Refined Mechanism Design for Approximately Structured Priors via Active Regression

Authors: Christos Boutsikas, Petros Drineas, Marios Mertzanidis, Alexandros Psomas, Paritosh Verma

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Research Type Theoretical We design an active learning component, responsible for interacting with the bidders and outputting low-dimensional approximations of their types, and a mechanism design component, responsible for robustifying mechanisms for the low-dimensional model to work for the approximate types of the former component. On the active learning front, we cast our problem in the framework of Randomized Linear Algebra (RLA) for regression problems, allowing us to import several breakthrough results from that line of research, and adapt them to our setting. On the mechanism design front, we remove many restrictive assumptions of prior work on the type of access needed to the underlying distributions and the associated mechanisms.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Christos Boutsikas Purdue University cboutsik@purdue.edu Petros Drineas Purdue University pdrineas@purdue.edu Marios Mertzanidis Purdue University mmertzan@purdue.edu Alexandros Psomas Purdue University apsomas@cs.purdue.edu Paritosh Verma Purdue University verma136@purdue.edu
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