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authorThibaut Horel <thibaut.horel@gmail.com>2013-12-16 17:23:26 -0500
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@@ -31,8 +31,7 @@ $\sigma^2$ is the noise variance). Then, \E\ estimates $\beta$ through
\emph{maximum a posteriori estimation}: \emph{i.e.}, finding the parameter
which maximizes the posterior distribution of $\beta$ given the observations
$y_S$. Under the linearity assumption and the Gaussian prior on $\beta$,
-maximum a posteriori estimation leads to the following maximization
-\cite{hastie}:
+maximum a posteriori estimation leads to \cite{hastie}:
\begin{align}
\begin{split}
\hat{\beta} = \textstyle\argmax_{\beta\in\reals^d} \prob(\beta\mid y_S)
@@ -159,7 +158,7 @@ We relax the notion of truthfulness to \emph{$\delta$-truthfulness}, requiring t
In addition, we would like the allocation $S(c)$ to be of maximal value; however, $\delta$-truthfulness, as well as the hardness of \EDP{}, preclude achieving this goal. Hence, we seek mechanisms with that are \emph{$(\alpha,\beta)$-approximate}, \emph{i.e.}, there exist $\alpha\geq 1$ and $\beta>0$ s.t.~$OPT \leq \alpha V(S(c))+\beta$, and are \emph{computationally efficient}, in that $S$ and $p$ can be computed in polynomial time.
We note that the constant approximation algorithm \eqref{eq:max-algorithm} breaks
-truthfulness. Though this is not true for all submodular functions (see, \emph{e.g.}, \cite{singer-mechanisms}), it is true for the objective of \EDP{}: we show this in \cite{arxiv}. This motivates our study of more complex mechanisms.
+truthfulness. Though this is not true for all submodular functions (see, \emph{e.g.}, \cite{singer-mechanisms}), it is true for the objective of \EDP{}: we show this in \cite{arxiv}, motivating our study of more complex mechanisms.
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As noted in \cite{singer-mechanisms, chen}, budget feasible reverse auctions are \emph{single parameter} auctions: each agent has only one