Patent

Utilizing a Forward Looking Nash Equilibrium in an Ad-Words Auction, U.S. Patent 7996267. Publication Date: August 9, 2011.

Profit Opportunities across Sponsored Keyword Auction Markets, U.S, Patent 8335717. Publication Date: December 18, 2012.

Conference/Journal Proceedings

Uncovering the Impact of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Direct Preference Optimization: Lessons from Text-to-SQL. Hanbing Liu, Haoyang Li, Xiaokang Zhang, Ruotong Chen, Haiyong Xu, Tian Tian, Qi Qi, Jing Zhang. ACL2025.

Learnable-Differentiable Finite Volume Solver for Accelerated Simulation of Flows. Mengtao Yan, Qi Wang, Haining Wang, Ruizhi Chengze, Yi Zhang, Hongsheng Liu, Zidong Wang, Fan Yu, Qi Qi, Hao Sun. KDD2025. 

Optimal Auction Design in the joint Advertising. Yang Li, Yucao Ma, Qi Qi. ICML2025.

Hybrid Advertising in the Sponsored Search. Zhen Zhang, Weian Li, Yuhan Wang, Qi Qi, Kun Huang. SIGIR 2025.

A Comparative Study of Waitlist Mechanisms: Deferral Versus Pay-Per-Offer. Zhou Chen, Qi Qi, Hao Sun, Muyang Zhao. IJTCS-FAW2025.

Policy-aware Reward Modeling with Uncertainty-Gradient based Data Augmentation. Zexu Sun, Yiju Guo, Yankai Lin, Xu Chen, Qi Qi, Xing Tang, Xiuqiang He, Ji-Rong Wen. ICLR 2025.

A Context-Aware Framework for Integrating Ad Auctions and Recommendations. Yuchao Ma, Weian Li, Yuejia Dou, Zhiyuan Su, Changyuan Yu, Qi Qi. WWW 2025.

 On Designing the Optimal Integrated Ad Auction in E-commerce Platforms. Yuchao Ma, Weian Li, Yuhan Wang, Zitian Guo, Yuejia Dou, Qi Qi, Changyuan Yu. AAAI 2025.

GenAuction: A Generative Auction for Online Advertising. Yuchao Ma, Ruohan Qian, Bingzhe Wang, Qi Qi, Wenqiang liu, Qian Tang, Zhao Shen, Wei Zhong, Bo Shen, Yixin Su, Bin Zou, Wen Yi, Zhi Guo, Shuanglong Li, Lin Liu. AAAI 2025.

Merging Mechanisms for Ads and Organic Items in E-commerce Platforms. Nan An, Weian Li, Qi Qi, Liang Zhang. AAAI 2025.

Truthful Online Double Auctions for On-demand Integrated Ride-sourcing Platforms. Xiaoshu Ding, Qi Qi, Sisi Jian. European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), Volume 317, Issue 3, 16 September 2024, Pages 737-747.

 Sequential Causal Effect Estimation by Jointly Modeling the Unmeasured Confounders and Instrumental Variables. Zexu Sun, Bowei He, Shiqi Shen, Zhipeng Wang, Zhi Gong, Chen Ma, Qi Qi, Xu Chen. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 2024.

Srap-agent: Simulating and optimizing scarce resource allocation policy with llm-based agent. Jiarui Ji, Yang Li, Hongtao Liu, Zhicheng Du, Zhewei Wei, Qi Qi, Weiran Shen, Yankai Lin. EMNLP 2024.

Near-Optimal Algorithm for Supporting Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Ad Systems. Weian Li, Qi Qi, Bingzhe Wang, Tao Xiao, Changyuan Yu. COCOON 2024.

 Joint Auction in the Online Advertising Market, Zhen Zhang, Weian Li, Yahui Lei, Bingzhe Wang, Zhicheng Zhang, Qi Qi, Qiang Liu, Xingxing Wang. KDD2024.

Computations and Complexities of Tarski’s Fixed Points and Supermodular Games, Chuangyin Dang, Qi Qi, Yinyu Ye. IJTCS-FAW2024.

FairSync: Ensuring Amortized Group Exposure in Distributed Recommendation Retrieval, Chen Xu, Jun Xu, Yiming Ding, Xiao Zhang, Qi Qi, WWW2024.

