Social Choice for Agents with General Utilities
Authors: Hongyao Ma, Reshef Meir, David C. Parkes
IJCAI 2016 | Conference PDF | Archive PDF | Plain Text | LLM Run Details
| Reproducibility Variable | Result | LLM Response |
|---|---|---|
| Research Type | Theoretical | Our main result extends the Gibbard-Satterthwaite impossibility result by showing that, for two agents, the only truthful mechanism for at least three alternatives under general decreasing utilities remains dictatorial. We then show how to extend the VCG mechanism to work under a more general utility space than quasilinear (the parallel domain ) and show that the parallel domain is maximal no mechanism with the VCG properties exists in any larger domain. |
| Researcher Affiliation | Academia | Hongyao Ma Harvard University hma@seas.harvard.edu Reshef Meir Technion Israel Inst. of Technology reshefm@ie.technion.ac.il David C. Parkes Harvard University parkes@eecs.harvard.edu |
| Pseudocode | Yes | Mechanism 1: VCG Mechanism (QL Utilities) Input: Bids bi,j for any i 2 N and j 2 A Set x(b) , j = arg maxj2A i2N bi,j // allocation rule Set ti(b) = maxj i06=i bi0,j P i06=i bi0,j // payment rule |
| Open Source Code | No | Information insufficient. The paper does not provide any statement about releasing source code or a link to a code repository. |
| Open Datasets | No | Information insufficient. The paper is theoretical and does not mention using any datasets. |
| Dataset Splits | No | Information insufficient. The paper is theoretical and does not mention dataset splits for training, validation, or testing. |
| Hardware Specification | No | Information insufficient. The paper is theoretical and does not mention any hardware specifications used for experiments. |
| Software Dependencies | No | Information insufficient. The paper is theoretical and does not mention any software dependencies with version numbers. |
| Experiment Setup | No | Information insufficient. The paper is theoretical and does not describe an experimental setup with hyperparameters or training configurations. |