9 papers
Profit Reallocation Mechanisms in Tree-based Data Trading
Yunxuan Ma, Wu Xin, Jichen Li +2
Markets for data promise to unlock its economic value, yet in practice they remain far less active than expected---one reason is that those who supply data are not rewarded for the…
Incentivizing Data Trading via Profit Reallocation
Yunxuan Ma, Wu Xin, Jichen Li +5
Data trading is a central approach to data circulation, yet data markets remain far less active than expected. A primary bottleneck is the lack of effective economic incentives. Ex…
Learning Truthful Mechanisms without Discretization
Yunxuan Ma, Siqiang Wang, Zhijian Duan +2
This paper introduces TEDI (Truthful, Expressive, and Dimension-Insensitive approach), a discretization-free algorithm to learn truthful and utility-maximizing mechanisms. Existing…
Mechanism Design for Auctions with Externalities on Budgets
Yusen Zheng, Yukun Cheng, Chenyang Xu +1
This paper studies mechanism design for auctions with externalities on budgets, a novel setting where the budgets that bidders commit are adjusted due to the externality of the com…
Survey on Strategic Mining in Blockchain: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
Jichen Li, Lijia Xie, Hanting Huang +5
Strategic mining attacks, such as selfish mining, exploit blockchain consensus protocols by deviating from honest behavior to maximize rewards. Markov Decision Process (MDP) analys…
Networked Digital Public Goods Games with Heterogeneous Players and Convex Costs
Yukun Cheng, Xiaotie Deng, Yunxuan Ma
In the digital age, resources such as open-source software and publicly accessible databases form a crucial category of digital public goods, providing extensive benefits for Inter…
Game Theory Meets Large Language Models: A Systematic Survey with Taxonomy and New Frontiers
Haoran Sun, Yusen Wu, Peng Wang +4
Game theory is a foundational framework for analyzing strategic interactions, and its intersection with large language models (LLMs) is a rapidly growing field. However, existing s…
Sealed-bid Auctions on Blockchain with Timed Commitment Outsourcing
Jichen Li, Yuanchen Tang, Jing Chen +2
Sealed-bid auctions play a crucial role in blockchain ecosystems. Previous works introduced viable blockchain sealed-bid auction protocols, leveraging timed commitments for bid enc…
Mechanism Design for Exchange Markets
Yusen Zheng, Yukun Cheng, Chenyang Xu +1
Exchange markets are a significant type of market economy, in which each agent holds a budget and certain (divisible) resources available for trading. Most research on equilibrium…