5 papers
Beyond Revenue and Welfare: Counterfactual Analysis of Spectrum Auctions with Application to Canada's 3800MHz Allocation
Sara Jalili Shani, Kris Joseph, Michael B. McNally +1
Spectrum auctions are the primary mechanism through which governments allocate scarce radio frequencies, with outcomes that shape competition, coverage, and innovation in telecommu…
Personalized Recommendations via Active Utility-based Pairwise Sampling
Bahar Boroomand, James R. Wright
Recommender systems play a critical role in enhancing user experience by providing personalized suggestions based on user preferences. Traditional approaches often rely on explicit…
Approximating Nash Equilibria in General-Sum Games via Meta-Learning
David Sychrovský, Christopher Solinas, Revan MacQueen +4
Nash equilibrium is perhaps the best-known solution concept in game theory. Such a solution assigns a strategy to each player which offers no incentive to unilaterally deviate. Whi…
Model Selection for Average Reward RL with Application to Utility Maximization in Repeated Games
Alireza Masoumian, James R. Wright
In standard RL, a learner attempts to learn an optimal policy for a Markov Decision Process whose structure (e.g. state space) is known. In online model selection, a learner attemp…
Guarantees for Self-Play in Multiplayer Games via Polymatrix Decomposability
Revan MacQueen, James R. Wright
Self-play is a technique for machine learning in multi-agent systems where a learning algorithm learns by interacting with copies of itself. Self-play is useful for generating larg…