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Academic Seminar (Course)EE SEMINAR: Information Design and Timeliness in Future Communication..

Information plays a pivotal role in most modern learning, control, and communication systems. The rise of modern IoT technologies like self-driving cars, augmented reality, and real-time surveillance systems has highlighted the crucial need for time-sensitive information. Beyond timeliness, in domains like online advertising and learning, where information receivers actively make decisions, the actions of the information receivers can impact both the utility of information providers and receivers. Consequently, information providers must strategically craft information to maximize their own utility. In this seminar, I will talk about how problems related to timeliness and information design arise in communication networks in various system settings. Specifically, I will talk about time-varying binary information dissemination over a network of gossiping agents. Here, I will discuss when gossiping can be helpful (or harmful) as it may cause accurate (or incorrect) information to disseminate further in the network. Next, different from the classical communication settings where the objectives of the information provider(s) and the receivers are aligned, I will discuss more general scenarios where the information providers and receiver have misaligned objectives. Modeling this interaction as a hierarchical strategic communication game between multiple senders and the receiver, I will discuss how the competition among multiple senders (due to their misaligned objectives) is beneficial for the receiver. Lastly, I will briefly talk about the extension of our work to an online setting where the sender does not know the receivers interest and mention our experimental design framework to test spite and probability bias in Bayesian Persuasion.

05.03.2024 - All DayOnline