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Signaling in Data Markets via Free Samples
Nivasini Ananthakrishnan, Alireza Fallah, Michael I. Jordan
We study a setting in which a data buyer seeks to estimate an unknown parameter by purchasing samples from one of K data sellers. Each seller has privately known data quality (e.g.…
Fair Allocation in Dynamic Mechanism Design
Alireza Fallah, Michael I. Jordan, Annie Ulichney
We consider a dynamic mechanism design problem where an auctioneer sells an indivisible good to groups of buyers in every round, for a total of rounds. The auctioneer aims to m…
Contract Design With Safety Inspections
Alireza Fallah, Michael I. Jordan
We study the role of regulatory inspections in a contract design problem in which a principal interacts separately with multiple agents. Each agent's hidden action includes a dimen…
Optimal and Differentially Private Data Acquisition: Central and Local Mechanisms
Alireza Fallah, Ali Makhdoumi, Azarakhsh Malekian +1
We consider a platform's problem of collecting data from privacy sensitive users to estimate an underlying parameter of interest. We formulate this question as a Bayesian-optimal m…