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The Strange Case of Privacy in Equilibrium Models
Rachel Cummings, Katrina Ligett, Mallesh M. Pai +1
We study how privacy technologies affect user and advertiser behavior in a simple economic model of targeted advertising. In our model, a consumer first decides whether or not to b…
Coordination Complexity: Small Information Coordinating Large Populations
Rachel Cummings, Katrina Ligett, Jaikumar Radhakrishnan +2
We initiate the study of a quantity that we call coordination complexity. In a distributed optimization problem, the information defining a problem instance is distributed among $n…
Truthful Linear Regression
Rachel Cummings, Stratis Ioannidis, Katrina Ligett
We consider the problem of fitting a linear model to data held by individuals who are concerned about their privacy. Incentivizing most players to truthfully report their data to t…