3 papers
cs.AI2026
Revealing Positive and Negative Role Models to Help People Make Good Decisions
Avrim Blum, Keziah Naggita, Matthew R. Walter +1
We consider a setting where agents take action by following their role models in a social network, and study strategies for a social planner to help agents by revealing whether the…
cs.GT2024
Equilibria of Data Marketplaces with Privacy-Aware Sellers under Endogenous Privacy Costs
Diptangshu Sen, Jingyan Wang, Juba Ziani
We study a two-sided online data ecosystem comprised of an online platform, users on the platform, and downstream learners or data buyers. The learners can buy user data on the pla…
cs.GT2024
Producers Equilibria and Dynamics in Engagement-Driven Recommender Systems
Krishna Acharya, Varun Vangala, Jingyan Wang +1
Online platforms such as YouTube, Instagram heavily rely on recommender systems to decide what content to present to users. Producers, in turn, often create content that is likely…