Mechanism Design with Predictions

Authors: Chenyang Xu, Pinyan Lu

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical This paper initiates the systematic study of mechanism design in this model. In a number of well-studied mechanism design settings, we make use of imperfect predictions to design mechanisms that perform much better than traditional mechanisms if the predictions are accurate (consistency), while always retaining worst-case guarantees even with very imprecise predictions (robustness)." (Abstract) and "We study four very different and well-studied mechanism design problems and observe that predictions are indeed helpful." (Section 1.2). The paper proceeds with theorems, lemmas, and pseudocode, but no experimental results.
Researcher Affiliation Collaboration Chenyang Xu1 , Pinyan Lu2,3, 1College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University 2ITCS, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics 3Huawei TCS Lab
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1 Single-Item Auction with Predictions", "Algorithm 2 Frugal Path Auction with Predictions", "Algorithm 3 Truthful Job Scheduling with Predictions", "Algorithm 4 Two-Facility Game with Predictions
Open Source Code No The paper does not contain any statements about making source code publicly available, nor does it provide any links to code repositories.
Open Datasets No The paper presents theoretical work on mechanism design and does not describe experiments that would involve training on a dataset. No dataset information or access details are provided.
Dataset Splits No The paper is theoretical and focuses on algorithm design and proofs, not empirical evaluation. Therefore, it does not provide details on training, validation, or test dataset splits.
Hardware Specification No This is a theoretical paper focusing on mechanism design and proofs. It does not describe any computational experiments or hardware specifications.
Software Dependencies No The paper describes theoretical algorithms and their analysis. It does not mention any software dependencies or specific version numbers for implementation or experimentation.
Experiment Setup No The paper focuses on theoretical contributions in mechanism design and does not report on empirical experiments or their setup, including hyperparameters or system-level training settings.