Multi-agent contracts

P Dütting, T Ezra, M Feldman… - Proceedings of the 55th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We study a natural combinatorial single-principal multi-agent contract design problem, in
which a principal motivates a team of agents to exert effort toward a given task. At the heart …

A constant factor prophet inequality for online combinatorial auctions

J Correa, A Cristi - Proceedings of the 55th Annual ACM Symposium on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In online combinatorial auctions m indivisible items are to be allocated to n agents who
arrive online. Agents have random valuations for the different subsets of items and the goal …

An o (log log m) prophet inequality for subadditive combinatorial auctions

P Dütting, T Kesselheim, B Lucier - ACM SIGecom Exchanges, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We survey the main results from [Dütting, Kesselheim, and Lucier 2020]: 1 a simple posted-
price mechanism for subadditive combinatorial auctions with m items that achieves an O (log …

Optimal item pricing in online combinatorial auctions

J Correa, A Cristi, A Fielbaum, T Pollner… - Mathematical …, 2024 - Springer
We consider a fundamental pricing problem in combinatorial auctions. We are given a set of
indivisible items and a set of buyers with randomly drawn monotone valuations over subsets …

Improved truthful mechanisms for combinatorial auctions with submodular bidders

S Assadi, S Singla - ACM SIGecom Exchanges, 2020 - dl.acm.org
A longstanding open problem in Algorithmic Mechanism Design is to design computationally-
efficient truthful mechanisms for (approximately) maximizing welfare in combinatorial …

Efficient two-sided markets with limited information

P Dütting, F Fusco, P Lazos, S Leonardi… - Proceedings of the 53rd …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
A celebrated impossibility result by Myerson and Satterthwaite (1983) shows that any truthful
mechanism for two-sided markets that maximizes social welfare must run a deficit, resulting …

Improved maximin guarantees for subadditive and fractionally subadditive fair allocation problem

M Seddighin, S Seddighin - Artificial Intelligence, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, we study the maximin share fairness notion (MMS) for allocation of indivisible
goods in the subadditive and fractionally subadditive settings. While previous work refutes …

Multi-agent combinatorial contracts

P Duetting, T Ezra, M Feldman… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Combinatorial contracts are emerging as a key paradigm in algorithmic contract design,
paralleling the role of combinatorial auctions in algorithmic mechanism design. In this paper …

On submodular prophet inequalities and correlation gap

C Chekuri, V Livanos - Theoretical Computer Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Prophet inequalities and secretary problems have been extensively studied in recent years
due to their elegance, connections to online algorithms, stochastic optimization, and …

Online combinatorial assignment in independence systems

J Marinkovic, JA Soto, V Verdugo - International Conference on Integer …, 2024 - Springer
We consider an online multi-weighted generalization of several classic online optimization
problems called the online combinatorial assignment problem. We are given an …