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- abstractJune 2018
The A/B Testing Problem
EC '18: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Economics and ComputationPages 461–462https://doi.org/10.1145/3219166.3219204"Randomized experiments are increasingly central to innovation in many fields. In the tech sector, major platforms run thousands of experiments (called A/B tests) each year on tens of millions of users at any given time and use the results to screen ...
- research-articleJune 2018
Water from Two Rocks: Maximizing the Mutual Information
EC '18: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Economics and ComputationPages 177–194https://doi.org/10.1145/3219166.3219194We build a natural connection between the learning problem, co-training, and forecast elicitation without verification (related to peer-prediction) and address them simultaneously using the same information theoretic approach. In co-training/multiview ...
- research-articleJune 2018
Eliciting Expertise without Verification
EC '18: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Economics and ComputationPages 195–212https://doi.org/10.1145/3219166.3219172A central question of crowdsourcing is how to elicit expertise from agents. This is even more difficult when answers cannot be directly verified. A key challenge is that sophisticated agents may strategically withhold effort or information when they ...