3 papers
cs.AI2025
LLM-Powered Preference Elicitation in Combinatorial Assignment
Ermis Soumalias, Yanchen Jiang, Kehang Zhu +3
We study the potential of large language models (LLMs) as proxies for humans to simplify preference elicitation (PE) in combinatorial assignment. While traditional PE methods rely…
cs.GT2025
The Pseudo-Dimension of Contracts
Paul Duetting, Michal Feldman, Tomasz Ponitka +1
Algorithmic contract design studies scenarios where a principal incentivizes an agent to exert effort on her behalf. In this work, we focus on settings where the agent's type is dr…
cs.GT2024
Prices, Bids, Values: One ML-Powered Combinatorial Auction to Rule Them All
Ermis Soumalias, Jakob Heiss, Jakob Weissteiner +1
We study the design of iterative combinatorial auctions (ICAs). The main challenge in this domain is that the bundle space grows exponentially in the number of items. To address th…