Experimenting in Equilibrium
Experimenting in Equilibrium
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平衡实验
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发表时间:
2019
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通讯作者:
Kuang Xu
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作者:
Stefan Wager;Kuang Xu
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 assumption does not hold, as when running experiments on supply-side incentives on a ride-sharing platform or subsidies in an energy marketplace. In this paper, we introduce a new approach to experimental design in large-scale stochastic systems with considerable cross-unit interference, under an assumption that the interference is structured enough that it can be captured via mean-field modeling. Our approach enables us to accurately estimate the effect of small changes to system parameters by combining unobtrusive randomization with lightweight modeling, all while remaining in equilibrium. We can then use these estimates to optimize the system by gradient descent. Concretely, we focus on the problem of a platform that seeks to optimize supply-side payments [Formula: see text] in a centralized marketplace where different suppliers interact via their effects on the overall supply-demand equilibrium, and we show that our approach enables the platform to optimize [Formula: see text] in large systems using vanishingly small perturbations. This paper was accepted by Hamid Nazerzadeh, big data analytics.
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4.5
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Sävje F;Aronow P;Hudgens M
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Hudgens M
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5.9
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发表时间:
2021
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Proceedings the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing
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作者:
Esfandiari, Hossein;Karbasi, Amin;Mehrabian, Abbas;Mirrokni, Vahab
通讯作者:
Mirrokni, Vahab