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A Duality-Based Unified Approach to Bayesian Mechanism Design
Yang Cai, Nikhil R. Devanur, S. Matthew Weinberg
We provide a unified view of many recent developments in Bayesian mechanism design, including the black-box reductions of Cai et al. [CDW13b], simple auctions for additive buyers […
Learning Safe Policies with Expert Guidance
Jessie Huang, Fa Wu, Doina Precup +1
We propose a framework for ensuring safe behavior of a reinforcement learning agent when the reward function may be difficult to specify. In order to do this, we rely on the existe…
The Best of Both Worlds: Asymptotically Efficient Mechanisms with a Guarantee on the Expected Gains-From-Trade
Moshe Babaioff, Yang Cai, Yannai A. Gonczarowski +1
The seminal impossibility result of Myerson and Satterthwaite (1983) states that for bilateral trade, there is no mechanism that is individually rational (IR), incentive compatible…
Third-Party Data Providers Ruin Simple Mechanisms
Yang Cai, Federico Echenique, Hu Fu +3
Motivated by the growing prominence of third-party data providers in online marketplaces, this paper studies the impact of the presence of third-party data providers on mechanism d…