Many decision-making processes rely on evaluating and selecting items—such as in scientific peer review, research funding, and school or university admissions. Increasingly, there's growing interest in introducing randomization into these selection processes, with several real-world implementations already in place. With research funding selection as a running application, in this (blackboard/whiteboard) talk we will discuss this broader problem space and a specific problem setting in randomized selection. We will discuss existing deployments and their drawbacks, and propose theoretically-grounded methods for integrating randomness into these critical decisions. Based on joint work with Alexander Goldberg and Giulia Fanti.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.19083
Zoom Link: https://icts-res-in.zoom.us/j/95228655628?pwd=HE6uROBHF1azeUabCsKonpOXEd8ajG.1
Meeting ID: 952 2865 5628
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