8 papers
Beyond Independent Manipulation: Individual Fairness-aware Strategic Classification with Peer Imitation
Xinpeng Lv, Chunyuan Zheng, Yunxin Mao +9
Strategic classification (SC) investigates scenarios where agents manipulate their features to obtain favorable decisions from predictive models. Existing fairness-aware SC approac…
A Lightweight MPC Bidding Framework for Brand Auction Ads
Yuanlong Chen, Bowen Zhu, Bing Xia +1
Brand advertising plays a critical role in building long-term consumer awareness and loyalty, making it a key objective for advertisers across digital platforms. Although real-time…
Scalar-Stepsize Nonuniform Monte Carlo Optimistic Policy Iteration: A Certified Counterexample
Yuanlong Chen
Tsitsiklis proved convergence of Monte Carlo optimistic policy iteration under a uniform update structure and identified nonuniform update frequencies as a delicate obstruction. We…
Beyond Rational Illusion: Behaviorally Realistic Strategic Classification
Xinpeng Lv, Yunxin Mao, Renzhe Xu +11
Strategic classification(SC) studies the interaction between decision models and agents who strategically manipulate their features for favorable outcomes. Existing SC frameworks t…
When Tabular Foundation Models Meet Strategic Tabular Data: A Prior Alignment Approach
Xinpeng Lv, Yunxin Mao, Renzhe Xu +13
Tabular foundation models based on pretrained prior-data fitted networks~(PFNs) have shown strong generalization on diverse tabular tasks, but they are typically designed for \emph…
Partial Fairness Awareness: Belief-Guided Strategic Mechanism for Strategic Agents
Xinpeng Lv, Chunyuan Zheng, Yunxin Mao +8
Strategic machine learning investigates scenarios where agents manipulate their features to receive favorable decisions from predictive models. To address fairness concerns intrins…