English
Related papers

Related papers: On Computing the Shapley Value in Bankruptcy Games…

200 papers

One of the long-debated issues in coalitional game theory is how to extend the Shapley value to games with externalities (partition-function games). When externalities are present, not only can a player's marginal contribution - a central…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-29 Oskar Skibski , Tomasz P. Michalak , Michael Wooldridge

In this paper we investigate the problem of quantifying the contribution of each variable to the satisfying assignments of a Boolean function based on the Shapley value. Our main result is a polynomial-time equivalence between computing…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Ahmet Kara , Dan Olteanu , Dan Suciu

We show that any cooperative game can be represented by an assignment of costly facilities to players, in which it is intuitively obvious how to allocate the total cost in an equitable manner. This equitable solution turns out to be the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-01-19 Pradeep Dubey

The Shapley value concept from cooperative game theory has become a popular technique for interpreting ML models, but efficiently estimating these values remains challenging, particularly in the model-agnostic setting. Here, we revisit the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Ian Covert , Su-In Lee

The Shapley value, originating from cooperative game theory, has been employed to define responsibility measures that quantify the contributions of database facts to obtaining a given query answer. For non-numeric queries, this is done by…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Meghyn Bienvenu , Diego Figueira , Pierre Lafourcade

The Shapley value is commonly illustrated by roll call votes in which players support or reject a proposal in sequence. If all sequences are equiprobable, a voter's Shapley value can be interpreted as the probability of being pivotal, i.e.,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Sascha Kurz , Stefan Napel

The Reward-Penalty-Selection Problem (RPSP) can be seen as a combination of the Set Cover Problem (SCP) and the Hitting Set Problem (HSP). Given a set of elements, a set of reward sets, and a set of penalty sets, one tries to find a subset…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Niklas Gräf , Till Heller , Sven O. Krumke

This paper makes the case for using Shapley value to quantify the importance of random input variables to a function. Alternatives based on the ANOVA decomposition can run into conceptual and computational problems when the input variables…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-22 Art B. Owen , Clémentine Prieur

This paper addresses Monte Carlo algorithms for calculating the Shapley-Shubik power index in weighted majority games. First, we analyze a naive Monte Carlo algorithm and discuss the required number of samples. We then propose an efficient…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Yuto Ushioda , Masato Tanaka , Tomomi Matsui

Shapley value is a concept in cooperative game theory for measuring the contribution of each participant, which was named in honor of Lloyd Shapley. Shapley value has been recently applied in data marketplaces for compensation allocation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Jinfei Liu

The Shapley value, which is arguably the most popular approach for assigning a meaningful contribution value to players in a cooperative game, has recently been used intensively in explainable artificial intelligence. Its meaningfulness is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Patrick Kolpaczki , Viktor Bengs , Maximilian Muschalik , Eyke Hüllermeier

Because of their strong theoretical properties, Shapley values have become very popular as a way to explain predictions made by black box models. Unfortuately, most existing techniques to compute Shapley values are computationally very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Arne Gevaert , Yvan Saeys

For reinforcement learning systems to be widely adopted, their users must understand and trust them. We present a theoretical analysis of explaining reinforcement learning using Shapley values, following a principled approach from game…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Daniel Beechey , Thomas M. S. Smith , Özgür Şimşek

The Shapley value was originally introduced in cooperative game theory as a wealth distribution mechanism. It has since found use in knowledge representation and databases for the purpose of assigning scores to formulas and database tuples…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Meghyn Bienvenu , Diego Figueira , Pierre Lafourcade

Weighted voting games are a well-known and useful class of succinctly representable simple games that have many real-world applications, e.g., to model collective decision-making in legislative bodies or shareholder voting. Among the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Joanna Kaczmarek , Jörg Rothe

For $f$ a weighted voting scheme used by $n$ voters to choose between two candidates, the $n$ \emph{Shapley-Shubik Indices} (or {\em Shapley values}) of $f$ provide a measure of how much control each voter can exert over the overall outcome…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-21 Anindya De , Ilias Diakonikolas , Rocco A. Servedio

As data emerges as a vital driver of technological and economic advancements, a key challenge is accurately quantifying its value in algorithmic decision-making. The Shapley value, a well-established concept from cooperative game theory,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Xi Zheng , Xiangyu Chang , Ruoxi Jia , Yong Tan

Reinforcement learning has achieved remarkable success in complex decision-making environments, yet its lack of transparency limits its deployment in practice, especially in safety-critical settings. Shapley values from cooperative game…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Daniel Beechey , Özgür Şimşek

As the complexity of software systems rises, methods for explaining their behaviour are becoming ever-more important. When a system fails, it is critical to determine which of its components are responsible for this failure. Within the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Christel Baier , Rio Klatt , Sascha Klüppelholz , Max Korn , Johannes Lehmann

What is the value of an individual model in an ensemble of binary classifiers? We answer this question by introducing a class of transferable utility cooperative games called \textit{ensemble games}. In machine learning ensembles,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Benedek Rozemberczki , Rik Sarkar