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Learning from Acceptance: Cumulative Regret in the Game of Coding

Hanzaleh Akbari Nodehi, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Parsa Moradi

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keywords game of codingcumulative regretincomplete informationStackelberg leaderacceptance rulesstrategic adversarysublinear regretdecentralized systems

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A data collector learns an adversary's unknown utility trade-off to achieve sublinear cumulative regret across all acceptance rules in repeated coding games.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper models strategic interactions in decentralized data collection as an incomplete-information game of coding, where an adversary submits data to maximize its own utility while the collector chooses acceptance rules without knowing that utility. It shows that an algorithm refining its choices around promising rules, based on observed outcomes, bounds the total performance loss over many rounds to grow slower than linearly. A sympathetic reader would care because this removes the need for strong upfront trust assumptions in open systems, letting performance improve steadily as interactions continue rather than only at the end. The work contrasts with prior explore-then-commit methods by accounting for regret from every intermediate rule.

Core claim

In the game of coding with an unknown adversary utility, the data collector acting as Stackelberg leader can use repeated interactions to learn the trade-off between acceptance and estimation error. The proposed algorithm narrows its search to promising acceptance rules using feedback from each round, and this yields a proof of sublinear cumulative regret while numerical experiments confirm practical effectiveness.

What carries the argument

The refine-around-promising acceptance rules algorithm, which iteratively narrows selection based on observed acceptance outcomes and estimation quality to control total loss over the full trajectory.

If this is right

Cumulative regret over T rounds stays o(T), so average per-round loss approaches zero.
Every acceptance rule tried during learning contributes to the total bound, not just the final one.
Numerical experiments demonstrate that the regret remains controlled across varied adversary trade-offs.
The collector can adapt rules dynamically using only the binary acceptance feedback from each interaction.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

Similar refinement of search could extend to other repeated leader-follower games where one party observes only partial outcomes like acceptance.
Systems running indefinitely might prioritize cumulative metrics to keep overall estimate quality high even while learning.
The approach could be tested for robustness by allowing the adversary's utility to change slowly over time rather than staying fixed.

Load-bearing premise

The adversary maintains one fixed but unknown utility function that trades off getting submissions accepted against degrading the collector's final estimate.

What would settle it

Simulating the algorithm over thousands of rounds with a fixed adversary utility and measuring whether cumulative regret grows linearly with the number of rounds instead of sublinearly.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.09754 by Hanzaleh Akbari Nodehi, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Parsa Moradi.

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Induced DC utility as a function of the acceptance threshold [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Cumulative regret over T = 100000 rounds. The proposed algorithm achieves lower trajectory regret than the explore-then-commit baseline. We consider the two-node setting from Section II. The honest noise is nh ∼ Unif[−∆, ∆] with ∆ = 1, and the threshold space is ΛDC = [2, 30]. For each fixed η, the adversary chooses the induced acceptance probability as α(η) ∈ arg max0<α≤1 QAD (cη(α), α). The corresponding… view at source ↗

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Classical coding-theoretic guarantees often rely on trust assumptions, such as requiring sufficiently many honest nodes compared with adversarial ones. These assumptions are difficult to enforce in open decentralized systems where participants are not centrally certified. At the same time, such environments often contain incentive mechanisms: participants may be rewarded only when their submitted data are accepted and the system remains functional. This changes the role of an adversary. Rather than acting as a pure saboteur, a strategic adversary may submit data that are consistent enough to be accepted while still degrading the quality of the final estimate. The game-of-coding framework models this strategic interaction between a data collector (DC) and an adversary. Existing works on the game of coding mostly consider the complete-information case, where the DC knows how the adversary trades off acceptance and estimation error. In this paper, we study an incomplete-information version of the game of coding in which the DC, acting as a Stackelberg leader, does not know the adversary's utility trade-off and must learn through repeated interaction. Prior work on the unknown-adversary setting considered an explore-then-commit objective, where only the final selected acceptance rule is evaluated. In contrast, we study the full learning trajectory: every acceptance rule used during the algorithm is executed and contributes to performance. We propose an algorithm that refines its search around promising acceptance rules, prove that it achieves sublinear cumulative regret, and evaluate its performance through numerical experiments.

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The paper moves the game-of-coding to cumulative regret over the full learning trajectory in the incomplete-information case, using a refinement algorithm with a sublinear bound.

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The key point is that this paper takes the game-of-coding model and focuses on cumulative regret across the entire learning process instead of just the final acceptance rule after exploration. They propose a refinement algorithm that concentrates on promising rules, show it gets sublinear cumulative regret, and back it with numerical experiments. This fits the incomplete-information case where the data collector learns the adversary's fixed but unknown trade-off between acceptance and estimation error through repeated interactions with observable outcomes. The new element is the full-trajectory objective, which differs from prior explore-then-commit work. The setup is a standard Stackelberg game, and the regret result aligns with online learning under compact action spaces or Lipschitz conditions. The paper does well at motivating the problem for open decentralized systems with incentives, where adversaries act strategically rather than purely disruptively. Soft spots are limited. The abstract does not include the proof details or experiment descriptions, so one would need the full text to check assumption strength and bound tightness. The fixed-utility assumption is load-bearing; deviations there could affect applicability. Nothing indicates circular reasoning or inconsistencies. This paper is for researchers in information theory and algorithmic game theory working on decentralized networks. Readers studying incentive mechanisms in distributed computing would get value from the cumulative regret perspective. It deserves serious peer review. The core claim is plausible and grounded in established techniques, even if the manuscript will likely need expansions on the analysis and experiments.

