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Speeding up deferred acceptance 加快延期验收
Pub Date : 2024-09-10 DOI: arxiv-2409.06865
Gregory Z. Gutin, Daniel Karapetyan, Philip R. Neary, Alexander Vicker, Anders Yeo
A run of the deferred acceptance (DA) algorithm may contain proposals thatare sure to be rejected. We introduce the accelerated deferred acceptancealgorithm that proceeds in a similar manner to DA but with sure-to-be rejectedproposals ruled out. Accelerated deferred acceptance outputs the same stablematching as DA but does so more efficiently: it terminates in weakly fewerrounds, requires weakly fewer proposals, and final pairs match no later.Computational experiments show that these efficiency savings can be strict.
延迟接受(DA)算法的运行可能包含一些肯定会被拒绝的建议。我们引入了加速延迟接受算法,它的运行方式与 DA 算法类似,但排除了肯定会被拒绝的提议。加速延迟接受算法能输出与 DA 算法相同的稳定匹配结果,但效率更高:它能在极少数回合内终止,所需的提议数量也极少,而且最终配对匹配的时间不会晚于 DA 算法。
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Coarse Descriptions and Cautious Preferences 粗略的描述和谨慎的偏好
Pub Date : 2024-09-09 DOI: arxiv-2409.06054
Evan Piermont, Marcus Pivato
We consider a model where an agent is must choose between alternatives thateach provide only an imprecise description of the world (e.g. linguisticexpressions). The set of alternatives is closed under logical conjunction anddisjunction, but not necessarily negation. (Formally: it is a distributivelattice, but not necessarily a Boolean algebra). In our main result, eachalternative is identified with a subset of an (endogenously defined) statespace, and two axioms characterize maximin decision making. This means: fromthe agent's preferences over alternatives, we derive a preference order on theendogenous state space, such that alternatives are ranked in terms of theirworst outcomes.
我们考虑这样一个模型,即代理人必须在每一个都只提供了对世界的不精确描述(如语言表达)的备选方案中做出选择。备选方案集在逻辑联结和反联结下是封闭的,但不一定是否定的。(形式上:它是一个分布格,但不一定是布尔代数)。在我们的主要结果中,每个备选方案都与一个(内生定义的)状态空间的一个子集相一致,最大化决策有两个公理。这意味着:根据代理人对备选方案的偏好,我们可以在内生状态空间上推导出一个偏好顺序,这样备选方案就会按照其最坏的结果进行排序。
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Obvious Strategy-proofness with Respect to a Partition 关于分区的明显策略证明性
Pub Date : 2024-09-09 DOI: arxiv-2409.05315
R. Pablo Arribillaga, Jordi Massó, Alejandro Neme
We define and study obvious strategy-proofness with respect to a partition ofthe set of agents. It encompasses strategy-proofness as a special case when thepartition is the coarsest one and obvious strategy-proofness when the partitionis the finest. For any partition, it falls between these two extremes. Weestablish two general properties of this new notion and apply it to the simpleanonymous voting problem with two alternatives and strict preferences.
我们定义并研究了代理集分区的明显策略证明性。当分区是最粗糙的分区时,它包括作为特例的策略防错;当分区是最精细的分区时,它包括明显的策略防错。对于任何一个分区,它都介于这两个极端之间。我们建立了这个新概念的两个一般属性,并将其应用于有两个备选方案和严格偏好的简单匿名投票问题。
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Quantum Volunteer's Dilemma 量子志愿者的困境
Pub Date : 2024-09-09 DOI: arxiv-2409.05708
Dax Enshan Koh, Kaavya Kumar, Siong Thye Goh
The volunteer's dilemma is a well-known game in game theory that models theconflict players face when deciding whether to volunteer for a collectivebenefit, knowing that volunteering incurs a personal cost. In this work, weintroduce a quantum variant of the classical volunteer's dilemma, generalizingit by allowing players to utilize quantum strategies. Employing theEisert-Wilkens-Lewenstein quantization framework, we analyze a multiplayerquantum volunteer's dilemma scenario with an arbitrary number of players, wherethe cost of volunteering is shared equally among the volunteers. We deriveanalytical expressions for the players' expected payoffs and demonstrate thequantum game's advantage over the classical game. In particular, we prove thatthe quantum volunteer's dilemma possesses symmetric Nash equilibria with largerexpected payoffs compared to the unique symmetric Nash equilibrium of theclassical game, wherein players use mixed strategies. Furthermore, we show thatthe quantum Nash equilibria we identify are Pareto optimal. Our findings revealdistinct dynamics in volunteer's dilemma scenarios when players adhere toquantum rules, underscoring a strategic advantage of decision-making in quantumsettings.
