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Continual learning aims to learn multiple tasks sequentially. A key challenge in continual learning is balancing between two objectives: retaining knowledge from old tasks (stability) and adapting to new tasks (plasticity). Experience…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Song Lai , Zhe Zhao , Fei Zhu , Xi Lin , Qingfu Zhang , Gaofeng Meng

This work introduces a preference learning method that ensures adherence to given specifications, with an application to autonomous vehicles. Our approach incorporates the priority ordering of Signal Temporal Logic (STL) formulas describing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ruya Karagulle , Nikos Arechiga , Andrew Best , Jonathan DeCastro , Necmiye Ozay

We study the problem of exchange when 1) agents are endowed with heterogeneous indivisible objects, and 2) there is no money. In general, no rule satisfies the three central properties Pareto-efficiency, individual rationality, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-08 William Phan , Christopher Purcell

Consider a university assigning students to courses and dorms. While many mechanisms are available, they each have their own drawbacks. Running serial dictatorship once for all goods is highly unfair, but running serial dictatorship…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-03-19 Eric Gao

This paper links matching markets with aligned preferences to optimal transport theory. We show that stability, efficiency, and fairness emerge as solutions to a parametric family of optimal transport problems. The parameter reflects…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-03-17 Federico Echenique , Joseph Root , Fedor Sandomirskiy

Machine-learned systems are in widespread use for making decisions about humans, and it is important that they are fair, i.e., not biased against individuals based on sensitive attributes. We present a general framework of runtime…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Thomas A. Henzinger , Mahyar Karimi , Konstantin Kueffner , Kaushik Mallik

In the application of machine learning to real-life decision-making systems, e.g., credit scoring and criminal justice, the prediction outcomes might discriminate against people with sensitive attributes, leading to unfairness. The commonly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Suyun Liu , Luis Nunes Vicente

As the main contribution, this document provides a consistent discretization of a class of fixed-time stable systems, namely predefined-time stable systems. In the unperturbed case, the proposed approach allows obtaining not only a…

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) increasingly manage shared physical resources in the presence of human decision-making, where system-assigned actions must be executed by users or agents in the physical world. A fundamental challenge in such…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Anurag Satpathy , Arindam Khanda , Chittaranjan Swain , Sajal K. Das

We study the tiered deferred acceptance mechanism used in school admissions, such as in China and Turkey. This mechanism partitions schools into tiers and applies the deferred acceptance algorithm within each tier. Once assigned, students…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-10-21 Jiarui Xie

The Student-Project Allocation problem with lecturer preferences over Students (SPA-S) involves assigning students to projects based on student preferences over projects, lecturer preferences over students, and the maximum number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Sofiat Olaosebikan , David Manlove

In many machine learning applications, there are multiple decision-makers involved, both automated and human. The interaction between these agents often goes unaddressed in algorithmic development. In this work, we explore a simple version…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-10 David Madras , Toniann Pitassi , Richard Zemel

The student-optimal stable mechanism (DA), the most popular mechanism in school choice, is the only one that is stable and strategy-proof. However, when DA is implemented, a student can change the schools of others without changing her own.…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-02-11 Eduardo Duque , Juan S. Pereyra , Juan Pablo Torres-Martínez

We build on the stability-preserving school choice model introduced and studied recently in [MV18]. We settle several of their open problems and we define and solve a couple of new ones.

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Karthik Gajulapalli , James A. Liu , Vijay V. Vazirani

Cycling delivers significant public-health and environmental benefits, yet its uptake in cities is often limited by perceived safety. When street environments appear unsafe, individuals are less likely to cycle, making perception a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Luís Maria Perdigão , Miguel Costa , Carlos Santiago , Manuel Marques

We study the online multi-class selection problem with group fairness guarantees, where limited resources must be allocated to sequentially arriving agents. Our work addresses two key limitations in the existing literature. First, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Faraz Zargari , Hossein Nekouyan , Lyndon Hallett , Bo Sun , Xiaoqi Tan

The paper considers the problem of multi-objective decision support when outcomes are uncertain. We extend the concept of Pareto-efficient decisions to take into account the uncertainty of decision outcomes across varying contexts. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-20 Sofia Ek , Dave Zachariah , Petre Stoica

Vickrey's classic single-bottleneck departure time choice equilibrium model exhibits instability under many plausible day-to-day learning dynamics. Such instability is not observed in reality -- does this difference stem from the day-to-day…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Hillel Bar-Gera , Stephen D. Boyles , Liron Ravner

Predictive safety filters enable the integration of potentially unsafe learning-based control approaches and humans into safety-critical systems. In addition to simple constraint satisfaction, many control problems involve additional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Elias Milios , Kim Peter Wabersich , Felix Berkel , Lukas Schwenkel

Deep learning models have demonstrated exceptional performance across a wide range of computer vision tasks. However, their performance often degrades significantly when faced with distribution shifts, such as domain or dataset changes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Samuel Barbeau , Pedram Fekri , David Osowiechi , Ali Bahri , Moslem Yazdanpanah , Masih Aminbeidokhti , Christian Desrosiers