 Joint Bidding in Ad Auctions, Yuchao Ma, Weian Li, Wanzhi Zhang, Yahui Lei, Zhicheng Zhang, Qi Qi, Qiang Liu and Xingxing Wang, TAMC2024.

Competition among Pairwise Lottery Contests, Xiaotie Deng, Hangxin Gan, Ningyuan Li, Weian Li, Qi Qi, AAAI2024.

Fisher markets with linear constraints: Equilibrium properties and efficient distributed algorithms. Devansh Jalota, Marco Pavone, Qi Qi, Yinyu Ye. Games and Economic Behavior (GEB), Volume 141, September 2023, Pages 223-260.

Optimally integrating ad auction into e-commerce platforms. Weian Li, Qi Qi, Changjun Wang, Changyuan Yu. Theoretical Computer Science (TCS), Volume 976, 17 October 2023, 114-141.

Mechanism design for Mobility-as-a-Service platform considering travelers’ strategic behavior and multidimensional requirements.  Xiaoshu Ding, Qi Qi, Sisi Jian, Hai Yang. Transportation Research Part B (TR-B), Volume 173, July 2023, Pages 1-30.

Truthfulness of a Network Resource-Sharing Protocol. Yukun Cheng, Qi Qi, Xiaotie Deng and Xiang Yan. Mathematics of Operations Research (MOR), 2023, 48(3):1522-1552.

Equilibrium Analysis of Customer Attraction Games. Xiaotie Deng, Ningyuan Li, Weian Li and Qi Qi. WINE2023.

Mechanism Design in Fair Sequencing, Zhou Chen, Yiming Ding, Qi Qi, Lingfei Yu, IJTCS-FAW2023.

Competition Among Parallel Contests. Xiaotie Deng, Ningyuan Li, Weian Li, Qi Qi. WINE 2022.

Optimally Integrating Ad Auction into E-Commerce Platforms. Weian Li, Qi Qi, Changjun Wang, Changyuan Yu.  IJTCS-FAW 2022: 44-58 (Best Paper Award)

Understanding PPA-completeness. Xiaotie Deng; Jack R. Edmonds; Zhe Feng; Zhengyang Liu; Qi Qi; Zeying Xu. Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS). 2021, 115: 146-168. 

Tight Bound on Incentive Ratio for Sybil Attack in Resource Sharing System. Zhou Chen, Yukun Cheng, Xiaotie Deng, Qi Qi and Xiang Yan. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. 2020.

A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Empirical Revenue Maximization Algorithm with Endogenous Sampling. Xiaotie Deng, Ron Lavi, Tao Lin, Qi Qi, Wenwei Wang and Xiang Yan. Accepted by the 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). 2020.

Markets for Efficient Public Good Allocation with Social Distancing. Devansh Jalota, Marco Pavone, Qi Qi and Yinyu Ye. WINE2020.

On the Approximability of Simple Mechanisms for MHR Distributions. Yaonan Jin, Weian Li and Qi Qi. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE). 2019.

Tight Approximation Ratio of Anonymous Pricing. Yaonan Jin, Pinyan Lu, Qi Qi, Zhihao Gavin Tang and Tao Xiao. Proceedings of the 51st Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC). 2019.

Agent Incentives of Strategic Behavior in Resource Exchange. Zhou Chen, Yukun Cheng, Xiaotie Deng, Qi Qi and Xiang Yan. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 264: 15-25. 2019.

Competitive and Collaborative Inuence in Social Networks. Qi Qi, Wenwei Wang and Lingfei Yu. Journal of the Operations Research Society of China (Special Issue: Optimization Algorithms and Applications, Guest Editors: Dongdong Ge, Zai-Wen Wen, Ya-Xiang Yuan), 7(1): 169-182. 2019.

Agent Incentives of a Proportional Sharing Mechanism in Resource Sharing. Zhou Chen, Yukun Cheng, Qi Qi and Xiang Yan. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 37(2):639-667. 2019.

What is the Optimal Deferral Number in Waitlist Mechanism. Zhou Chen, Qi Qi, Changjun Wang and Wenwei Wang. Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT). 2018.

Limiting User's Sybil Attack in Resource Sharing. Zhou Chen, Yukun Cheng, Xiaotie Deng, Qi Qi and Xiang Yan. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE). 2017.

