wang 0028 COI: co-author 76 3
100 Generative Auto-bidding via Conditional Diffusion Modeling (2024) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
100 GAM: A Generative Auto-Marketing Framework in Online E-commerce Platforms (2026) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
5 Ching Law assigned 44 3
100 Auto-bidding under Return-on-Spend Constraints with Uncertainty Quantification (2026) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
63 AutoPP: Towards Automated Product Poster Generation and Optimization (2026) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
6 Xialong Liu assigned 44 3
100 ZIPBid: Hierarchical Zero-shot Incremental Spend Planning for Auto-bidding (2026) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
100 R&F-Inventory: A Large-Scale Dataset for Monotonic Inventory Estimation in Reach and Frequency Advertising (2026) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
7 Xuanhua Yang 36 3
63 Gradient Coordination for Quantifying and Maximizing Knowledge Transference in Multi-Task Learning (2023) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
60 AdaSparse: Learning Adaptively Sparse Structures for Multi-Domain Click-Through Rate Prediction (2022) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
8 Xin Zhang 0091 33 3
100 Temporal Uplift Modeling for Online Marketing (2024) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
19 Graph-aware collaborative reasoning for click-through rate prediction (2023) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction
9 Shijie Wang 0002 28 3
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27 Continuous-time Discrete-space Diffusion Model for Recommendation (2026) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
10 Yifan Wang 0017 27 3
60 Unbiased Delayed Feedback Label Correction for Conversion Rate Prediction (2023) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
26 Graph-Structured Driven Dual Adaptation for Mitigating Popularity Bias (2026) Popularity Bias and Debiasing in Recommendation
11 Yuta Saito 25 3
26 MultiScale Contextual Bandits for Long Term Objectives (2025) Long-Term Engagement and Retention Optimization
26 Long-term Off-Policy Evaluation and Learning (2024) Long-Term Engagement and Retention Optimization
12 Zhengyi Yang 0007 25 3
27 AlphaDPO: Adaptive Reward Margin for Direct Preference Optimization (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
27 Towards Robust Alignment of Language Models: Distributionally Robustifying Direct Preference Optimization (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
13 Zechun Niu 25 3
27 Distributionally Robust Optimization for Unbiased Learning to Rank (2025) Unbiased Learning to Rank
26 Addressing Personalized Bias for Unbiased Learning to Rank (2025) Unbiased Learning to Rank
14 Sunhao Dai 24 3
60 Dually Enhanced Delayed Feedback Modeling for Streaming Conversion Rate Prediction (2023) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
26 Counteracting User Attention Bias in Music Streaming Recommendation via Reward Modification (2022) Popularity Bias and Debiasing in Recommendation
15 Chongming Gao 24 3
28 Process-Supervised LLM Recommenders via Flow-guided Tuning (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
28 SPRec: Self-Play to Debias LLM-based Recommendation (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
16 Yimeng Bai 24 3
27 GradCraft: Elevating Multi-task Recommendations through Holistic Gradient Crafting (2024) Multi-Task and Multi-Objective Optimization
24 LabelCraft: Empowering Short Video Recommendations with Automated Label Crafting (2024) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation
17 Theresia Veronika Rampisela 24 3
24 Evaluation Measures of Individual Item Fairness for Recommender Systems: A Critical Study (2025) Fairness Metrics and Evaluation
24 Relevance-aware Individual Item Fairness Measures for Recommender Systems: Limitations and Usage Guidelines (2026) Fairness Metrics and Evaluation
18 Shuchang Liu 0001 24 3
26 Modeling User Retention through Generative Flow Networks (2024) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
26 PrefRec: Recommender Systems with Human Preferences for Reinforcing Long-term User Engagement (2023) Long-Term Engagement and Retention Optimization
19 Jizhi Zhang 24 3
27 Large Language Models are Learnable Planners for Long-Term Recommendation (2024) Preference Alignment and Optimization
27 TALLRec: An Effective and Efficient Tuning Framework to Align Large Language Model with Recommendation (2023) Preference Alignment and Optimization
20 Yang Zhang 0072 23 3
27 TALLRec: An Effective and Efficient Tuning Framework to Align Large Language Model with Recommendation (2023) Preference Alignment and Optimization
27 Reason4Rec: Deliberative User Preference Alignment of Large Language Models for Recommendation (2026) Preference Alignment and Optimization
21 Jaime Arguello 22 3
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28 Improving Aggregated Search Coherence (2015) Personalized and Context-Aware Retrieval
22 Jie Jiang 0015 COI: co-author 22 3
62 Ads Recommendation in a Collapsed and Entangled World (2024) Advertising and Auction Mechanisms
27 STEM: Unleashing the Power of Embeddings for Multi-Task Recommendation (2024) Multi-Task and Multi-Objective Optimization
23 Xiao Zhang 0034 22 3
26 Counterfactual Reward Modification for Streaming Recommendation with Delayed Feedback (2021) Long-Term Engagement and Retention Optimization
26 Enhancing Bandit Algorithms with LLMs for Time-varying User Preferences in Streaming Recommendations (2026) Long-Term Engagement and Retention Optimization
24 Yongqi Li 0001 22 3
27 Efficient Inference for Large Language Model-based Generative Recommendation (2025) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
27 EARN: Efficient Inference Acceleration for LLM-based Generative Recommendation by Register Tokens (2025) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
25 Han Li 0005 COI: co-author 22 3
26 Making Transformer Decoders Better Differentiable Indexers (2025) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
26 DualGR: Generative Retrieval with Long and Short-Term Interests Modeling (2026) Generative Retrieval and Ranking
26 Xuanhui Wang 21 3
28 Situational Context for Ranking in Personal Search (2017) Personalized and Context-Aware Retrieval
26 Learning to Rank in Theory and Practice: From Gradient Boosting to Neural Networks and Unbiased Learning (2019) Unbiased Learning to Rank
27 Seongmin Park 0002 21 3
26 Bilateral Self-unbiased Learning from Biased Implicit Feedback (2022) Popularity Bias and Debiasing in Recommendation
26 Dual Unbiased Recommender Learning for Implicit Feedback (2021) Popularity Bias and Debiasing in Recommendation
28 Huifeng Guo 21 3
25 LLMTreeRec: Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models for Cold-Start Recommendations (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
24 A Comprehensive Survey on Automated Machine Learning for Recommendations (2024) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation
31 Romain Deffayet 21 3
25 SARDINE: Simulator for Automated Recommendation in Dynamic and Interactive Environments (2024) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation
25 Generative Slate Recommendation with Reinforcement Learning (2023) Offline RL for Recommendation
32 Bo Chen 0023 21 3
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25 Large language models make sample-efficient recommender systems (2025) Efficiency and Deployment