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Improved Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Contracts with Type Constraints

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Qinqin Gong
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Chunlin Hao
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Donglei Du
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Ruiqi Yang *
DOI:10.1007/978-981-95-0215-8_1delete
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We introduce a multi-agent combinatorial contract design problem with type constraints. A principal assigns a task to agents divided into.k types. Agents of each type decide whether to exert costly effort. The principal's reward is a non-negative, monotone, and submodular function of the agents exerting effort across all types. Extending prior work by Dutting et al. (2023) on the single-agent-per-type (k = n) case, we allow multiple agents per type, where.n denotes the number of agents. We formulate the contract design as a bi-level optimization problem, which we transform into a single-level subset selection problem using backward induction. We provide a parameterized approximation algorithm using value and demand query oracles, achieving approximation ratios approximately 5 times better than Dutting et al. (2023) under suitable parameter settings.
Keywords:
Combinatorial contracts
Principal-agent model
Approximation algorithms
Submodularity

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COMPUTING AND COMBINATORICS, COCOON 2025, PT I
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beijing university of technology
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University of New Brunswick
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