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arxiv: 2502.03574 · v1 · pith:IKEN6X4Ynew · submitted 2025-02-05 · 💻 cs.DS

Pandora with Inaccurate Priors

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We investigate the role of inaccurate priors for the classical Pandora's box problem. In the classical Pandora's box problem we are given a set of boxes each with a known cost and an unknown value sampled from a known distribution. We investigate how inaccuracies in the beliefs can affect existing algorithms. Specifically, we assume that the knowledge of the underlying distribution has a small error in the Kolmogorov distance, and study how this affects the utility obtained by the optimal algorithm.

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