Online (Budgeted) Social Choice

Authors: Joel Oren, Brendan Lucier

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical We prove that no algorithm (even randomized) can achieve an approximation factor better than O( log log m log m ). In contrast, if the agents arrive in random order, we present a (1 1 e o(1))approximate algorithm, matching a lower bound for the offline problem.
Researcher Affiliation Collaboration Joel Oren University of Toronto, Canada oren@cs.toronto.edu Brendan Lucier Microsoft Research, New England,USA brlucier@microsoft.com
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1: Online Candidate Selection Algorithm Input: Candidate set A, parameters k and n, online sequence of preference profiles 1 Let t n2/3(log n + k log m); 2 Observe the first t agents, T = {σ(1), . . . , σ(t)}; 3 S Greedy(T, k); 4 Choose all candidates in S and let the process run to completion;
Open Source Code No The paper does not mention or provide any links to open-source code for the described methodology.
Open Datasets No The paper is theoretical and does not describe the use of any publicly available or open datasets for training or evaluation.
Dataset Splits No The paper is theoretical and does not specify any training/validation/test splits, as it does not involve empirical data.
Hardware Specification No The paper does not specify any hardware used for experiments.
Software Dependencies No The paper does not specify any software dependencies with version numbers.
Experiment Setup No The paper is theoretical and does not provide details about hyperparameters or system-level training settings, as it does not involve empirical experiments.