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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…
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 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…
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…