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New research tackles principal-agent problems with unobserved rewards

Researchers have developed new methods for principal-agent games in a multi-armed bandit framework, addressing scenarios where the principal cannot observe the agent's reward. The first paper focuses on a perfect-knowledge agent, constructing an estimator for the agent's rewards and a policy with a low regret. The second paper extends this to a setting where the agent also learns its rewards, introducing a parallel learning algorithm for the principal and proving the consistency of the estimator and a regret bound for the principal. Both papers demonstrate the applicability of their frameworks through simulations in areas like personalized healthcare and green energy contracts. AI

IMPACT These theoretical advancements could lead to more effective incentive designs in complex real-world applications where rewards are not directly observable.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains two academic papers published on arXiv detailing novel theoretical frameworks and algorithms for principal-agent problems in machine learning.

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Ilgin Dogan, Zuo-Jun Max Shen, Anil Aswani ·

    Learning to Incentivize Perfect-Knowledge Agents with Unobserved Rewards

    arXiv:2304.07407v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Motivated by a number of real-world applications from domains like healthcare and sustainable transportation, in this paper we study a scenario of repeated principal-agent games within a multi-armed bandit (MAB) framework,…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Ilgin Dogan, Zuo-Jun Max Shen, Anil Aswani ·

    When the Agent Learns Too: Learning to Incentivize with Unobserved Rewards

    arXiv:2308.06717v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In practice, incentive providers (i.e., principals) often cannot observe the reward realizations of incentivized agents, which is in contrast to many principal-agent models that have been previously studied. This informati…