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Supply-Side Equilibria in Recommender Systems
Meena Jagadeesan, Nikhil Garg, Jacob Steinhardt
Algorithmic recommender systems such as Spotify and Netflix affect not only consumer behavior but also producer incentives. Producers seek to create content that will be shown by t…
Strategic Ranking
Lydia T. Liu, Nikhil Garg, Christian Borgs
Strategic classification studies the design of a classifier robust to the manipulation of input by strategic individuals. However, the existing literature does not consider the eff…
Test-optional Policies: Overcoming Strategic Behavior and Informational Gaps
Zhi Liu, Nikhil Garg
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, more than 500 US-based colleges and universities went "test-optional" for admissions and promised that they would not penalize applicants for not subm…
Combatting Gerrymandering with Ranked Choice Voting: An Experimental Analysis of Multi-member Districts in the United States
Nikhil Garg, Wes Gurnee, David Rothschild +1
Every representative democracy must specify a mechanism under which voters choose their representatives. The most common mechanism in the United States -- Winner takes all single-m…
Who is in Your Top Three? Optimizing Learning in Elections with Many Candidates
Nikhil Garg, Lodewijk Gelauff, Sukolsak Sakshuwong +1
Elections and opinion polls often have many candidates, with the aim to either rank the candidates or identify a small set of winners according to voters' preferences. In practice,…
Driver Surge Pricing
Nikhil Garg, Hamid Nazerzadeh
Ride-hailing marketplaces like Uber and Lyft use dynamic pricing, often called surge, to balance the supply of available drivers with the demand for rides. We study driver-side pay…
Markets for Public Decision-making
Nikhil Garg, Ashish Goel, Benjamin Plaut
A public decision-making problem consists of a set of issues, each with multiple possible alternatives, and a set of competing agents, each with a preferred alternative for each is…