Information Design

Ask about this topic

Overview

Information design asks how a sender or platform should reveal, hide, or organize information when recipients use it to make decisions. Common approaches include Bayesian persuasion, signaling and disclosure models, mechanism design, and computational methods such as linear programs and deep learning. Applications range from marketplaces and strategic games to school choice and human-AI decision systems, where information can affect welfare, revenue, fairness, and market concentration. A central challenge is that the same disclosure can help one goal while harming another, especially when recipients interpret signals strategically or learn to game the system.

Latest papers

CardsList

15 papers3 papers in the last four weeks, against 2 the four weeks before. 0.0% of all new papers.

  1. Fundamental Impossibility Results in AI Safety: Trading Off between Desiderata

    Oct 19, 2026Ida Mattsson, Ratip Emin Berker, Emanuel Tewolde +11AI SafetyInformation Design

    Carnegie Mellon University · Bar-Ilan University · Czech Technical University +1

  2. Honesty is the Best Policy ... or is it? Demand Management for Probabilistic Service Options

    Oct 15, 2026Daniela Sailer, Robert Klein, Claudius SteinhardtInformation DesignSupply Chain Management

    Chair of Analytics & Optimization, University of Augsburg · Chair of Business Analytics & Management Science, University of the Bundeswehr Munich

  3. The Double-Edged Sword of Information: Revealed versus Hidden Lotteries in School Choice

    Sep 28, 2026Parinaz Naghizadeh, Jingyan WangSocial Choice TheoryInformation Design

    University of California, San Diego · Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

  4. Information Design in Smooth Games

    Sep 14, 2026Alex Smolin, Takuro YamashitaGame TheoryInformation Design

    Toulouse School of Economics, University of Toulouse Capitole and CEPR · Osaka University

  5. Information Design Against Gaming and Learning Adversaries

    Sep 12, 2026Madhava GaikwadInformation DesignStrategic Classification

    Independent Researcher, Bengaluru, India

  6. When Shippers Become Algorithms: Candidate Exposure, Information Design, and the Concentration of LLM-Mediated Freight Markets

    Jul 22, 2026Takahiro Ezaki, Naoto Imura, Katsuhiro NishinariLLM AgentsInformation Design

    Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan · aResearch Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan · bDepartment of Aeronautics and Astronautics, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan

  7. Quantifying Theoretical AI Alignment Guarantees: Receiver-Utility Bounds in Bayesian Persuasion

    Jun 20, 2026Eric Yachbes, Eva TardosAI AlignmentInformation Design

    Cornell University, United States

  8. Partial Fairness Awareness: Belief-Guided Strategic Mechanism for Strategic Agents

    May 30, 2026Xinpeng Lv, Chunyuan Zheng, Yunxin Mao +8Strategic ClassificationMechanism Design

    National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China · Peking University, Beijing, China · Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China +2

  9. Comparing Market Mechanism Efficiencies

    May 29, 2026Irene AldridgeMechanism DesignQuantitative Finance

  10. Algorithmic Feature Highlighting for Human-AI Decision-Making

    Apr 24, 2026Yifan Guo, Jann SpiessInformation DesignFeature Selection

    Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

  11. Agent-Facing Information Design in LLM Tool Registries: A Preregistered Test of Rhetoric, Position and Structure

    Apr 12, 2026Haochuan Kevin Wang, Zechen ZhangTool-Use EvaluationTool-Augmented Language Model Agents

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

  12. Show Me the Infographic I Imagine: Intent-Aware Infographic Retrieval for Authoring Support

    Apr 9, 2026Jing Xu, Jiarui Hu, Zhihao Shuai +2Information RetrievalVisual Document Retrieval

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Nanjing University

  13. Intertemporal Demand Allocation for Inventory Control in Online Marketplaces

    Apr 8, 2026Rene Caldentey, Tong XieE-CommerceOnline Resource Allocation

    Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637

  14. Robust Information Design for Multi-Agent Systems with Complementarities: Smallest-Equilibrium Threshold Policies

    Feb 26, 2026Farzaneh Farhadi, Maria ChliInformation DesignMulti-Agent Coordination

    Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom

  15. Data Market Design through Deep Learning

    Oct 31, 2023Sai Srivatsa Ravindranath, Yanchen Jiang, David C. ParkesMechanism DesignInformation Design

    Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences