Learning to Persuade on the Fly: Robustness Against Ignorance

arXiv:2102.10156v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Motivated by information sharing in online platforms, we study repeated persuasion between a sender and a stream of receivers where at each time, the sender observes a payoff-relevant state drawn independently and identically from an unknown distribution, and shares state information with the receivers who each choose an action. The sender seeks to persuade the receivers into taking actions aligned with the sender's preference by selectively sharing state information. However, in contrast to the standard …

abstract arxiv cs.gt cs.lg distribution econ.th fly information online platforms persuasion platforms robustness shares state study type