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Cold-Start Pricing of LLM Services under Two-Sided Learning
Zhicheng Du, Pinyan Lu, Keyu Wang +3
Online large language model (LLM) services face a pricing cold start: providers initially lack the historical data and user information needed for precise pricing, while users' wil…
Auctions with Contract Design
Xiaolin Bu, Jiarong Jin, Junzhu Ke +6
We consider a new auction model where the bidders' utilities and the auctioneer's revenue depend on a quality factor of the transaction determined by costly and strategic investmen…
A Unified Framework of Multi-Stage Multi-Winner Voting: An Axiomatic Exploration
Shengjie Gong, Lingxiao Huang, Shuangping Huang +5
Multi-winner voting plays a crucial role in selecting representative committees based on voter preferences. Previous research has predominantly focused on single-stage voting rules…
Nash Equilibria of Two-round Auctions
Chulong Zhong, Xiang Yan, Yuyi Wang +2
In a two-round auction, a subset of bidders is selected (probabilistically), according to their bids in the first round, for the second round, where they can increase their bids. W…