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Large language models (LLMs) excel at complex tasks with advances in reasoning capabilities. However, existing reward mechanisms remain tightly coupled to final correctness and pay little attention to the underlying reasoning process:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jingyao Wang , Peizheng Guo , Wenwen Qiang , Jiahuan Zhou , Huijie Guo , Changwen Zheng , Hui Xiong

We study situations where a group of voters need to take a collective decision over a number of public issues, with the goal of getting a result that reflects the voters' opinions in a proportional manner. Our focus is on interconnected…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Julian Chingoma , Umberto Grandi , Arianna Novaro

Several countries successfully use centralized matching schemes for school or higher education assignment, or for entry-level labour markets. In this paper we explore the computational aspects of a possible similar scheme for assigning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Katarina Cechlarova , Tamas Fleiner , David F. Manlove , Iain McBride

I study how organisations choose selection procedures in a competitive environment. Two firms compete to hire candidates of unknown productivity from a common pool. Firms simultaneously post a selection procedure which consists of a test…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-01 Nathan Hancart

Systematic compositionality is the ability to recombine meaningful units with regular and predictable outcomes, and it's seen as key to humans' capacity for generalization in language. Recent work has studied systematic compositionality in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-20 João Loula , Marco Baroni , Brenden M. Lake

In a many-to-one matching market, we analyze the matching game induced by a stable rule when firms' choice function satisfy substitutability. We show that any stable rule implements the individually rational correspondence in Nash…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-04-29 Noelia Juarez , Paola B. Manasero , Jorge Oviedo

In this paper we extend the principle of proportional representation to rankings. We consider the setting where alternatives need to be ranked based on approval preferences. In this setting, proportional representation requires that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Piotr Skowron , Martin Lackner , Markus Brill , Dominik Peters , Edith Elkind

We consider the problem of sequential evaluation, in which an evaluator observes candidates in a sequence and assigns scores to these candidates in an online, irrevocable fashion. Motivated by the psychology literature that has studied…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-20 Jingyan Wang , Ashwin Pananjady

In this paper we develop a unified approach for solving a wide class of sequential selection problems. This class includes, but is not limited to, selection problems with no-information, rank-dependent rewards, and considers both fixed as…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Alexander Goldenshluger , Yaakov Malinovsky , Assaf Zeevi

Sequential recommendation refers to recommending the next item of interest for a specific user based on his/her historical behavior sequence up to a certain time. While previous research has extensively examined Markov chain-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-06 DongYu Du , Yue Chan

The mathematical study of voting, social choice theory, has traditionally only been applicable to choices among a few predetermined alternatives, but not to open-ended decisions such as collectively selecting a textual statement. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Sara Fish , Paul Gölz , David C. Parkes , Ariel D. Procaccia , Gili Rusak , Itai Shapira , Manuel Wüthrich

We provide optimal solutions to an institution that has distributional objectives when choosing from a set of applications based on merit (or priority). For example, in college admissions, administrators may want to admit a diverse class in…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-06-05 Isa E. Hafalir , Fuhito Kojima , M. Bumin Yenmez , Koji Yokote

Polling systems have been widely studied, however most of these studies focus on polling systems with renewal processes for arrivals and random variables for service times. There is a need driven by practical applications to study polling…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Jin Xu , Natarajan Gautam

We study multiwinner elections with approval-based preferences. An instance of a multiwinner election consists of a set of alternatives, a population of voters---each voter approves a subset of alternatives, and the desired committee size…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Piotr Skowron

Gaussian processes are a powerful framework for uncertainty-aware function approximation and sequential decision-making. Unfortunately, their classical formulation does not scale gracefully to large amounts of data and modern hardware for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Jihao Andreas Lin

In many reserve-based affirmative action systems, admission cutoffs are publicly disclosed to enable students to verify whether reserved seats are correctly assigned. We introduce a verifiability criterion: each student must be able to…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-26 Xinquan Hu , Jun Zhang

In the combinatorial recommender systems, multiple items are fed to the user at one time in the result page, where the correlations among the items have impact on the user behavior. In this work, we model the combinatorial recommendation as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Fan Wang , Xiaomin Fang , Lihang Liu , Yaxue Chen , Jiucheng Tao , Zhiming Peng , Cihang Jin , Hao Tian

We study the set of incentive compatible and efficient two-sided matching mechanisms. We classify all such mechanisms under an additional assumption -- "gender-neutrality" -- which guarantees that the two sides be treated symmetrically. All…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-01-31 Sophie Bade , Joseph Root

Matching logic is a formalism for specifying, and reasoning about, mathematical structures, using patterns and pattern matching. Growing in popularity, it has been used to define many logical systems such as separation logic with recursive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Péter Bereczky , Xiaohong Chen , Dániel Horpácsi , Lucas Peña , Jan Tušil

A simple mechanism for allocating indivisible resources is sequential allocation in which agents take turns to pick items. We focus on possible and necessary allocation problems, checking whether allocations of a given form occur in some or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Haris Aziz , Toby Walsh , Lirong Xia