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Evidence Markets
Safwan Hossain, Gabriel Andrade, Chengqi Zang +1
Modern prediction markets face two limitations that restrict their applicability in a range of settings:~(i)~they reveal what the crowd believes but not the evidence or reasoning b…
Learning to Strategically Acquire Resources in Competition
Safwan Hossain, Mirah Shi, Andrew Bennett +4
We consider multiple agents competing to acquire some costly divisible resource (e.g. shares of a financial asset, compute resources, etc.) over time. Leveraging a standard model f…
The Prosocial Ranking Challenge: Reducing Polarization on Social Media without Sacrificing Engagement
Jonathan Stray, Ian Baker, George Beknazar-Yuzbashev +41
We report the first direct comparisons of multiple alternative social media algorithms on multiple platforms on outcomes of societal interest. We used a browser extension to modify…
Learning to Play Multi-Follower Bayesian Stackelberg Games
Gerson Personnat, Tao Lin, Safwan Hossain +1
In a multi-follower Bayesian Stackelberg game, a leader plays a mixed strategy over actions to which followers, each having one of possible private types, best res…
Information Design With Large Language Models
Paul Duetting, Safwan Hossain, Tao Lin +4
Information design is typically studied through the lens of Bayesian signaling, where signals shape beliefs purely based on their correlation with the true state of the world. Howe…
Strategic Hypothesis Testing
Safwan Hossain, Yatong Chen, Yiling Chen
We examine hypothesis testing within a principal-agent framework, where a strategic agent, holding private beliefs about the effectiveness of a product, submits data to a principal…
Strategic Classification With Externalities
Safwan Hossain, Evi Micha, Yiling Chen +1
We propose a new variant of the strategic classification problem: a principal reveals a classifier, and agents report their (possibly manipulated) features to be classified. Mo…
Social Environment Design
Edwin Zhang, Sadie Zhao, Tonghan Wang +6
Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds promise as a technology that can be used to improve government and economic policy-making. This paper proposes a new research agenda towards this…
Multi-Sender Persuasion: A Computational Perspective
Safwan Hossain, Tonghan Wang, Tao Lin +3
We consider the multi-sender persuasion problem: multiple players with informational advantage signal to convince a single self-interested actor to take certain actions. This probl…
A Persuasive Approach to Combating Misinformation
Safwan Hossain, Andjela Mladenovic, Yiling Chen +1
Bayesian Persuasion is proposed as a tool for social media platforms to combat the spread of misinformation. Since platforms can use machine learning to predict the popularity and…