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Information Asymmetry in Queues with Strategic Customers
Shunan Zheng, John Hasenbein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09899 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09899

Information Asymmetry in Queues with Strategic Customers
This paper studies information asymmetry in an unobservable single-server queueing system. While system managers have knowledge of the true arrival rate, customers may lack this information and instead form arbitrary beliefs. We propose a three-tier hierarchy of information asymmetry with increasing levels of information disclosure:customers keep private beliefs, customers are aware of the beliefs of others, and customers know the true arrival rate. Within this framework, the effects of the bel…

SMILE: SeMantic Ids Enhanced CoLd Item Representation for Click-through Rate Prediction in E-commerce SEarch
Qihang Zhao, Zhongbo Sun, Xiaoyang Zheng, Xian Guo, Siyuan Wang, Zihan Liang, Mingcan Peng, Ben Chen, Chenyi Lei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12604

SMILE: SeMantic Ids Enhanced CoLd Item Representation for Click-through Rate Prediction in E-commerce SEarch
With the rise of modern search and recommendation platforms, insufficient collaborative information of cold-start items exacerbates the Matthew effect of existing platform items, challenging platform diversity and becoming a longstanding issue. Existing methods align items' side content with collaborative information to transfer collaborative signals from high-popularity items to cold-start items. However, these methods fail to account for the asymmetry between collaboration and content, nor th…

Binary Option Market Manipulation by Influencing Belief Dynamics
Henry Waldhausen, Christopher Griffin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05785 https://arxiv.org/p…

Binary Option Market Manipulation by Influencing Belief Dynamics
Using techniques from information geometry, we construct a semi-Hamiltonian system modelling trader beliefs in a binary asset market and study the impact of inequality or asymmetry in beliefs, information, and power on price dynamics. We show that in a market with no inequality and $N$ completely symmetric traders, the resulting dynamics evolve on a $2N + 1$ dimensional manifold consisting of a $2N-2$ dimensional centre manifold, a $2$ dimensional stable manifold and a $1$ dimensional slow mani…

Bridging the Trust Gap in Crowdfunding: A Novel Expert-Based Evaluation Mechanism
Issam Hosni, Omar Talbi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23378 https://arxiv.or…

Bridging the Trust Gap in Crowdfunding: A Novel Expert-Based Evaluation Mechanism
Crowdfunding has emerged as a vital alternative funding source, transforming how creative projects and startups secure financing by directly connecting creators to backers. However, persistent trust issues and information asymmetry between creators and backers significantly hinder its growth and development. Existing trust-enhancement mechanisms, such as third-party endorsements and basic expert validation often lack objectivity and robustness, leaving backers vulnerable to biased signals and p…