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Polynomial-Time Approximation Schemes via Utility Alignment: Unit-Demand Pricing and More
Robin Bowers, Marius Garbea, Emmanouil Pountourakis +1
This paper derives polynomial-time approximation schemes for several NP-hard stochastic optimization problems from the algorithmic mechanism design and operations research literatu…
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Combinatorial Markov Search
Robin Bowers, Elias Lindgren, Bo Waggoner
A decisionmaker faces alternatives, each of which represents a potential reward. After investing costly resources into investigating the alternatives, the decisionmaker may sel…