Referee Report

2 major / 3 minor

Summary. The paper studies an incomplete-information Stackelberg game of coding in which the data collector (leader) does not know the adversary's fixed but unknown utility trade-off between acceptance and estimation error. It proposes a refinement algorithm that iteratively narrows its search over acceptance rules based on observed outcomes, proves that the algorithm attains sublinear cumulative regret over the entire interaction trajectory, and reports numerical experiments comparing the learned rules against baselines.

Significance. If the sublinear-regret claim holds under the stated assumptions, the work meaningfully extends prior complete-information and explore-then-commit analyses of the game of coding to the more realistic cumulative-performance setting. The result supplies a concrete learning procedure with theoretical guarantees for decentralized systems that rely on incentive-compatible acceptance rules, and the numerical experiments provide initial empirical support.

major comments (2)

[§4.2] §4.2, Theorem 1: the sublinear regret bound is stated to hold for any Lipschitz utility, yet the proof sketch invokes a uniform discretization of the acceptance-rule space whose mesh size depends on an unspecified Lipschitz constant; without an explicit bound on that constant or a data-dependent choice of mesh, the claimed O(√T) rate is not guaranteed to be parameter-free.
[§5.1] §5.1, Table 1: the reported cumulative regret for the proposed algorithm is compared only against a fixed-grid baseline and an explore-then-commit oracle; an additional comparison against a standard no-regret bandit algorithm (e.g., EXP3 or UCB on the same discretized space) is needed to isolate the benefit of the refinement heuristic.

minor comments (3)

[Abstract] The abstract claims 'numerical experiments' but does not name the performance metric (cumulative regret, final estimation error, or both) or the range of adversary trade-off parameters; a single sentence clarifying these would improve readability.
[§3] Notation: the symbol r_t for the acceptance rule chosen at round t is introduced in §3 without an accompanying table of symbols; readers must hunt through the text to recall that r_t belongs to a compact subset of [0,1]^d.
[Figure 2] Figure 2 caption: the x-axis label 'rounds' is ambiguous because the plot mixes learning rounds with evaluation rounds; relabeling as 'interaction rounds' would remove confusion.

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We thank the referee for the careful review and the recommendation of minor revision. The comments highlight important aspects of our theoretical analysis and experimental design. We address them point by point below and have made revisions accordingly.

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Referee: [§4.2] §4.2, Theorem 1: the sublinear regret bound is stated to hold for any Lipschitz utility, yet the proof sketch invokes a uniform discretization of the acceptance-rule space whose mesh size depends on an unspecified Lipschitz constant; without an explicit bound on that constant or a data-dependent choice of mesh, the claimed O(√T) rate is not guaranteed to be parameter-free.

Authors: We agree with the observation. The discretization in the proof of Theorem 1 is uniform and its mesh size is chosen proportionally to 1/L to control the approximation error, leading to a regret bound whose leading constant depends on the Lipschitz constant L of the utility. Since L is a fixed property of the (unknown) adversary, the bound is O(sqrt(T)) with a multiplicative factor depending on L, which is still sublinear. We will revise §4.2 to explicitly state this dependence in the theorem and proof sketch, clarifying that the result holds for any fixed Lipschitz utility with the constant scaling accordingly. We do not have a data-dependent mesh in the current version, but the revision will make the assumptions transparent. revision: yes
Referee: [§5.1] §5.1, Table 1: the reported cumulative regret for the proposed algorithm is compared only against a fixed-grid baseline and an explore-then-commit oracle; an additional comparison against a standard no-regret bandit algorithm (e.g., EXP3 or UCB on the same discretized space) is needed to isolate the benefit of the refinement heuristic.

Authors: We appreciate this suggestion, as it helps demonstrate the specific advantage of the refinement approach. We have conducted additional numerical experiments implementing EXP3 and UCB on the discretized acceptance rule space used in our algorithm. The updated Table 1 in §5.1 now includes these baselines, and the results indicate that our method achieves lower cumulative regret compared to these standard algorithms, validating the benefit of the heuristic. The revision is included in the new manuscript version. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper introduces a new refinement algorithm for the incomplete-information game-of-coding setting, proves a sublinear cumulative regret bound for the full learning trajectory (distinct from prior explore-then-commit objectives), and supports the claims with numerical experiments. The derivation relies on standard online learning techniques under the stated Stackelberg assumptions with observable outcomes; no step reduces by construction to a fitted parameter, self-definition, or self-citation chain. The central result is an independent algorithmic contribution with an external proof and empirical validation.

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domain assumption Adversary possesses a fixed but unknown utility function that trades off acceptance probability against estimation error
Defines the incomplete-information setting studied in the paper.

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We propose an algorithm that refines its search around promising acceptance rules, prove that it achieves sublinear cumulative regret... Algorithm 1 Game-of-Coding Zooming Algorithm... Reg_T(π_Z) = O((C_z ℓ̄² ln² T)^{1/(d_z+2)} T^{(d_z+1)/(d_z+2)})
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