Introduction to multi-armed bandits

A Slivkins - Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning, 2019 - nowpublishers.com
Multi-armed bandits a simple but very powerful framework for algorithms that make
decisions over time under uncertainty. An enormous body of work has accumulated over the …

A perspective on incentive design: Challenges and opportunities

LJ Ratliff, R Dong, S Sekar, T Fiez - Annual Review of Control …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The increasingly tight coupling between humans and system operations in domains ranging
from intelligent infrastructure to e-commerce has led to a challenging new class of problems …

Recommender systems as mechanisms for social learning

YK Che, J Hörner - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
This article studies how a recommender system may incentivize users to learn about a
product collaboratively. To improve the incentives for early exploration, the optimal design …

Optimal rates and efficient algorithms for online bayesian persuasion

M Bernasconi, M Castiglioni, A Celli… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Bayesian persuasion studies how an informed sender should influence beliefs of rational
receivers that take decisions through Bayesian updating of a common prior. We focus on the …

Online bayesian persuasion

M Castiglioni, A Celli, A Marchesi… - Advances in neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In Bayesian persuasion, an informed sender has to design a signaling scheme that
discloses the right amount of information so as to influence the behavior of a self-interested …

Algorithmic bayesian persuasion

S Dughmi, H Xu - Proceedings of the forty-eighth annual ACM …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Persuasion, defined as the act of exploiting an informational advantage in order to effect the
decisions of others, is ubiquitous. Indeed, persuasive communication has been estimated to …

Sequential information design: Markov persuasion process and its efficient reinforcement learning

J Wu, Z Zhang, Z Feng, Z Wang, Z Yang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
In today's economy, it becomes important for Internet platforms to consider the sequential
information design problem to align its long term interest with incentives of the gig service …

Multi-receiver online bayesian persuasion

M Castiglioni, A Marchesi, A Celli… - … on Machine Learning, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Bayesian persuasion studies how an informed sender should partially disclose information
to influence the behavior of a self-interested receiver. Classical models make the stringent …

Optimal signaling mechanisms in unobservable queues

D Lingenbrink, K Iyer - Operations research, 2019 - pubsonline.informs.org
We consider the problem of optimal information sharing in an unobservable single-server
queue offering service at a fixed price to a Poisson arrival of delay-sensitive customers. The …

Bayesian exploration: Incentivizing exploration in Bayesian games

Y Mansour, A Slivkins, V Syrgkanis… - Operations …, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
We consider a ubiquitous scenario in the internet economy when individual decision makers
(henceforth, agents) both produce and consume information as they make strategic choices …