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TripleWin: Fixed-Point Equilibrium Pricing for Data-Model Coupled Markets
Ren, Hongrun, Xiong, Yun, You, Lei, Wang, Yingying, Xiong, Haixu, Zhu, Yangyong
The rise of the machine learning (ML) model economy has intertwined markets for training datasets and pre-trained models. However, most pricing approaches still separate data and model transactions or rely on broker-centric pipelines that favor one side. Recent studies of data markets with externalities capture buyer interactions but do not yield a simultaneous and symmetric mechanism across data sellers, model producers, and model buyers. We propose a unified data-model coupled market that treats dataset and model trading as a single system. A supply-side mapping transforms dataset payments into buyer-visible model quotations, while a demand-side mapping propagates buyer prices back to datasets through Shapley-based allocation. Together, they form a closed loop that links four interactions: supply-demand propagation in both directions and mutual coupling among buyers and among sellers. We prove that the joint operator is a standard interference function (SIF), guaranteeing existence, uniqueness, and global convergence of equilibrium prices. Experiments demonstrate efficient convergence and improved fairness compared with broker-centric and one-sided baselines. The code is available on https://github.com/HongrunRen1109/Triple-Win-Pricing.
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This is an excellent point. We remark here that the same fix applied to the L ˇ C complex will help correct [3]. R3: Using topology to guide active sample acquisition. Our "model marketplace" application is different from Training classifiers with a coreset of 300 data points sampled by active learning/passive learning.
Data Pricing for Graph Neural Networks without Pre-purchased Inspection
Liu, Yiping, Zhang, Mengxiao, Liu, Jiamou, Yang, Song
Machine learning (ML) models have become essential tools in various scenarios. Their effectiveness, however, hinges on a substantial volume of data for satisfactory performance. Model marketplaces have thus emerged as crucial platforms bridging model consumers seeking ML solutions and data owners possessing valuable data. These marketplaces leverage model trading mechanisms to properly incentive data owners to contribute their data, and return a well performing ML model to the model consumers. However, existing model trading mechanisms often assume the data owners are willing to share their data before being paid, which is not reasonable in real world. Given that, we propose a novel mechanism, named Structural Importance based Model Trading (SIMT) mechanism, that assesses the data importance and compensates data owners accordingly without disclosing the data. Specifically, SIMT procures feature and label data from data owners according to their structural importance, and then trains a graph neural network for model consumers. Theoretically, SIMT ensures incentive compatible, individual rational and budget feasible. The experiments on five popular datasets validate that SIMT consistently outperforms vanilla baselines by up to $40\%$ in both MacroF1 and MicroF1.
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Moderating Model Marketplaces: Platform Governance Puzzles for AI Intermediaries
The AI development community is increasingly making use of hosting intermediaries such as Hugging Face provide easy access to user-uploaded models and training data. These model marketplaces lower technical deployment barriers for hundreds of thousands of users, yet can be used in numerous potentially harmful and illegal ways. In this article, we explain ways in which AI systems, which can both `contain' content and be open-ended tools, present one of the trickiest platform governance challenges seen to date. We provide case studies of several incidents across three illustrative platforms -- Hugging Face, GitHub and Civitai -- to examine how model marketplaces moderate models. Building on this analysis, we outline important (and yet nevertheless limited) practices that industry has been developing to respond to moderation demands: licensing, access and use restrictions, automated content moderation, and open policy development. While the policy challenge at hand is a considerable one, we conclude with some ideas as to how platforms could better mobilize resources to act as a careful, fair, and proportionate regulatory access point.
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7 Artificial Intelligence Trends and How They Work With Operational Machine Learning
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more prevalent and every industry races to develop AI solutions to advance their use cases, practical challenges have arisen around production deployment. In my previous blog post [1], I described a process for taking machine learning (ML) experiments to production deployments. In this follow up post, I outline seven AI industry trends that help users simplify and scale the overall ML lifecycle. We describe each trend, discuss why it matters for operational ML and what factors should be considered as a business decides to exploit a trend to accelerate or improve their operational ML practice. Figure 1 shows a typical machine learning (ML) lifecycle.