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Algorithmic Expert Aggregation
Wei Tang, Hanrui Zhang
Forecast aggregation aims to combine information from multiple Bayesian experts' forecasts into an aggregate forecast. In much of this literature, however, the aggregate forecast i…
Pricing Query Complexity of Multiplicative Revenue Approximation
Wei Tang, Yifan Wang, Mengxiao Zhang
We study the pricing query complexity of revenue maximization for a single buyer whose private valuation is drawn from an unknown distribution. In this setting, the seller must lea…
Simple and Robust Quality Disclosure: The Power of Quantile Partition
Shipra Agrawal, Yiding Feng, Wei Tang
Quality information on online platforms is often conveyed through simple, percentile-based badges and tiers that remain stable across different market environments. Motivated by th…
No-Regret Online Autobidding Algorithms in First-price Auctions
Yuan Deng, Yilin Li, Wei Tang +1
Automated bidding to optimize online advertising with various constraints, e.g. ROI constraints and budget constraints, is widely adopted by advertisers. A key challenge lies in de…
Explainable Information Design
Yiling Chen, Tao Lin, Wei Tang +1
Optimal signaling schemes in information design (Bayesian persuasion) often involve randomization or disconnected partitions of state space, which might be too intricate to be audi…
Intrinsic Robustness of Prophet Inequality to Strategic Reward Signaling
Wei Tang, Haifeng Xu, Ruimin Zhang +1
Prophet inequality concerns a basic optimal stopping problem and states that simple threshold stopping policies -- i.e., accepting the first reward larger than a certain threshold…