Single-Sample Prophet Inequalities via Greedy-Ordered Selection
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| author | Caramanis, Constantine Dütting, Paul Faw, Matthew Fusco, Federico Lazos, Philip Leonardi, Stefano Papadigenopoulos, Orestis Pountourakis, Emmanouil Reiffenhäuser, Rebecca |
| author_facet | Caramanis, Constantine Dütting, Paul Faw, Matthew Fusco, Federico Lazos, Philip Leonardi, Stefano Papadigenopoulos, Orestis Pountourakis, Emmanouil Reiffenhäuser, Rebecca |
| contents | We study single-sample prophet inequalities (SSPIs), i.e., prophet inequalities where only a single sample from each prior distribution is available. Besides a direct, and optimal, SSPI for the basic single choice problem [Rubinstein et al., 2020], most existing SSPI results were obtained via an elegant, but inherently lossy, reduction to order-oblivious secretary (OOS) policies [Azar et al., 2014]. Motivated by this discrepancy, we develop an intuitive and versatile greedy-based technique that yields SSPIs directly rather than through the reduction to OOSs. Our results can be seen as generalizing and unifying a number of existing results in the area of prophet and secretary problems. Our algorithms significantly improve on the competitive guarantees for a number of interesting scenarios (including general matching with edge arrivals, bipartite matching with vertex arrivals, and certain matroids), and capture new settings (such as budget additive combinatorial auctions). Complementing our algorithmic results, we also consider mechanism design variants. Finally, we analyze the power and limitations of different SSPI approaches by providing a partial converse to the reduction from SSPI to OOS given by Azar et al. |
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| spellingShingle | Single-Sample Prophet Inequalities via Greedy-Ordered Selection Caramanis, Constantine Dütting, Paul Faw, Matthew Fusco, Federico Lazos, Philip Leonardi, Stefano Papadigenopoulos, Orestis Pountourakis, Emmanouil Reiffenhäuser, Rebecca Data Structures and Algorithms Computer Science and Game Theory We study single-sample prophet inequalities (SSPIs), i.e., prophet inequalities where only a single sample from each prior distribution is available. Besides a direct, and optimal, SSPI for the basic single choice problem [Rubinstein et al., 2020], most existing SSPI results were obtained via an elegant, but inherently lossy, reduction to order-oblivious secretary (OOS) policies [Azar et al., 2014]. Motivated by this discrepancy, we develop an intuitive and versatile greedy-based technique that yields SSPIs directly rather than through the reduction to OOSs. Our results can be seen as generalizing and unifying a number of existing results in the area of prophet and secretary problems. Our algorithms significantly improve on the competitive guarantees for a number of interesting scenarios (including general matching with edge arrivals, bipartite matching with vertex arrivals, and certain matroids), and capture new settings (such as budget additive combinatorial auctions). Complementing our algorithmic results, we also consider mechanism design variants. Finally, we analyze the power and limitations of different SSPI approaches by providing a partial converse to the reduction from SSPI to OOS given by Azar et al. |
| title | Single-Sample Prophet Inequalities via Greedy-Ordered Selection |
| topic | Data Structures and Algorithms Computer Science and Game Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03174 |