3 papers
cs.DS2026
Pricing Pandora's Boxes: Revenue Maximization in Sequential Information Acquisition
Shuchi Chawla, Dimitris Christou, Trung Dang +1
We study a mechanism design problem in which a seller controls access to information about a set of stochastic alternatives, and a buyer sequentially acquires information in order…
cs.DS2025
Commitment Gap via Correlation Gap
Shuchi Chawla, Dimitris Christou, Trung Dang
Selection problems with costly information, dating back to Weitzman's Pandora's Box problem, have received much attention recently. We study the general model of Costly Information…
cs.DS2025
Combinatorial Selection with Costly Information
Shuchi Chawla, Dimitris Christou, Amit Harlev +1
We consider a class of optimization problems over stochastic variables where the algorithm can learn information about the value of any variable through a series of costly steps; w…