Anticipating performativity by predicting from predictions

C Mendler-Dünner, F Ding… - Advances in neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Predictions about people, such as their expected educational achievement or their credit
risk, can be performative and shape the outcome that they are designed to predict …

The sample complexity of online contract design

B Zhu, S Bates, Z Yang, Y Wang, J Jiao… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We study the hidden-action principal-agent problem in an online setting. In each round, the
principal posts a contract that specifies the payment to the agent based on each outcome …

Generalized strategic classification and the case of aligned incentives

S Levanon, N Rosenfeld - International Conference on …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Strategic classification studies learning in settings where self-interested users can
strategically modify their features to obtain favorable predictive outcomes. A key working …

Adaptive principal component regression with applications to panel data

A Agarwal, K Harris, J Whitehouse… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Principal component regression (PCR) is a popular technique for fixed-design error-in-
variables regression, a generalization of the linear regression setting in which the observed …

Strategic apple tasting

K Harris, C Podimata, SZ Wu - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Algorithmic decision-making in high-stakes domains often involves assigning decisions to
agents with incentives to strategically modify their input to the algorithm. In addition to …

Online learning in a creator economy

B Zhu, SP Karimireddy, J Jiao, MI Jordan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.11381, 2023 - arxiv.org
The creator economy has revolutionized the way individuals can profit through online
platforms. In this paper, we initiate the study of online learning in the creator economy by …

Causal strategic classification: A tale of two shifts

G Horowitz, N Rosenfeld - International Conference on …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
When users can benefit from certain predictive outcomes, they may be prone to act to
achieve those outcome, eg, by strategically modifying their features. The goal in strategic …

Strategic decision-making in the presence of information asymmetry: Provably efficient rl with algorithmic instruments

M Yu, Z Yang, J Fan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.11040, 2022 - arxiv.org
We study offline reinforcement learning under a novel model called strategic MDP, which
characterizes the strategic interactions between a principal and a sequence of myopic …

Performative recommendation: diversifying content via strategic incentives

I Eilat, N Rosenfeld - International Conference on Machine …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
The primary goal in recommendation is to suggest relevant content to users, but optimizing
for accuracy often results in recommendations that lack diversity. To remedy this …

Learning in reverse causal strategic environments with ramifications on two sided markets

S Somerstep, Y Sun, Y Ritov - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.13240, 2024 - arxiv.org
Motivated by equilibrium models of labor markets, we develop a formulation of causal
strategic classification in which strategic agents can directly manipulate their outcomes. As …