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Reasoning in Bayesian Opinion Exchange Networks Is PSPACE-Hard

Hązła, Jan and Jadbabaie, Ali and Mossel, Elchanan and Rahimian, M Amin Reasoning in Bayesian Opinion Exchange Networks Is PSPACE-Hard.

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Abstract

We study the Bayesian model of opinion exchange of fully rational agents arranged on a network. In this model, the agents receive private signals that are indicative of an unkown state of the world. Then, they repeatedly announce the state of the world they consider most likely to their neighbors, at the same time updating their beliefs based on their neighbors' announcements. This model is extensively studied in economics since the work of Aumann (1976) and Geanakoplos and Polemarchakis (1982). It is known that the agents eventually agree with high probability on any network. It is often argued that the computations needed by agents in this model are difficult, but prior to our results there was no rigorous work showing this hardness. We show that it is PSPACE-hard for the agents to compute their actions in this model. Furthermore, we show that it is equally difficult even to approximate an agent's posterior: It is PSPACE-hard to distinguish between the posterior being almost entirely concentrated on one state of the world or another.


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Item Type: Article
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Hązła, Jan
Jadbabaie, Ali
Mossel, Elchanan
Rahimian, M AminRAHIMIAN@pitt.eduRAHIMIAN0000-0001-9384-1041
Schools and Programs: Swanson School of Engineering > Industrial Engineering
Refereed: Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords: cs.CC, cs.CC, cs.GT, cs.SI, math.PR
Date Deposited: 17 Aug 2020 17:12
Last Modified: 05 Sep 2024 14:55
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/39625

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