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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 +42
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…
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…
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…
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…