Whose Opinion to Follow in Multihypothesis Social Learning? A Large Deviations Perspective

• Main Author: Tay, Wee Peng
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Decentralized detection; Social learning
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81388; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43460
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We consider a multihypothesis social learning problem in which an agent has access to a set of private observations and chooses an opinion from a set of experts to incorporate into its final decision. To model individual biases, we allow the agent and experts to have general loss functions and possi...