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We prove the sharp bound for the probability that two experts who have access to different information, represented by different $\sigma$-fields, will give radically different estimates of the probability of an event. This is relevant when…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Krzysztof Burdzy , Soumik Pal

We investigate the behavior of experts who seek to make predictions with maximum impact on an audience. At a known future time, a certain continuous random variable will be realized. A public prediction gradually converges to the outcome,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Amir Ban , Yossi Azar , Yishay Mansour

An informed Advisor and an uninformed Decision-Maker, with conflicting interests, engage in repeated cheap talk communication in always new decision problems. While the Decision-Maker's optimal payoff is attainable in some subgame-perfect…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-08-04 Steven Kivinen , Christoph Kuzmics

Prediction markets provide an efficient means to assess uncertain quantities from forecasters. Traditional and competitive strictly proper scoring rules have been shown to incentivize players to provide truthful probabilistic forecasts.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-20 SangIn Chun , Ross D. Shachter

We formulate the problem of fake news detection using distributed fact-checkers (agents) with unknown reliability. The stream of news/statements is modeled as an independent and identically distributed binary source (to represent true and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Ashwin Verma , Soheil Mohajer , Behrouz Touri

Agents, some with a bias, decide between undertaking a risky project and a safe alternative based on information about the project's efficiency. Only a part of that information is verifiable. Unbiased agents want to undertake only efficient…

General Economics · Economics 2023-05-12 Aditya Kuvalekar , João Ramos , Johannes Schneider

To improve the reliability and efficiency of Web Software, the Testing Team should be creative and innovative. The experience and intuition of Tester also matters a lot and most often the destructive nature of Tester brings reliable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Kamran Ali , Xia Xiaoling

Complex decision-making systems rarely have direct access to the current state of the world and they instead rely on opinions to form an understanding of what the ground truth could be. Even in problems where experts provide opinions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Noyan C. Sevuktekin , Andrew C. Singer

A test is said to control for type I error if it is unlikely to reject the data-generating process. However, if it is possible to produce stochastic processes at random such that, for all possible future realizations of the data, the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-04-03 Wojciech Olszewski , Alvaro Sandroni

How to combine uncertain information from different sources has been a hot topic for years. However, with respect to ordinal quantum evidences contained in information, there is no any referable work which is able to provide a solution to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Yuanpeng He

Scalable oversight protocols aim to empower evaluators to accurately verify AI models more capable than themselves. However, human evaluators are subject to biases that can lead to systematic errors. We conduct two studies examining the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Gabriel Recchia , Chatrik Singh Mangat , Jinu Nyachhyon , Mridul Sharma , Callum Canavan , Dylan Epstein-Gross , Muhammed Abdulbari

Decision-making methods very often use the technique of comparing alternatives in pairs. In this approach, experts are asked to compare different options, and then a quantitative ranking is created from the results obtained. It is commonly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-21 M. Strada , K. Kułakowski

I study whether and which expert incentives can be provided at what cost when the states of the world become non-contractible, but there is some noisy observation about the states that can be contracted upon. A principal hires an agent to…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-12 Zizhe Xia

As AI systems are used to answer more difficult questions and potentially help create new knowledge, judging the truthfulness of their outputs becomes more difficult and more important. How can we supervise unreliable experts, which have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Julian Michael , Salsabila Mahdi , David Rein , Jackson Petty , Julien Dirani , Vishakh Padmakumar , Samuel R. Bowman

If we use LLMs as judges to evaluate the complex decisions of other LLMs, who or what monitors the judges? Infinite monitoring chains are inevitable whenever we do not know the ground truth of the decisions by experts and we do not want to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel

We study the problem of robust forecast aggregation: combining expert forecasts with provable accuracy guarantees compared to the best possible aggregation of the underlying information. Prior work shows strong impossibility results, e.g.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Rafael Frongillo , Mary Monroe , Eric Neyman , Bo Waggoner

We study the notion of informedness in a client-consultant setting. Using a software simulator, we examine the extent to which it pays off for consultants to provide their clients with advice that is well-informed, or with advice that is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-09-07 Eugen Staab , Martin Caminada

The problem of aggregating expert forecasts is ubiquitous in fields as wide-ranging as machine learning, economics, climate science, and national security. Despite this, our theoretical understanding of this question is fairly shallow. This…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Eric Neyman , Tim Roughgarden

Formal verification entails testing software to ensure it operates as specified. Smart contracts are self-executing contracts with the terms of the agreement directly written into lines of code. They run on blockchain platforms and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Rene Davila , Everardo Barcenas , Rocio Aldeco-Perez

A long noted difficulty when assessing the reliability (or calibration) of forecasting systems is that reliability, in general, is a hypothesis not about a finite dimensional parameter but about an entire functional relationship. A…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-12-09 Jochen Bröcker