Algorithmic Contract Design for Crowdsourced Ranking: What Was Left Out of Section 3

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Abstract and Introduction

Warm-up: Agents with known equal disutility

Agents with unknown disutilites

Experiments

Conclusions and future directions, References

A Summary of notation

B Omitted proofs from Section 2

C Omitted proofs from Section 3

D Additional Information about Experiments

C Omitted proofs from Section 3

We similarly handle the second case, in which the agent does not exert effort, this time noting that the agent does not experience disutility:

For agent ai to be incentivized to exert effort, the payment needs to be such that:

Using E[|Ci|] < d and simplifying we get the lower bound:

To satisfy individual rationality, we require the following:

which holds if and only if:

which is always satisfied as long as constraint 12 is satisfied.

where the first inequality follows from above. Therefore the optimization problem for a suitable g∗ is the following:

such that:

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