Mechanism Design with Efficiency and Equality Considerations. Zhou Chen, Qi Qi, Changjun Wang and Wenwei Wang. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE). 2017.

Balancing Efficiency and Equality in Vehicle Licenses Allocation. Zhou Chen, Qi Qi and Changjun Wang. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE). 2017.

Incentive Ratios of a Proportional Sharing Mechanism in Resource Sharing. Zhou Chen, Yukun Cheng, Qi Qi and Xiang Yan. Proceedings of the 23^rd Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON). 2017.

Agent Incentives of Strategic Behavior in Resource Exchange. Zhou Chen, Yukun Cheng, Xiaotie Deng, Qi Qi and Xiang Yan. Proceedings of the 10^th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT). 2017.

Understanding PPA-Completeness. Xiaotie Deng, R. Jack Edmonds, Zhe Feng, Zhengyang Liu,Qi Qi and Zeying Xu. Proceedings of the 31st conference on computational complexity (CCC). 2016.

Truthfulness of a Proportional Sharing Mechanism in Resource Exchange. Yukun Cheng, Xiaotie Deng, Qi Qi and Xiang Yan. Proceedings of the 25th conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). 2016.

On Algorithmic Solutions for Envy-Free Cake Cutting. With Xiaotie Deng and Amin Saberi. Operations Research, 60(6): 1461-1476. 2012.

Multi-bidding Strategy in Sponsored Search Auctions.  With Tian-Ming Bu and Xiaotie Deng. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 23(3): 356-372. 2012.

Discrete Fixed Points: Models, Complexities and Applications. With  Xiaotie Deng, Amin Saberi and Jie Zhang. Mathematics of Operations Research, 36(4): 636-652. 2011.

On Robustness of Forward-looking in Sponsored Search Auction. With Tian-Ming Bu and Li Liang. Algorithmica, 58(4): 970-989. 2010.

Direction Preserving Zero Point Computing and Applications. Xiaotie Deng, Qi Qi and Jie Zhang. Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Internet and Network Economics (WINE). 2009.

Priority Right Auction for Komi Setting. Xiaotie Deng and Qi Qi. Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Internet and Network Economics (WINE). 2009.

Multi-bidding Strategy in Sponsored Keyword Auction. Tian-Ming Bu, Xiaotie Deng, Qi Qi. Proceedings of the 2nd International Frontiers of Algorithmics Workshop (FAW). 2008.

Arbitrage Opportunities across Sponsored Search Markets. Tian-Ming Bu, Xiaotie Deng, Qi Qi. Proceedings of the workshop on Targeting and Ranking for Online Advertising (TROA) in conjunction with WWW. 2008.

Strategies in Dynamic Pari-mutual Markets. Tian-Ming Bu, Xiaotie Deng, Qianya Lin and Qi Qi. Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Internet and Network Economics (WINE). 2008.

Arbitrage Opportunities across Sponsored Search Markets. With Tian-Ming Bu and Xiaotie Deng. Theoretical Computer Science, 407(1-3): 182-191. 2008.

Unconditional Competitive Auctions with Copy and Budget Constraints. With Tian-Ming Bu and AriesWei Sun. Theoretical Computer Science, 393(1-3): 1-13. 2008.

Forward Looking Nash Equilibrium for Keyword Auction. With Tian-Ming Bu and Xiaotie Deng. Information Processing Letters. 105(2): 41-46. 2008.

Cooperative or Vindictive: Bidding Strategies in Sponsored Search Auction. Li Liang and Qi Qi. Proceedings of the 3th international conference on Internet and Network Economics (WINE). 2007.

Properties of Symmetric Incentive Compatible Auctions. Xiaotie Deng, Kazuo Iwama, Qi Qi and Aries Wei Sun, Toyotaka Tasaka. Proceedings of the 13^th Annual international conference on Computing and Combinatorics (COCOON). 2007.

Dynamics of Strategic Manipulation in Ad-word Auction. Tian-Ming Bu, Xiaotie Deng and Qi Qi. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Sponsored Search Auctions (SSA). 2007.

Unconditional Competitive Auctions with Copy and Budget Constraints. Tian-Ming Bu, Qi Qi, AriesWei Sun. Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Internet and Network Economics (WINE). 2006.