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Approximate Optimality of Linear Contracts Under Uncertainty
Tal Alon, Paul Dütting, Yingkai Li +1
We consider a hidden-action principal-agent model, in which actions require different amounts of effort, and the agent privately knows his ability that determines his cost of effor…
Optimal Scoring Rules for Multi-dimensional Effort
Jason D. Hartline, Liren Shan, Yingkai Li +1
This paper develops a framework for the design of scoring rules to optimally incentivize an agent to exert a multi-dimensional effort. This framework is a generalization to strateg…
Budget Pacing in Repeated Auctions: Regret and Efficiency without Convergence
Jason Gaitonde, Yingkai Li, Bar Light +2
We study the aggregate welfare and individual regret guarantees of dynamic \emph{pacing algorithms} in the context of repeated auctions with budgets. Such algorithms are commonly u…
Exploration and Incentivizing Participation in Randomized Trials
Yingkai Li, Aleksandrs Slivkins
Participation incentives is a well-known issue inhibiting randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in medicine, as well as a potential cause of user dissatisfaction for RCTs in online p…