志愿者困境是博弈论中一个著名的博弈,它模拟了玩家在决定是否为集体利益志愿服务时所面临的冲突,因为他们知道志愿服务需要付出个人代价。在这项研究中,我们引入了经典志愿者困境的量子变体,通过允许博弈者使用量子策略对其进行概括。我们采用艾瑟特-威尔肯斯-莱文斯坦量子化框架,分析了一个多人量子志愿者困境场景,该场景有任意数量的参与者,志愿者的志愿服务成本在志愿者之间均摊。我们推导出了玩家预期收益的分析表达式,并证明了量子博弈相对于经典博弈的优势。特别是,我们证明了量子志愿者困境与经典博弈中唯一的对称纳什均衡相比,具有较大的预期收益。此外,我们还证明了我们确定的量子纳什均衡是帕累托最优的。我们的发现揭示了当博弈者遵守量子规则时,志愿者两难情景中的不同动态,强调了量子环境中决策的战略优势。
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Centralized Selection with Preferences in the Presence of Biases 在存在偏差的情况下进行有偏好的集中选择
Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI: arxiv-2409.04897
L. Elisa Celis, Amit Kumar, Nisheeth K. Vishnoi, Andrew Xu
This paper considers the scenario in which there are multiple institutions,each with a limited capacity for candidates, and candidates, each withpreferences over the institutions. A central entity evaluates the utility ofeach candidate to the institutions, and the goal is to select candidates foreach institution in a way that maximizes utility while also considering thecandidates' preferences. The paper focuses on the setting in which candidatesare divided into multiple groups and the observed utilities of candidates insome groups are biased--systematically lower than their true utilities. Thefirst result is that, in these biased settings, prior algorithms can lead toselections with sub-optimal true utility and significant discrepancies in thefraction of candidates from each group that get their preferred choices.Subsequently, an algorithm is presented along with proof that it producesselections that achieve near-optimal group fairness with respect to preferenceswhile also nearly maximizing the true utility under distributional assumptions.Further, extensive empirical validation of these results in real-world andsynthetic settings, in which the distributional assumptions may not hold, arepresented.
本文考虑了这样一种情况:有多个机构,每个机构对候选人的能力都是有限的,而每个候选人都对机构有偏好。一个中心实体会评估每个候选人对院校的效用,目标是在考虑候选人偏好的同时,以效用最大化的方式为每个院校选择候选人。本文的研究重点是这样一种情况,即考生被分为多个组别,而某些组别中考生的观测效用是有偏差的--系统性地低于他们的真实效用。本文的第一个结果是,在这些有偏差的环境中,先验算法可能会导致真实效用低于最优的选择,并且每个组中获得其偏好选择的候选人比例存在显著差异。随后,本文提出了一种算法,并证明该算法产生的选择在偏好方面实现了接近最优的组公平性,同时在分布假设下也几乎实现了真实效用的最大化。此外,本文还介绍了这些结果在现实世界和合成环境中的广泛经验验证,在这些环境中,分布假设可能不成立。
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Algorithmic Collusion Without Threats 无威胁的算法合作
Pub Date : 2024-09-06 DOI: arxiv-2409.03956
Eshwar Ram Arunachaleswaran, Natalie Collina, Sampath Kannan, Aaron Roth, Juba Ziani
