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Auctions with Price Predictions
Muthu Sundar, Alec Sun, Siddharth Prasad +1
We design auctions for the sale of a single item with unlimited supply given a single prediction of the revenue-maximizing uniform price. This departs from prior work on auctions w…
Deterministic Metric Distortion of Top-2 Voting
Alec Sun, Daniel Zhu
We give tight bounds on the metric distortion of top-2 deterministic voting mechanisms. We first exploit the restrictive structure of top-2 voting to reduce the space of worst-case…
The price of uncertainty for social consensus
Yunzhe Bai, Alec Sun
How hard is it to achieve consensus in a social network under uncertainty? In this paper we model this problem as a social graph of agents where each vertex is initially colored re…
How to sell a service with uncertain outcomes
Krishnamurthy Iyer, Alec Sun, Haifeng Xu +1
Motivated by the recent popularity of machine learning training services, we introduce a contract design problem in which a provider sells a service that results in an outcome of u…