On multiagent online problems with predictions

Gabriel Istrate, Cosmin Bonchis, Victor Bogdan
7/15/2025
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We study the power of (competitive) algorithms with predictions in a multiagent setting. We introduce a two predictor framework, that assumes that agents use one predictor for their future (self) behavior, and one for the behavior of the other players. The main problem we are concerned with is understanding what are the best competitive ratios that can be achieved by employing such predictors, under various assumptions on predictor quality. As an illustration of our framework, we introduce and analyze a multiagent version of the ski-rental problem. In this problem agents can collaborate by pooling resources to get a group license for some asset. If the license price is not met then agents have to rent the asset individually for the day at a unit price. Otherwise the license becomes available forever to everyone at no extra cost. In the particular case of perfect other predictions the algorithm that follows the self predictor is optimal but not robust to mispredictions of agent's future behavior; we give an algorithm with better robustness properties and benchmark it.

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@article{istrate2025multiagent,
  title  = {On multiagent online problems with predictions},
  author = {Gabriel Istrate and Cosmin Bonchis and Victor Bogdan},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2507.12486},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12486v1}
}

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