Incentives for Truthful Information Elicitation of Continuous Signals

Authors: Goran Radanovic, Boi Faltings

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Research Type Theoretical We propose a novel mechanism called the Divergence-based Bayesian Truth Serum. It allows non-binary signals and is incentive-compatible even for small populations, without requiring additional restrictions on the BTS setting. Moreover, the divergence-based BTS is guaranteed to be individually rational with bounded payments, and, for discrete signals, it permits differences in agents prior beliefs. Furthermore, it is the first BTS mechanism that can be applied to continuous domains. The paper focuses on theoretical proofs and propositions (e.g., Theorem 1, Theorem 2, Theorem 3, Proposition 1, Proposition 2, Proposition 3, Proposition 4) for the proposed mechanism without conducting empirical studies or experiments on datasets.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Goran Radanovic and Boi Faltings Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) Artificial Intelligence Laboratory CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland {goran.radanovic, boi.faltings}@epfl.ch
Pseudocode No The paper describes algorithms in prose and uses mathematical formulations (e.g., scoring functions) but does not provide structured pseudocode or algorithm blocks.
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide any information about open-source code availability or links to repositories.
Open Datasets No The paper is theoretical and does not conduct experiments on a publicly available dataset. It discusses theoretical signal values and prior distributions (e.g., Gaussian prior) but does not refer to specific datasets with access information.
Dataset Splits No The paper does not conduct empirical experiments with datasets, and therefore does not specify training, validation, or test dataset splits.
Hardware Specification No The paper is theoretical and does not describe any specific hardware used for experiments.
Software Dependencies No The paper is theoretical and does not specify any software dependencies or their version numbers required for reproducibility.
Experiment Setup No The paper does not describe an experimental setup with specific hyperparameters or system-level training settings, as it is a theoretical work.