On supermodular contracts and dense subgraphs

R Deo-Campo Vuong, S Dughmi, N Patel… - Proceedings of the 2024 …, 2024 - SIAM
We study the combinatorial contract design problem, introduced and studied by Dütting et
al.(2021, 2022), in both the single and multi-agent settings. Prior work has examined the …

Learning to incentivize information acquisition: Proper scoring rules meet principal-agent model

S Chen, J Wu, Y Wu, Z Yang - International Conference on …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
We study the incentivized information acquisition problem, where a principal hires an agent
to gather information on her behalf. Such a problem is modeled as a Stackelberg game …

Optimization of scoring rules

Y Li, JD Hartline, L Shan, Y Wu - … of the 23rd ACM Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
This paper introduces an objective for optimizing proper scoring rules. The objective is to
maximize the increase in payoff of a forecaster who exerts a binary level of effort to refine a …

Algorithmic contract theory: A survey

P Dütting, M Feldman… - Foundations and Trends …, 2024 - nowpublishers.com
A contract is an economic tool used by a principal to incentivize one or more agents to exert
effort on her behalf, by defining payments based on observable performance measures. A …

Optimal scoring rules for multi-dimensional effort

JD Hartline, L Shan, Y Li, Y Wu - The Thirty Sixth Annual …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
This paper develops a framework for the design of scoring rules to optimally incentivize an
agent to exert a multi-dimensional effort. This framework is a generalization to strategic …

On supermodular contracts and dense subgraphs

RDC Vuong, S Dughmi, N Patel, A Prasad - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We study the combinatorial contract design problem, introduced and studied by Dutting et.
al.(2021, 2022), in both the single and multi-agent settings. Prior work has examined the …

Online mechanism design for information acquisition

F Cacciamani, M Castiglioni… - … Conference on Machine …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
We study the problem of designing mechanisms for information acquisition scenarios. This
setting models strategic interactions between a uniformed receiver and a set of informed …

Contracts with information acquisition, via scoring rules

M Papireddygari, B Waggoner - … of the 23rd ACM Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
This paper considers a principal-agent problem of delegation that features two types of
information asymmetry. A principal delegates a task to the agent; the agent can first choose …

Optimization of scoring rules

JD Hartline, Y Li, L Shan, Y Wu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2007.02905, 2020 - arxiv.org
This paper introduces an objective for optimizing proper scoring rules. The objective is to
maximize the increase in payoff of a forecaster who exerts a binary level of effort to refine a …

Managing Persuasion Robustly: The Optimality of Quota Rules

D Bergemann, T Gan, Y Li - arxiv preprint arxiv:2310.10024, 2023 - arxiv.org
We study a sender-receiver model where the receiver can commit to a decision rule before
the sender determines the information policy. The decision rule can depend on the signal …