Fundamental Bounds on Online Strategic Classification
Fundamental Bounds on Online Strategic Classification
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在线战略分类的基本界限
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10.1145/3580507.3597818
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2023
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Yang, Kunhe
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Ahmadi, Saba;Blum, Avrim;Yang, Kunhe
We study the problem of online binary classification where strategic agents can manipulate their observable features in predefined ways, modeled by a manipulation graph, in order to receive a positive classification. We show this setting differs in fundamental ways from classic (non-strategic) online classification. For instance, whereas in the non-strategic case, a mistake bound of ln|H|is achievable via the halving algorithm when the target function belongs to a known classH, we show that no deterministic algorithm can achieve a mistake boundo(Δ) in the strategic setting, where Δ is the maximum degree of the manipulation graph (even when |H| =O(Δ)). We complement this with a general algorithm achieving mistake bound O(Δ ln|H|). We also extend this to theagnosticsetting, and show that this algorithm achieves a Δ multiplicative regret (mistake bound ofO(Δ · OPT + Δ · ln |H|)), and that no deterministic algorithm can achieveo(Δ) multiplicative regret.Next, we study two randomized models based on whether the random choices are made before or after agents respond, and show they exhibit fundamental differences. In the first,fractionalmodel, at each round the learner deterministically chooses a probability distribution over classifiers inducing expected values on each vertex (probabilities of being classified as positive), which the strategic agents respond to. We show that any learner in this model has to suffer linear regret. On the other hand, in the secondrandomized algorithmsmodel, while the adversary who selects the next agent must respond to the learner's probability distribution over classifiers, the agent then responds to the actual hypothesis classifier drawn from this distribution. Surprisingly, we show this model is more advantageous to the learner, and we design randomized algorithms that achieve sublinear regret bounds against both oblivious and adaptive adversaries.
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