{"id":1050,"date":"2025-08-06T17:22:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mll.iiit.ac.in\/?page_id=1050"},"modified":"2025-08-07T05:14:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T05:14:27","slug":"blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mll.iiit.ac.in\/index.php\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1076 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized tag-civic-crowdfunding tag-ethereum tag-mechanism-design\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mll.iiit.ac.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/designing-refund-bonus-schemes-for-provision-point-mechanism-in-civic-crowdfunding\/\" target=\"_self\" >Designing Refund Bonus Schemes for Provision Point Mechanism in Civic Crowdfunding<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">TL;DR.&nbsp;Civic crowdfunding, the process of raising voluntary contributions from interested agents for&nbsp;public&nbsp;projects, such as public parks, libraries, etc., has grown in popularity in recent decades. As these projects are non-excludable, strategic agents often&nbsp;free-ride, i.e., choose not to contribute. To address this, researchers have used&nbsp;incentive engineering&nbsp;to construct mechanisms that&nbsp;incentivize&nbsp;strategic agents to contribute. This incentive is in&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mll.iiit.ac.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/designing-refund-bonus-schemes-for-provision-point-mechanism-in-civic-crowdfunding\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1074 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized tag-blockchain tag-distributed-ledgers tag-game-theory tag-peer-to-peer-networks\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mll.iiit.ac.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/ashwachain-a-fast-scalable-and-strategy-proof-committee-based-blockchain-protocol\/\" target=\"_self\" >ASHWAChain: A Fast, Scalable and Strategy-proof Committee-based Blockchain Protocol<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Appeared at: Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE)Authors: Sanidhay Arora, Anurag Jain, Sankarshan Damle, Sujit Gujar Abstract.&nbsp;Most cryptocurrencies are practically limited, mostly because of their significant time to finality and lack of scalability. Moreover, most of the existing literature for blockchain consensus protocols assumes the miners as honest. The assumption results in the protocols&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mll.iiit.ac.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/ashwachain-a-fast-scalable-and-strategy-proof-committee-based-blockchain-protocol\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1072 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized tag-mechanism-design tag-multi-armed-bandit tag-online-learning\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mll.iiit.ac.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/designing-truthful-contextual-multi-armed-bandits-based-sponsored-search-auctions\/\" target=\"_self\" >Designing Truthful Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits based Sponsored Search Auctions<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">In this work, we consider the contextual multi-armed bandit problem in the presence of strategic agents in the context of sponsored search auction. In this setting, an advertising platform (center) runs a repeated auction to select the best-suited ads relevant to the user\u2019s query. The center aspires to select an ad that has a high&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mll.iiit.ac.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/designing-truthful-contextual-multi-armed-bandits-based-sponsored-search-auctions\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1076 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized tag-civic-crowdfunding tag-ethereum tag-mechanism-design\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mll.iiit.ac.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/designing-refund-bonus-schemes-for-provision-point-mechanism-in-civic-crowdfunding\/\" target=\"_self\" >Designing Refund Bonus Schemes for Provision Point Mechanism in Civic Crowdfunding<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">TL;DR.&nbsp;Civic crowdfunding, the process of raising voluntary contributions from interested agents for&nbsp;public&nbsp;projects, such as public parks, libraries, etc., has grown in popularity in recent decades. As these projects are non-excludable, strategic agents often&nbsp;free-ride, i.e., choose not to contribute. To address this, researchers have used&nbsp;incentive engineering&nbsp;to construct mechanisms that&nbsp;incentivize&nbsp;strategic agents to contribute. This incentive is in&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1074 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized tag-blockchain tag-distributed-ledgers tag-game-theory tag-peer-to-peer-networks\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mll.iiit.ac.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/ashwachain-a-fast-scalable-and-strategy-proof-committee-based-blockchain-protocol\/\" target=\"_self\" >ASHWAChain: A Fast, Scalable and Strategy-proof Committee-based Blockchain Protocol<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Appeared at: Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE)Authors: Sanidhay Arora, Anurag Jain, Sankarshan Damle, Sujit Gujar Abstract.&nbsp;Most cryptocurrencies are practically limited, mostly because of their significant time to finality and lack of scalability. Moreover, most of the existing literature for blockchain consensus protocols assumes the miners as honest. The assumption results in the protocols&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1072 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized tag-mechanism-design tag-multi-armed-bandit tag-online-learning\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mll.iiit.ac.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/designing-truthful-contextual-multi-armed-bandits-based-sponsored-search-auctions\/\" target=\"_self\" >Designing Truthful Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits based Sponsored Search Auctions<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">In this work, we consider the contextual multi-armed bandit problem in the presence of strategic agents in the context of sponsored search auction. In this setting, an advertising platform (center) runs a repeated auction to select the best-suited ads relevant to the user\u2019s query. The center aspires to select an ad that has a high&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1050","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mll.iiit.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mll.iiit.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mll.iiit.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mll.iiit.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mll.iiit.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mll.iiit.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/mll.iiit.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1050\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mll.iiit.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}