Jakob de Raaij

2 accepted papers

2025

Does Representation Guarantee Welfare?

Jakob de Raaij, Ariel D. Procaccia, Alexandros Psomas

NeurIPS 2025poster

A panel satisfies *descriptive representation* when its composition reflects the population. We examine the role of descriptive representation in collective decision making through an optimization lens, asking whether representative panels make decisions that maximize social welfare for the underlyi…

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2025

Lower Bound on Howard Policy Iteration for Deterministic Markov Decision Processes

Ali Asadi, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Jakob de Raaij

UAI 2025

Deterministic Markov Decision Processes (DMDPs) are a mathematical framework for decision-making where the outcomes and future possible actions are deterministically determined by the current action taken. DMDPs can be viewed as a finite directed weighted graph, where in each step, the controller ch

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