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Safety in Numbers: Asymptotic Analysis of a Monitoring Problem

Inovan, Reka  
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Telatar, Emre  
January 1, 2022
2022 Ieee Information Theory Workshop (Itw)
IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW)

In this work, we introduce a setup where a monitoring entity attempts to distinguish a cheating player among a group of regular players where all players behave in order to maximize their reward. We assume that the cheating player has an "information advantage" compared to the regular players. However, greedily exploiting this advantage will lead to the cheating player being easily distinguishable from its peers. Hence there is a tension between exploitation of the said advantage and the probability of being caught. We characterize this trade-off showing that the cheating player can obtain a higher reward as the number of regular players grows. We also show that, under a certain regime, a monitoring strategy based on the empirical divergence function attains the same normalized reward as the minimax reward.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/ITW54588.2022.9965798
Web of Science ID

WOS:000904341100130

Author(s)
Inovan, Reka  
Telatar, Emre  
Date Issued

2022-01-01

Publisher

IEEE

Publisher place

New York

Published in
2022 Ieee Information Theory Workshop (Itw)
ISBN of the book

978-1-6654-8341-4

Series title/Series vol.

Information Theory Workshop

Start page

768

End page

773

Subjects

Computer Science, Information Systems

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Computer Science, Theory & Methods

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Mathematics, Applied

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Computer Science

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Mathematics

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monitoring problem

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empirical divergence

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minimax reward

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method of type

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game

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW)

Mumbai, INDIA

Nov 01-09, 2022

Available on Infoscience
February 13, 2023
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/194742
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