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Samson Alva

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Approximability of deep computations

This is the first of a series of papers in which we study deep computations (ultracomputations) and deep iterates, formalizing the ideas of "asymptotic limit" of computations and compositional iterates, respectively. In this first paper of the series, we characterize deep computations that are bona fide computable, and prove the existence of deep equilibria, which hitherto have been found only empirically in deep learning. A subsequent paper will study the complexity of ultracomputations. Our approach adapts and combines technology from topology of function spaces, structural Ramsey theory, topological dynamics, and model theory.

math.LO

Unambiguous Efficiency of Random Allocations

When allocating indivisible objects via lottery, planners often use ordinal mechanisms, which elicit agents' rankings of objects rather than their full preferences over lotteries. In such an ordinal informational environment, planners cannot differentiate between utility profiles that induce the same ranking of objects. We propose the criterion of unambiguous efficiency: regardless of how each agent extends their preferences over objects to lotteries, the allocation is Pareto efficient with respect to the extended preferences. We compare this with the predominant efficiency criterion used for ordinal mechanisms. As an application to mechanism design, we characterize all efficient and strategy-proof mechanisms satisfying certain regularity conditions.

econ.TH

Choice and Market Design

A textbook chapter on modeling choice behavior and designing institutional choice functions for matching and market design. The chapter is to appear in: Online and Matching-Based Market Design. Federico Echenique, Nicole Immorlica and Vijay V. Vazirani, Editors. Cambridge University Press. 2021

econ.TH