Approximately Strategy-proof Mechanisms for (Constrained) Facility Location
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Abstract
Mechanism design for facility location (or selection of al-ternatives in a metric space) has been studied for decades. While strategy-proof, efficient mechanisms exist for uncon-strained, one-dimensional, single-facility problems, guaran-tees of strategy-proofness and efficiency often break when allowing: (a) multiple dimensions; (b) multiple facilities; or (c) constraints on the feasible placement of facilities. We address these more general problems, providing several pos-sibility/impossibility results with respect to individual and group strategy-proofness in both constrained and uncon-strained problems. We also bound the incentive for manipu-lation in median-like mechanisms in settings where strategy-proofness is not possible. We complement our results with empirical analysis of both electoral and geographic facility data, showing that the odds of successful manipulation, and more importantly, the gains and impact on social welfare, are small in practice (much less than worst-case theoretical bounds).
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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