There has been substantial recent concern that pricing algorithms might learnto ``collude.'' Supra-competitive prices can emerge as a Nash equilibrium ofrepeated pricing games, in which sellers play strategies which threaten topunish their competitors who refuse to support high prices, and thesestrategies can be automatically learned. In fact, a standard economic intuitionis that supra-competitive prices emerge from either the use of threats, or afailure of one party to optimize their payoff. Is this intuition correct? Wouldpreventing threats in algorithmic decision-making prevent supra-competitiveprices when sellers are optimizing for their own revenue? No. We show thatsupra-competitive prices can emerge even when both players are using algorithmswhich do not encode threats, and which optimize for their own revenue. We studysequential pricing games in which a first mover deploys an algorithm and then asecond mover optimizes within the resulting environment. We show that if thefirst mover deploys any algorithm with a no-regret guarantee, and then thesecond mover even approximately optimizes within this now static environment,monopoly-like prices arise. The result holds for any no-regret learningalgorithm deployed by the first mover and for any pricing policy of the secondmover that obtains them profit at least as high as a random pricing would --and hence the result applies even when the second mover is optimizing onlywithin a space of non-responsive pricing distributions which are incapable ofencoding threats. In fact, there exists a set of strategies, neither of whichexplicitly encode threats that form a Nash equilibrium of the simultaneouspricing game in algorithm space, and lead to near monopoly prices. Thissuggests that the definition of ``algorithmic collusion'' may need to beexpanded, to include strategies without explicitly encoded threats.
最近,定价算法可能学会 "垄断 "的问题引起了广泛关注。超竞争价格可以作为重复定价博弈的纳什均衡而出现,在这种博弈中,卖方采取的策略是威胁杀死拒绝支持高价的竞争对手,而这种策略可以自动学习。事实上,一个标准的经济学直觉是,超竞争价格的出现要么是由于威胁的使用,要么是由于一方未能优化其报酬。这种直觉正确吗?在算法决策中防止威胁会阻止卖方为自己的收益最优化而产生超竞争价格吗?我们的研究表明,即使双方都使用不包含威胁的算法,并为自己的收益进行优化,也会出现超竞争价格。我们研究了后继定价博弈,在这种博弈中,先行者部署一种算法,然后后继者在由此产生的环境中进行优化。我们的研究表明,如果第一推动者部署任何具有无悔保证的算法,然后这些第二推动者在现在的静态环境中进行近似优化,就会出现类似垄断的价格。这个结果适用于第一推动者部署的任何无悔学习算法,也适用于第二推动者的任何定价政策,只要这些政策能让他们获得至少与随机定价一样高的利润--因此,即使第二推动者只是在无法编码威胁的无响应定价分布空间内进行优化,这个结果也是适用的。事实上,存在一组策略,它们都没有明确地编码威胁,在算法空间中形成了同时定价博弈的纳什均衡,并导致接近垄断的价格。这表明 "算法合谋 "的定义可能需要扩展,以包括没有明确编码威胁的策略。
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Uniform price auction with quantity constraints 有数量限制的统一价格拍卖
Pub Date : 2024-09-06 DOI: arxiv-2409.04047
Kiho Yoon
We study the equilibria of uniform price auctions where bidders have flatdemands up to their respective quantity constraints. We present an iterativeprocedure that systematically finds a Nash equilibrium outcome undersemi-complete information as well as a novel ascending auction under incompleteinformation that has this outcome as a dominant strategy equilibrium. Demandreduction and low price equilibrium may occur since it is sometimesadvantageous for a bidder to give up some of his/her demand and get theremaining demand at a low price rather than to get his/her entire demand at ahigher price.
