Bayesian persuasion and information design

E Kamenica - Annual Review of Economics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
A school may improve its students' job outcomes if it issues only coarse grades. Google can
reduce congestion on roads by giving drivers noisy information about the state of traffic. A …

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 …

Encoding human behavior in information design through deep learning

G Yu, W Tang, S Narayanan… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We initiate the study of $\textit {behavioral information design} $ through deep learning. In
information design, a $\textit {sender} $ aims to persuade a $\textit {receiver} $ to take certain …

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 …

Storytelling, the scale of persuasion and retention: A neuromarketing approach

N Hamelin, P Thaichon, C Abraham, N Driver… - Journal of Retailing and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Persuasive storytelling is an essential tool for propagandists, publicists, and corporations. In
this research, storytelling styles have been examined for their effectiveness in terms of …

Deep contract design via discontinuous networks

T Wang, P Duetting, D Ivanov… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Contract design involves a principal who establishes contractual agreements about
payments for outcomes that arise from the actions of an agent. In this paper, we initiate the …

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 …

Selling data to a machine learner: Pricing via costly signaling

J Chen, M Li, H Xu - International Conference on Machine …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
We consider a new problem of selling data to a machine learner who looks to purchase data
to train his machine learning model. A key challenge in this setup is that neither the seller …

Algorithmic information structure design: a survey

S Dughmi - ACM SIGecom Exchanges, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Information structure design, also sometimes known as signaling or persuasion, is
concerned with understanding the effects of information on the outcomes of strategic …

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 …