Prophet inequality
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Prophet inequality
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In the theory of online algorithms and optimal stopping, a prophet inequality is a bound on the expected value of a decision-making process that handles a sequence of random inputs from known probability distributions, relative to the expected value that could be achieved by a "prophet" who knows all the inputs ahead of time. These inequalities have applications in the theory of algorithmic mechanism design and mathematical finance.
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Bound on optimal stopping in random sequences
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophet_inequality
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2023-08-13T07:04:12Z
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