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.GT2025
On-Off Systems with Strategic Customers
Yanwei Sun, Zhe Liu, Chiwei Yan
Motivated by applications such as urban traffic control and make-to-order systems, we study a fluid model of a single-server, on-off system that can accommodate multiple queues. Th…