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Hadar Tal
dblp:410/5218
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design · 56% Algorithms and data structures · 44% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Algorithms and data structures
dynamic programming |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Optimal Online Bookmaking for Any Number of Outcomes · COLT 2025 |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design › solution concepts in games › equilibrium concepts
subgame perfect equilibrium |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Optimal Online Bookmaking for Any Number of Outcomes · COLT 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
pareto frontier · 0.9hermite polynomials · 0.9dynamic programming · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Optimal Online Bookmaking for Any Number of OutcomesabstractWe study the \emph{Online Bookmaking} problem, where a bookmaker dynamically updates betting odds on the possible outcomes of an event. In each betting round, the bookmaker can adjust the odds based on the cumulative betting behavior of gamblers, aiming to maximize profit while mitigating potential loss. We show that for any event and any number of betting rounds, in a worst-case setting over all possible gamblers and outcome realizations, the bookmaker’s optimal loss is the largest root of a simple polynomial. Our solution shows that bookmakers can be as fair as desired while avoiding financial risk, and the explicit characterization reveals an intriguing relation between the bookmaker’s regret and Hermite polynomials. We develop an efficient algorithm that computes the optimal bookmaking strategy: when facing an optimal gambler, the algorithm achieves the optimal loss, and in rounds where the gambler is suboptimal, it reduces the achieved loss to the \emph{optimal opportunistic} loss, a notion that is related to subgame perfect Nash equilibrium. The key technical contribution to achieve these results is an explicit characterization of the \emph{Bellman-Pareto frontier}, which unifies the dynamic programming updates for Bellman’s value function with the multi-criteria optimization framework of the Pareto frontier in the context of vector repeated games. Hadar Tal, Oron Sabag |
COLT | 1 |