Paper-Conference

Mechanism Design for AI Overviews: Creator Incentives and Long-Term Profit

The integration of AI Overviews into search engines enhances user experience but diverts traffic from content creators, potentially discouraging high-quality content creation and …

yihang-wu
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The Complexity of Tullock Contests

Despite the extensive literature on Tullock contests, computational results for the general model with heterogeneous contestants remain scarce. This paper studies the algorithmic …

yu-he
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CREDIT: Certified Ownership Verification of Deep Neural Networks Against Model Extraction Attacks

Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) has emerged as a widely adopted paradigm for providing access to deep neural network (DNN) models, enabling users to conveniently leverage …

bolin-shen
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Single-Agent Poisoning Attacks Suffice to Ruin Multi-Agent Learning

We investigate the robustness of multi-agent learning in strongly monotone games with bandit feedback. While previous research has developed learning algorithms that achieve …

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Fan Yao
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Policy Design for Two-sided Platforms with Participation Dynamics

In two-sided platforms (e.g., video streaming or e-commerce), viewers and providers engage in interactive dynamics: viewers benefit from increases in provider populations, while …

haruka-kiyohara
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Human vs Generative AI in Content Creation Competition: Symbiosis or Conflict?

The advent of generative AI (GenAI) technology produces transformative impact on the content creation landscape, offering alternative approaches to produce diverse, high-quality …

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Fan Yao
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User Welfare Optimization in Recommender Systems with Competing Content Creators

Driven by the new economic opportunities created by the creator economy, an increasing number of content creators rely on and compete for revenue generated from online content …

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Fan Yao
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How Bad is Top-K Recommendation under Competing Content Creators?

This study explores the impact of content creators’ competition on user welfare in recommendation platforms, as well as the long-term dynamics of relevance-driven recommendations. …

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Fan Yao
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Multi-Agent Learning for Iterative Dominance Elimination: Formal Barriers and New Algorithms

Dominated actions are natural (and perhaps the simplest possible) multi-agent generalizations of sub-optimal actions as in standard single-agent decision making. Thus similar to …

jibang-wu
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PAC-Learning for Strategic Classification

The study of strategic or adversarial manipulation of testing data to fool a classifier has attracted much recent attention. Most previous works have focused on two extreme …

ravi-sundaram
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