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Coordinating Users of Shared Facilities via Data-driven Predictive Assistants and Game Theory

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Besserve,  M
Department Physiology of Cognitive Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

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Schölkopf,  B
Dept. Empirical Inference, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Max Planck Society;

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Geiger, P., Besserve, M., Winkelmann, J., Proissl, C., & Schölkopf, B. (2019). Coordinating Users of Shared Facilities via Data-driven Predictive Assistants and Game Theory. In 35th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2019) (pp. 286-295). Red Hook, NY, USA: Curran.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-7253-E
Abstract
We study data-driven assistants that provide congestion forecasts to users of shared facilities (roads, cafeterias, etc.), to support coordination between them, and increase efficiency of such collective systems. Key questions are: (1) when and how much can (accurate) predictions help for coordination, and (2) which assistant algorithms reach optimal predictions?
First we lay conceptual ground for this setting where user preferences are a priori unknown and predictions influence outcomes. Addressing (1), we establish conditions under which self-fulfilling prophecies, i.e., "perfect" (probabilistic) predictions of what will happen, solve the coordination problem in the game-theoretic sense of selecting a Bayesian Nash equilibrium (BNE). Next we prove that such prophecies exist even in large-scale settings where only aggregated statistics about users are available. This entails a new (nonatomic) BNE existence result. Addressing (2), we propose two assistant algorithms that sequentially learn from users' reactions, together with optimality/convergence guarantees. We validate one of them in a large real-world experiment.