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Tao Lin

Microsoft Research

Redomond, WA 98052

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

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  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

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AI Influence: Mechanisms, Amplifiers, and Consequences

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 17 Nov 2025 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2026
Tianyi Alex Qiu, Zhonghao He, Tao Lin, Moshe Glickman, Rachel Calcott, John Wihbey and Max Kleiman-Weiner
Peking University, University of Cambridge, Microsoft Research, University of College London, Harvard University, Northeastern University and University of Washington
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Explainable Information Design

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 20 Aug 2025 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2026
Yiling Chen, Tao Lin, Wei Tang and Jamie Tucker-Foltz
Harvard University, Microsoft Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Yale University
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Linear information design, Partitional information policy, Price of explainability, Mean-preserving contraction

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From Monopoly to Competition: When Do Optimal Contests Prevail?

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 04 Mar 2024
Xiaotie Deng, Yotam Gafni, Ron Lavi, Tao Lin and Hongyi Ling
Peking University, Weizmann Institute of Science, University of Bath, Microsoft Research and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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contest design, competition among contests, Tullock contest, all-pay auction

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Information Design With Unknown Prior

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 21 Apr 2026
Ce Li and Tao Lin
Boston University and Microsoft Research
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Bayesian persuasion, unknown belief, online learning, robustness