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Truthful Reverse Auctions for Adaptive Selection via Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits
Pronoy Patra, Sankarshan Damle, Manisha Padala +1
We study the problem of selecting large language models (LLMs) for user queries in settings where multiple LLM providers submit the cost of solving a query. From the users' perspec…
Centralization in Proof-of-Stake Blockchains: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Bootstrapping Protocols
Varul Srivastava, Sankarshan Damle, Sujit Gujar
Proof-of-stake (PoS) has emerged as a natural alternative to the resource-intensive Proof-of-Work (PoW) blockchain, as was recently seen with the Ethereum Merge. PoS-based blockcha…
No Transaction Fees? No Problem! Achieving Fairness in Transaction Fee Mechanism Design
Sankarshan Damle, Varul Srivastava, Sujit Gujar
The recently proposed Transaction Fee Mechanism (TFM) literature studies the strategic interaction between the miner of a block and the transaction creators (or users) in a blockch…
Analyzing Crowdfunding of Public Projects Under Dynamic Beliefs
Sankarshan Damle, Sujit Gujar
In the last decade, social planners have used crowdfunding to raise funds for public projects. As these public projects are non-excludable, the beneficiaries may free-ride. Thus, t…
Designing Redistribution Mechanisms for Reducing Transaction Fees in Blockchains
Sankarshan Damle, Manisha Padala, Sujit Gujar
Blockchains deploy Transaction Fee Mechanisms (TFMs) to determine which user transactions to include in blocks and determine their payments (i.e., transaction fees). Increasing dem…
Combinatorial Civic Crowdfunding with Budgeted Agents: Welfare Optimality at Equilibrium and Optimal Deviation
Sankarshan Damle, Manisha Padala, Sujit Gujar
Civic Crowdfunding (CC) uses the ``power of the crowd'' to garner contributions towards public projects. As these projects are non-excludable, agents may prefer to ``free-ride,'' r…