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When users stand to gain from certain predictions, they are prone to act strategically to obtain favorable predictive outcomes. Whereas most works on strategic classification consider user actions that manifest as feature modifications, we…

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Machine learning (ML) is becoming a commodity. Numerous ML frameworks and services are available to data holders who are not ML experts but want to train predictive models on their data. It is important that ML models trained on sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Congzheng Song , Thomas Ristenpart , Vitaly Shmatikov

We investigate factors contributing to LLM agents' success in competitive multi-agent environments, using auctions as a testbed where agents bid to maximize profit. The agents are equipped with bidding domain knowledge, distinct personas…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Kenan Jiang , Li Xiong , Fei Liu

We study a sequential price competition among $N$ sellers, each influenced by the pricing decisions of their rivals. Specifically, the demand function for each seller $i$ follows the single index model $\lambda_i(\mathbf p) = \mu_i(\langle…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Daniele Bracale , Moulinath Banerjee , Cong Shi , Yuekai Sun

Frequently, acquiring training data has an associated cost. We consider the situation where the learner may purchase data during training, subject TO a budget. IN particular, we examine the CASE WHERE each feature label has an associated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Daniel J. Lizotte , Omid Madani , Russell Greiner

We undertake a formal study of the value of targeting data to an advertiser. As expected, this value is increasing in the utility difference between realizations of the targeting data and the accuracy of the data, and depends on the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Kshipra Bhawalkar , Patrick Hummel , Sergei Vassilvitskii

Sufficient supervised information is crucial for any machine learning models to boost performance. However, labeling data is expensive and sometimes difficult to obtain. Active learning is an approach to acquire annotations for data from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Quan Kong , Bin Tong , Martin Klinkigt , Yuki Watanabe , Naoto Akira , Tomokazu Murakami

In the new digital age, information is available in large quantities. Since information consumes primarily the attention of its recipients, the scarcity of attention is becoming the main limiting factor. In this study, we investigate the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-26 Uzay Cetin , Haluk O. Bingol

Machine learning (ML) model trading, known for its role in protecting data privacy, faces a major challenge: information asymmetry. This issue can lead to model deception, a problem that current literature has not fully solved, where the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Xiang Li , Jianwei Huang , Kai Yang , Chenyou Fan

Regulation is increasingly cited as the most important and pressing concern in machine learning. However, it is currently unknown how to implement this, and perhaps more importantly, how it would effect model performance alongside human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Eoin M. Kenny , Julie A. Shah

AI systems that model and interact with users can update their models over time to reflect new information and changes in the environment. Although these updates may improve the overall performance of the AI system, they may actually hurt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Jonathan Martinez , Kobi Gal , Ece Kamar , Levi H. S. Lelis

Federated learning (FL) is a collaborative technique for training large-scale models while protecting user data privacy. Despite its substantial benefits, the free-riding behavior raises a major challenge for the formation of FL, especially…

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Machine learning research typically starts with a fixed data set created early in the process. The focus of the experiments is finding a model and training procedure that result in the best possible performance in terms of some selected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Hannes Westermann , Jaromir Savelka , Vern R. Walker , Kevin D. Ashley , Karim Benyekhlef

Previous work on the competitive retrieval setting focused on a single-query setting: document authors manipulate their documents so as to improve their future ranking for a given query. We study a competitive setting where authors opt to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Haya Nachimovsky , Moshe Tennenholtz , Fiana Raiber , Oren Kurland

Machine learning (ML) systems have become vital in the mobile gaming industry. Companies like King have been using them in production to optimize various parts of the gaming experience. One important area is in-app purchases: purchases made…

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Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Kangyao Huang , Di Guo , Xinyu Zhang , Xiangyang Ji , Huaping Liu

Online advertising banners are sold in real-time through auctions.Typically, the more banners a user is shown, the smaller the marginalvalue of the next banner for this user is. This fact can be detected bybasic ML models, that can be used…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Benjamin Heymann , Rémi Chan--Renous-Legoubin , Alexandre Gilotte

Research on limit order book markets has been rapidly growing and nowadays high-frequency full order book data is widely available for researchers and practitioners. However, it is common that research papers use the best level data only,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Dat Thanh Tran , Juho Kanniainen , Alexandros Iosifidis

We model competition on a credence goods market governed by an imperfect label, signaling high quality, as a rank-order tournament between firms. In this market interaction, asymmetric firms jointly and competitively control the aggregate…

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