4 papers
Zeroth-Order Stackelberg Control in Combinatorial Congestion Games
Saeed Masiha, Sepehr Elahi, Negar Kiyavash +1
We study Stackelberg (leader--follower) tuning of network parameters (tolls, capacities, incentives) in combinatorial congestion games, where selfish users choose discrete routes (…
Neighborhood-Aware Graph Labeling Problem
Mohammad Shahverdikondori, Sepehr Elahi, Patrick Thiran +1
Motivated by optimization oracles in bandits with network interference, we study the Neighborhood-Aware Graph Labeling (NAGL) problem. Given a graph , a label set of siz…
Learn to Vaccinate: Combining Structure Learning and Effective Vaccination for Epidemic and Outbreak Control
Sepehr Elahi, Paula Mürmann, Patrick Thiran
The Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible (SIS) model is a widely used model for the spread of information and infectious diseases, particularly non-immunizing ones, on a graph. Given a…
Fast Proxy Experiment Design for Causal Effect Identification
Sepehr Elahi, Sina Akbari, Jalal Etesami +2
Identifying causal effects is a key problem of interest across many disciplines. The two long-standing approaches to estimate causal effects are observational and experimental (ran…