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An Algorithmic Theory of Simplicity in Mechanism Design
Diodato Ferraioli, Carmine Ventre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08610 https://ar…

An Algorithmic Theory of Simplicity in Mechanism Design
A growing body of work in economics and computation focuses on the trade-off between implementability and simplicity in mechanism design. The goal is to develop a theory that not only allows to design an incentive structure easy to grasp for imperfectly rational agents, but also understand the ensuing limitations on the class of mechanisms that enforce it. In this context, the concept of OSP mechanisms has assumed a prominent role since they provably account for the absence of contingent reason…

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RORA: Robust Free-Text Rationale Evaluation
Free-text rationales play a pivotal role in explainable NLP, bridging the knowledge and reasoning gaps behind a model's decision-making. However, due to the diversity of potential reasoning paths and a corresponding lack of definitive ground truth, their evaluation remains a challenge. Existing evaluation metrics rely on the degree to which a rationale supports a target label, but we find these fall short in evaluating rationales that inadvertently leak the labels. To address this problem, we p…

Yesterday’s ruling was a 9-person act of craven cowardice, not a rational legal determination.
States control their ballots. Presidents are elected by the Electoral College, which consists of electors who are state-appointed based on mostly statewide votes. Some states elect electors by Congressional district, whose lines are state-defined.
That system is a fucked-up mess, but as long as we have that, states clearly have the responsibility to gatekeep their ballots.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05679 has been replaced.
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A spatial-temporal weight analysis and novel nonlinear weights of weighted essentially non-oscillatory schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws
In this paper we analyze the weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) schemes in the finite volume framework by examining the first step of the explicit third-order total variation diminishing Runge-Kutta method. The rationale for the improved performance of the finite volume WENO-M, WENO-Z and WENO-ZR schemes over WENO-JS in the first time step is that the nonlinear weights corresponding to large errors are adjusted to increase the accuracy of numerical solutions. Based on this analysis, we…

"European countries treat defense policy as a national responsibility. Because most individual countries face few direct security threats, their governments, quite rationally, invest little in defense. Yet Europe as a whole does require protection from the grave threat of a revanchist Russia, and it must address the security risks that stem from a volatile periphery stretching from the Sahel to the South Caucasus."

A More European NATO
Defense spending alone cannot fix the alliance’s overdependence on the United States.

An Algorithmic Theory of Simplicity in Mechanism Design
Diodato Ferraioli, Carmine Ventre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08610 https://ar…

An Algorithmic Theory of Simplicity in Mechanism Design
A growing body of work in economics and computation focuses on the trade-off between implementability and simplicity in mechanism design. The goal is to develop a theory that not only allows to design an incentive structure easy to grasp for imperfectly rational agents, but also understand the ensuing limitations on the class of mechanisms that enforce it. In this context, the concept of OSP mechanisms has assumed a prominent role since they provably account for the absence of contingent reason…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18678 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

RORA: Robust Free-Text Rationale Evaluation
Free-text rationales play a pivotal role in explainable NLP, bridging the knowledge and reasoning gaps behind a model's decision-making. However, due to the diversity of potential reasoning paths and a corresponding lack of definitive ground truth, their evaluation remains a challenge. Existing evaluation metrics rely on the degree to which a rationale supports a target label, but we find these fall short in evaluating rationales that inadvertently leak the labels. To address this problem, we p…

Yesterday’s ruling was a 9-person act of craven cowardice, not a rational legal determination.
States control their ballots. Presidents are elected by the Electoral College, which consists of electors who are state-appointed based on mostly statewide votes. Some states elect electors by Congressional district, whose lines are state-defined.
That system is a fucked-up mess, but as long as we have that, states clearly have the responsibility to gatekeep their ballots.

"European countries treat defense policy as a national responsibility. Because most individual countries face few direct security threats, their governments, quite rationally, invest little in defense. Yet Europe as a whole does require protection from the grave threat of a revanchist Russia, and it must address the security risks that stem from a volatile periphery stretching from the Sahel to the South Caucasus."

A More European NATO
Defense spending alone cannot fix the alliance’s overdependence on the United States.