Online Combinatorial Allocation with Interdependent Values
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| Název: | Online Combinatorial Allocation with Interdependent Values |
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| Autoři: | Feldman, Michal, Mauras, Simon, Mohan, Divyarthi, Reiffenhäuser, Rebecca |
| Přispěvatelé: | Mauras, Simon |
| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation. :189-205 |
| Publication Status: | Preprint |
| Informace o vydavateli: | ACM, 2025. |
| Rok vydání: | 2025 |
| Témata: | Interdependent Valuations, Computer Science and Game Theory, FOS: Computer and information sciences, Data Structures and Algorithms, [INFO.INFO-GT] Computer Science [cs]/Computer Science and Game Theory [cs.GT], Combinatorial Auctions, Online Algorithms, Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS), Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT) |
| Popis: | We study online combinatorial allocation problems in the secretary setting, under interdependent values. In the interdependent model, introduced by Milgrom and Weber (1982), each agent possesses a private signal that captures her information about an item for sale, and the value of every agent depends on the signals held by all agents. Mauras, Mohan, and Reiffenhäuser (2024) were the first to study interdependent values in online settings, providing constant-approximation guarantees for secretary settings, where agents arrive online along with their signals and values, and the goal is to select the agent with the highest value. In this work, we extend this framework to {\em combinatorial} secretary problems, where agents have interdependent valuations over {\em bundles} of items, introducing additional challenges due to both combinatorial structure and interdependence. We provide $2e$-competitive algorithms for a broad class of valuation functions, including submodular and XOS functions, matching the approximation guarantees in the single-choice secretary setting. Furthermore, our results cover the same range of valuation classes for which constant-factor algorithms exist in classical (non-interdependent) secretary settings, while incurring only an additional factor of $2$ due to interdependence. Finally, we extend our study to strategic settings, and provide a $4e$-competitive truthful mechanism for online bipartite matching with interdependent valuations, again meeting the frontier of what is known, even without interdependence. |
| Druh dokumentu: | Article Conference object |
| Popis souboru: | application/pdf |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3736252.3742518 |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2507.23500 |
| Přístupová URL adresa: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23500 |
| Rights: | CC BY |
| Přístupové číslo: | edsair.doi.dedup.....d0936125c5ef1b38d1c17b0985141709 |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | We study online combinatorial allocation problems in the secretary setting, under interdependent values. In the interdependent model, introduced by Milgrom and Weber (1982), each agent possesses a private signal that captures her information about an item for sale, and the value of every agent depends on the signals held by all agents. Mauras, Mohan, and Reiffenhäuser (2024) were the first to study interdependent values in online settings, providing constant-approximation guarantees for secretary settings, where agents arrive online along with their signals and values, and the goal is to select the agent with the highest value. In this work, we extend this framework to {\em combinatorial} secretary problems, where agents have interdependent valuations over {\em bundles} of items, introducing additional challenges due to both combinatorial structure and interdependence. We provide $2e$-competitive algorithms for a broad class of valuation functions, including submodular and XOS functions, matching the approximation guarantees in the single-choice secretary setting. Furthermore, our results cover the same range of valuation classes for which constant-factor algorithms exist in classical (non-interdependent) secretary settings, while incurring only an additional factor of $2$ due to interdependence. Finally, we extend our study to strategic settings, and provide a $4e$-competitive truthful mechanism for online bipartite matching with interdependent valuations, again meeting the frontier of what is known, even without interdependence. |
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| DOI: | 10.1145/3736252.3742518 |