我们研究了均匀价格拍卖的均衡,在均匀价格拍卖中,投标人在各自的数量限制下有统一要求。我们提出了一种迭代过程,它能系统地找到半完全信息下的纳什均衡结果,以及一种新的不完全信息下的升序拍卖,这种拍卖结果是一种占优策略均衡。需求减少和低价均衡可能会出现,因为有时出价人放弃部分需求并以低价获得剩余需求比以高价获得全部需求更有利。
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Optimal allocations with capacity constrained verification 能力受限验证的最优分配
Pub Date : 2024-09-03 DOI: arxiv-2409.02031
Albin Erlanson, Andreas Kleiner
A principal has $m$ identical objects to allocate among a group of $n$agents. Objects are desirable and the principal's value of assigning an objectto an agent is the agent's private information. The principal can verify up to$k$ agents, where $k
委托人有 $m$ 相同的物品要分配给一组 $n$ 代理人。对象是可取的,委托人将对象分配给代理人的价值是代理人的私人信息。委托人最多可以验证 $k$ 代理人,其中 $k
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Objective Weights for Scoring: The Automatic Democratic Method 评分的客观权重:自动民主法
Pub Date : 2024-09-03 DOI: arxiv-2409.02087
Chris Tofallis
When comparing performance (of products, services, entities, etc.), multipleattributes are involved. This paper deals with a way of weighting theseattributes when one is seeking an overall score. It presents an objectiveapproach to generating the weights in a scoring formula which avoids personaljudgement. The first step is to find the maximum possible score for eachassessed entity. These upper bound scores are found using Data EnvelopmentAnalysis. In the second step the weights in the scoring formula are found byregressing the unique DEA scores on the attribute data. Reasons for using leastsquares and avoiding other distance measures are given. The method is tested ondata where the true scores and weights are known. The method enables theconstruction of an objective scoring formula which has been generated from thedata arising from all assessed entities and is, in that sense, democratic.
在比较(产品、服务、实体等)性能时,会涉及多个属性。本文探讨了在寻求总体得分时如何对这些属性进行加权。它提出了一种在评分公式中生成权重的客观方法,避免了个人判断。第一步是为每个被评估实体找到可能的最高得分。这些上限分数是通过数据包络分析法找到的。第二步,通过对属性数据的独特 DEA 分数进行回归,找到评分公式中的权重。给出了使用最小二乘法而避免使用其他距离测量方法的原因。该方法在已知真实得分和权重的数据上进行了测试。该方法能够构建一个客观的评分公式,该公式由所有被评估实体的数据生成,从这个意义上说是民主的。
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On Mechanism Underlying Algorithmic Collusion 论算法串通的内在机制
Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI: arxiv-2409.01147
Zhang Xu, Wei Zhao
Two issues of algorithmic collusion are addressed in this paper. First, weshow that in a general class of symmetric games, including Prisoner's Dilemma,Bertrand competition, and any (nonlinear) mixture of first and second priceauction, only (strict) Nash Equilibrium (NE) is stochastically stable.Therefore, the tacit collusion is driven by failure to learn NE due toinsufficient learning, instead of learning some strategies to sustain collusiveoutcomes. Second, we study how algorithms adapt to collusion in realsimulations with insufficient learning. Extensive explorations in early stagesand discount factors inflates the Q-value, which interrupts the sequential andalternative price undercut and leads to bilateral rebound. The process isiterated, making the price curves like Edgeworth cycles. When both explorationrate and Q-value decrease, algorithms may bilaterally rebound to relativelyhigh common price level by coincidence, and then get stuck. Finally, weaccommodate our reasoning to simulation outcomes in the literature, includingoptimistic initialization, market design and algorithm design.
本文探讨了算法合谋的两个问题。首先,我们证明了在一般对称博弈中,包括囚徒困境、伯特兰德竞争和任何(非线性)第一和第二价格扣除的混合博弈中,只有(严格的)纳什均衡(NE)是随机稳定的。因此,默契串通是由于学习不足而无法学习纳什均衡,而不是学习一些策略来维持串通结果。其次,我们研究了算法如何在学习不足的真实模拟中适应合谋。在早期阶段的大量探索和折扣因素会使 Q 值膨胀,从而中断连续和替代性的压价,导致双边反弹。这一过程不断重复,使得价格曲线像埃奇沃斯循环一样。当探索率和 Q 值都下降时,算法可能会巧合地双边反弹到相对较高的共同价格水平,然后陷入僵局。最后,我们将我们的推理与文献中的模拟结果相适应,包括乐观的初始化、市场设计和算法设计。
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