论文标题
竞争减轻当前的任务完成偏见
Competition Alleviates Present Bias in Task Completion
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论文摘要
我们基于最近的工作[Kleinberg and Oren，2014年； Kleinberg等，2016，2017]，它考虑了有偏见的代理商，他们现在必须承担的成本比将来会产生的成本更大。他们考虑了一个图理论模型，其中代理必须完成任务，并表明当前的有偏见的代理可以比最佳选择更昂贵的路径。我们提出了一个理论模型，将竞争加入组合中 - 两个代理商首先竞争完成任务。我们表明，在广泛的环境中，少量竞争可以减轻当前偏见的危害。这可以有助于解释为什么在自然竞争的环境中偏见的代理可能不会表现如此差，并且可以指导任务设计师如何保护当前有偏见的代理免受伤害。因此，我们的作品比目前偏见的许多现有文献更为积极。
We build upon recent work [Kleinberg and Oren, 2014, Kleinberg et al., 2016, 2017] that considers present biased agents, who place more weight on costs they must incur now than costs they will incur in the future. They consider a graph theoretic model where agents must complete a task and show that present biased agents can take exponentially more expensive paths than optimal. We propose a theoretical model that adds competition into the mix -- two agents compete to finish a task first. We show that, in a wide range of settings, a small amount of competition can alleviate the harms of present bias. This can help explain why biased agents may not perform so poorly in naturally competitive settings, and can guide task designers on how to protect present biased agents from harm. Our work thus paints a more positive picture than much of the existing literature on present bias.
