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The standard way to evaluate language models on subjective tasks is through pairwise comparisons: an annotator chooses the "better" of two responses to a prompt. Leaderboards aggregate these comparisons into a single Bradley-Terry (BT)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Hadi Khalaf , Serena L. Wang , Daniel Halpern , Itai Shapira , Flavio du Pin Calmon , Ariel D. Procaccia

We examine the complexity of computing welfare- and revenue-maximizing equilibria in autobidding second-price auctions subject to return-on-spend (RoS) constraints. We show that computing an autobidding equilibrium that approximates the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ioannis Anagnostides , Ian Gemp , Georgios Piliouras , Kelly Spendlove

We study the problem of efficiently and fairly allocating a set of indivisible goods among agents with identical and additive valuations for the goods. The objective is to maximize the Nash social welfare, which is the geometric mean of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Asei Inoue , Yusuke Kobayashi

We propose a new model for aggregating preferences over a set of indivisible items based on a quantile value. In this model, each agent is endowed with a specific quantile, and the value of a given bundle is defined by the corresponding…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Haris Aziz , Shivika Narang , Mashbat Suzuki

A truthful mechanism for a Bayesian single-item auction results with some ex-ante revenue for the seller, and some ex-ante total surplus for the buyers. We study the Pareto frontier of the set of seller-buyers ex-ante utilities, generated…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Moshe Babaioff , Sijin Chen , Zhaohua Chen , Yiding Feng

We investigate optimal social welfare allocations of $m$ items to $n$ agents with binary additive or submodular valuations. For binary additive valuations, we prove that the set of optimal allocations coincides with the set of so-called…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Taikun Zhu , Kai Jin , Ruixi Luo , Song Cao

We investigate approximately optimal mechanisms in settings where bidders' utility functions are non-linear; specifically, convex, with respect to payments (such settings arise, for instance, in procurement auctions for energy). We provide…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Amy Greenwald , Takehiro Oyakawa , Vasilis Syrgkanis

We provide the first analysis of (deferred acceptance) clock auctions in the learning-augmented framework. These auctions satisfy a unique list of appealing properties, including obvious strategyproofness, transparency, and unconditional…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Vasilis Gkatzelis , Daniel Schoepflin , Xizhi Tan

We study procurement auctions, where an auctioneer seeks to acquire services from strategic sellers with private costs. The quality of services is measured by a submodular function known to the auctioneer. Our goal is to design…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Yuan Deng , Amin Karbasi , Vahab Mirrokni , Renato Paes Leme , Grigoris Velegkas , Song Zuo

Budgets play a significant role in real-world sequential auction markets such as those implemented by internet companies. To maximize the value provided to auction participants, spending is smoothed across auctions so budgets are used for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Vincent Conitzer , Christian Kroer , Eric Sodomka , Nicolas E. Stier-Moses

First price auctions are widely used in government contracts and industrial auctions. In this paper, we consider the Bayesian Nash Equilibrium (BNE) in first price auctions with discrete value distributions. We study the characterization of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Weiran Shen , Zihe Wang , Song Zuo

We study the classic single-item auction setting of Myerson, but under the assumption that the buyers' values for the item are distributed over finite supports. Using strong LP duality and polyhedral theory, we rederive various key results…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Yiannis Giannakopoulos , Johannes Hahn

Equilibrium problems in Bayesian auction games can be described as systems of differential equations. Depending on the model assumptions, these equations might be such that we do not have a rigorous mathematical solution theory. The lack of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Martin Bichler , Stephan B. Lunowa , Matthias Oberlechner , Fabian R. Pieroth , Barbara Wohlmuth

We show that the multiplicative weight update method provides a simple recipe for designing and analyzing optimal Bayesian Incentive Compatible (BIC) auctions, and reduces the time complexity of the problem to pseudo-polynomial in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-12 Anand Bhalgat , Sreenivas Gollapudi , Kamesh Munagala

We introduce a new framework to study the group dynamics and game-theoretic considerations when voters in a committee are allowed to trade votes. This model represents a significant step forward by considering vote-for-vote trades in a…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-06-17 Matthew I. Jones

In this paper, we present the first approximation algorithms for the problem of designing revenue optimal Bayesian incentive compatible auctions when there are multiple (heterogeneous) items and when bidders can have arbitrary demand and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-03-30 Sayan Bhattacharya , Gagan Goel , Sreenivas Gollapudi , Kamesh Munagala

In a typical decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), people organize themselves into a group that is programmatically managed. DAOs can act as bidders in auctions, with a DAO's bid treated by the auctioneer as if it had been submitted…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Maryam Bahrani , Pranav Garimidi , Tim Roughgarden

We study the computational complexity of computing Bayes-Nash equilibria in first-price auctions with discrete value distributions and discrete bidding space, under general subjective beliefs. It is known that such auctions do not always…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Yiannis Giannakopoulos , Alexandros Hollender , Charalampos Kokkalis

We develop polynomial-time algorithms for the fair and efficient allocation of indivisible goods among $n$ agents that have subadditive valuations over the goods. We first consider the Nash social welfare as our objective and design a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Siddharth Barman , Umang Bhaskar , Anand Krishna , Ranjani G. Sundaram

We consider a market in which both suppliers and consumers compete for a product via scalar-parameterized supply offers and demand bids. Scalar-parameterized offers/bids are appealing due to their modeling simplicity and desirable…

General Economics · Economics 2020-03-04 Mariola Ndrio , Khaled Alshehri , Subhonmesh Bose