3 papers
cs.GT2025
Restricting Entries to All-Pay Contests
Fupeng Sun, Yanwei Sun, Chiwei Yan +1
We study an all-pay contest in which players with low abilities are filtered out before competing for prizes. We consider a setting where the designer admits a certain number of to…
cs.GT2025
The Role of Prescreening in Auctions with Predictions
Yanwei Sun, Fupeng Sun, Chiwei Yan +1
Sellers often prescreen potential bidders, restricting participation to a select group of capable participants. Recent advances in machine learning and generative AI make this stra…
cs.LG2024
Understanding the Training and Generalization of Pretrained Transformer for Sequential Decision Making
Hanzhao Wang, Yu Pan, Fupeng Sun +4
In this paper, we consider the supervised pre-trained transformer for a class of sequential decision-making problems. The class of considered problems is a subset of the general fo…