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2020, Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20), Pages 1782-1789 (volume: 34)

Peeking Behind the Ordinal Curtain: Improving Distortion via Cardinal Queries (04b Atto di convegno in volume)

Amanatidis Georgios, Birmpas Georgios, Filos-Ratsikas Aris, Voudouris Alexandros

The notion of distortion was introduced by Procaccia and Rosenschein (2006) to quantify the inefficiency of using only ordinal information when trying to maximize the social welfare. Since then, this research area has flourished and bounds on the distortion have been obtained for a wide variety of fundamental scenarios. However, the vast majority of the existing literature is focused on the case where nothing is known beyond the ordinal preferences of the agents over the alternatives. In this paper, we take a more expressive approach, and consider mechanisms that are allowed to further ask a few cardinal queries in order to gain partial access to the underlying values that the agents have for the alternatives. With this extra power, we design new deterministic mechanisms that achieve significantly improved distortion bounds and outperform the best-known randomized ordinal mechanisms. We draw an almost complete picture of the number of queries required to achieve specific distortion bounds.
Gruppo di ricerca: Algorithms and Data Science
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