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Minimax-Optimal Online Contract Design with Unrestricted Bounded Contracts
Rui Ai, David Simchi-Levi, Han Zhong
We study repeated contract design when a principal observes outcomes but not the actions that generate them. The principal may use any bounded outcome-contingent payment vector, an…
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Interaction Is Not Necessary for Order-Optimal 1-Bit Mean Estimation
Jiachen Hu, Han Zhong
This paper is concerned with one-bit mean estimation, where each independent sample is represented by a single binary message. We consider distributions on with mean i…