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On Fair Selection in the Presence of Implicit and Differential Variance
Vitalii Emelianov, Nicolas Gast, Krishna P. Gummadi +1
Discrimination in selection problems such as hiring or college admission is often explained by implicit bias from the decision maker against disadvantaged demographic groups. In th…
Selfish & Opaque Transaction Ordering in the Bitcoin Blockchain: The Case for Chain Neutrality
Johnnatan Messias, Mohamed Alzayat, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran +3
Most public blockchain protocols, including the popular Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains, do not formally specify the order in which miners should select transactions from the pool…
Modeling Coordinated vs. P2P Mining: An Analysis of Inefficiency and Inequality in Proof-of-Work Blockchains
Mohamed Alzayat, Johnnatan Messias, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran +2
We study efficiency in a proof-of-work blockchain with non-zero latencies, focusing in particular on the (inequality in) individual miners' efficiencies. Prior work attributed diff…
Scalable Optimal Classifiers for Adversarial Settings under Uncertainty
Patrick Loiseau, Benjamin Roussillon
We consider the problem of finding optimal classifiers in an adversarial setting where the class-1 data is generated by an attacker whose objective is not known to the defender --…
Asymptotic Degradation of Linear Regression Estimates With Strategic Data Sources
Benjamin Roussillon, Nicolas Gast, Patrick Loiseau +1
We consider the problem of linear regression from strategic data sources with a public good component, i.e., when data is provided by strategic agents who seek to minimize an indiv…
Colonel Blotto Games with Favoritism: Competitions with Pre-allocations and Asymmetric Effectiveness
Dong Quan Vu, Patrick Loiseau
We introduce the Colonel Blotto game with favoritism, an extension of the famous Colonel Blotto game where the winner-determination rule is generalized to include pre-allocations a…