Data Exchange Markets via Utility Balancing

Aditya Bhaskara, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Sungjin Im, Kostas Kollias, Kamesh Munagala, Govind S. Sankar

Keywords: Data markets, Utility balancing, Approximation algorithms, Shapley value, Core stability

Abstract: This paper explores the design of a balanced data-sharing marketplace for entities with heterogeneous datasets and machine learning models that they seek to refine using data from other agents. The goal of the marketplace is to encourage participation for data sharing in the presence of such heterogeneity. Our market design approach for data sharing focuses on interim utility balance, where participants contribute and receive equitable utility from refinement of their models. We present such a market model for which we study computational complexity, solution existence, and approximation algorithms for welfare maximization and core stability. We finally support our theoretical insights with simulations on a mean estimation task inspired by road traffic delay estimation.

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Submission Number: 302