LIPIcs.ESA.2020.82.pdf
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We give a framework for designing prophet inequalities for combinatorial welfare maximization. Instantiated with different parameters, our framework implies (1) an O(log m / log log m)-competitive prophet inequality for subadditive agents, improving over the O(log m) upper bound via item pricing, (2) an O(D log m / log log m)-competitive prophet inequality for D-approximately subadditive agents, where D ∈ {1, … , m-1} measures the maximum number of items that complement each other, and (3) as a byproduct, an O(1)-competitive prophet inequality for submodular or fractionally subadditive (a.k.a. XOS) agents, matching the optimal ratio asymptotically. Our framework is computationally efficient given sample access to the prior and demand queries.
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