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Combinatorial Bernoulli Factories
Rad Niazadeh, Renato Paes Leme, Jon Schneider
A Bernoulli factory is an algorithmic procedure for exact sampling of certain random variables having only Bernoulli access to their parameters. Bernoulli access to a parameter $p…
Contracts under Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection
Guru Guruganesh, Jon Schneider, Joshua Wang
In the classical principal-agent problem, a principal must design a contract to incentivize an agent to perform an action on behalf of the principal. We study the classical princip…
Learning Product Rankings Robust to Fake Users
Negin Golrezaei, Vahideh Manshadi, Jon Schneider +1
In many online platforms, customers' decisions are substantially influenced by product rankings as most customers only examine a few top-ranked products. Concurrently, such platfor…
Reserve Price Optimization for First Price Auctions
Zhe Feng, Sébastien Lahaie, Jon Schneider +1
The display advertising industry has recently transitioned from second- to first-price auctions as its primary mechanism for ad allocation and pricing. In light of this, publishers…
Variable Decomposition for Prophet Inequalities and Optimal Ordering
Allen Liu, Renato Paes Leme, Martin Pal +2
We introduce a new decomposition technique for random variables that maps a generic instance of the prophet inequalities problem to a new instance where all but a constant number o…
Optimal Contextual Pricing and Extensions
Allen Liu, Renato Paes Leme, Jon Schneider
In the contextual pricing problem a seller repeatedly obtains products described by an adversarially chosen feature vector in and only observes the purchasing decisi…