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Statistical Cost Sharing
Eric Balkanski, Umar Syed, Sergei Vassilvitskii
We study the cost sharing problem for cooperative games in situations where the cost function is not available via oracle queries, but must instead be derived from data, repres…
A Field Guide to Personalized Reserve Prices
Renato Paes Leme, Martin Pal, Sergei Vassilvitskii
We study the question of setting and testing reserve prices in single item auctions when the bidders are not identical. At a high level, there are two generalizations of the standa…
Value of Targeting
Kshipra Bhawalkar, Patrick Hummel, Sergei Vassilvitskii
We undertake a formal study of the value of targeting data to an advertiser. As expected, this value is increasing in the utility difference between realizations of the targeting d…
Social Networks and Stable Matchings in the Job Market
Esteban Arcaute, Sergei Vassilvitskii
For most people, social contacts play an integral part in finding a new job. As observed by Granovetter's seminal study, the proportion of jobs obtained through social contacts is…