Defection-Free Collaboration between Competitors in a Learning System

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Autores principales: Werner, Mariel, Karimireddy, Sai Praneeth, Jordan, Michael I.
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Publicado: 2024
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author Werner, Mariel
Karimireddy, Sai Praneeth
Jordan, Michael I.
author_facet Werner, Mariel
Karimireddy, Sai Praneeth
Jordan, Michael I.
contents We study collaborative learning systems in which the participants are competitors who will defect from the system if they lose revenue by collaborating. As such, we frame the system as a duopoly of competitive firms who are each engaged in training machine-learning models and selling their predictions to a market of consumers. We first examine a fully collaborative scheme in which both firms share their models with each other and show that this leads to a market collapse with the revenues of both firms going to zero. We next show that one-sided collaboration in which only the firm with the lower-quality model shares improves the revenue of both firms. Finally, we propose a more equitable, *defection-free* scheme in which both firms share with each other while losing no revenue, and we show that our algorithm converges to the Nash bargaining solution.
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spellingShingle Defection-Free Collaboration between Competitors in a Learning System
Werner, Mariel
Karimireddy, Sai Praneeth
Jordan, Michael I.
Computer Science and Game Theory
Machine Learning
We study collaborative learning systems in which the participants are competitors who will defect from the system if they lose revenue by collaborating. As such, we frame the system as a duopoly of competitive firms who are each engaged in training machine-learning models and selling their predictions to a market of consumers. We first examine a fully collaborative scheme in which both firms share their models with each other and show that this leads to a market collapse with the revenues of both firms going to zero. We next show that one-sided collaboration in which only the firm with the lower-quality model shares improves the revenue of both firms. Finally, we propose a more equitable, *defection-free* scheme in which both firms share with each other while losing no revenue, and we show that our algorithm converges to the Nash bargaining solution.
title Defection-Free Collaboration between Competitors in a Learning System
topic Computer Science and Game Theory
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15898