Bandit learning in decentralized matching markets

LT Liu, F Ruan, H Mania, MI Jordan - Journal of Machine Learning …, 2021 - jmlr.org
We study two-sided matching markets in which one side of the market (the players) does not
have a priori knowledge about its preferences for the other side (the arms) and is required to …

Competing bandits in matching markets

LT Liu, H Mania, M Jordan - International Conference on …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Stable matching, a classical model for two-sided markets, has long been studied assuming
known preferences. In reality agents often have to learn about their preferences through …

[PDF][PDF] Adaptivity and confounding in multi-armed bandit experiments

C Qin, D Russo - arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.09036, 2022 - aeaweb.org
We explore a new model of bandit experiments where a potentially nonstationary sequence
of contexts influences arms' performance. Context-unaware algorithms risk confounding …

Experimenting in equilibrium

S Wager, K Xu - Management Science, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
Classical approaches to experimental design assume that intervening on one unit does not
affect other units. There are many important settings, however, where this noninterference …

Dominate or delete: Decentralized competing bandits in serial dictatorship

A Sankararaman, S Basu… - International …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Online learning in a two-sided matching market, with demand side agents continuously
competing to be matched with supply side (arms), abstracts the complex interactions under …

Matching impatient and heterogeneous demand and supply

A Aveklouris, L DeValve, M Stock… - Operations …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Service platforms must determine rules for matching heterogeneous demand (customers)
and supply (workers) that arrive randomly over time and may be lost if forced to wait too long …

Designing informative rating systems: Evidence from an online labor market

N Garg, R Johari - Manufacturing & Service Operations …, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
Problem definition: Platforms critically rely on rating systems to learn the quality of market
participants. In practice, however, ratings are often highly inflated and therefore, not very …

Learning personalized product recommendations with customer disengagement

H Bastani, P Harsha, G Perakis… - … & Service Operations …, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Problem definition: We study personalized product recommendations on platforms when
customers have unknown preferences. Importantly, customers may disengage when offered …

Contextual blocking bandits

S Basu, O Papadigenopoulos… - International …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
We study a novel variant of the multi-armed bandit problem, where at each time step, the
player observes an independently sampled context that determines the arms' mean rewards …

When is it beneficial to provide freelance suppliers with choice? A hierarchical approach for peer-to-peer logistics platforms

SS Mofidi, JA Pazour - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper proposes and evaluates a new hierarchical approach to peer-to-peer logistics
platforms, recasting the platform's role as one providing personalized menus of requests to …