This is just a brief content for the chapter 10 of the Kleinberg 's book.
Link: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/networks-book-ch10.pdf
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The document provides an overview of decision tree learning algorithms:
- Decision trees are a supervised learning method that can represent discrete functions and efficiently process large datasets.
- Basic algorithms like ID3 use a top-down greedy search to build decision trees by selecting attributes that best split the training data at each node.
- The quality of a split is typically measured by metrics like information gain, with the goal of creating pure, homogeneous child nodes.
- Fully grown trees may overfit, so algorithms incorporate a bias toward smaller, simpler trees with informative splits near the root.
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2) Design tips include representing data accurately, using simple styles, employing color cautiously, choosing clear fonts, and using annotations to tell a story.
3) Online visualization tools like Infogram are also presented. The resource aims to demonstrate the value of data visualization for research communication and uptake.
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The document provides an overview of decision tree learning algorithms:
- Decision trees are a supervised learning method that can represent discrete functions and efficiently process large datasets.
- Basic algorithms like ID3 use a top-down greedy search to build decision trees by selecting attributes that best split the training data at each node.
- The quality of a split is typically measured by metrics like information gain, with the goal of creating pure, homogeneous child nodes.
- Fully grown trees may overfit, so algorithms incorporate a bias toward smaller, simpler trees with informative splits near the root.
1) The document discusses data visualization and provides tips for effective data visualization design. It introduces different types of charts like column charts, pie charts, bubble charts and their pros and cons.
2) Design tips include representing data accurately, using simple styles, employing color cautiously, choosing clear fonts, and using annotations to tell a story.
3) Online visualization tools like Infogram are also presented. The resource aims to demonstrate the value of data visualization for research communication and uptake.
Data preprocessing involves cleaning data by handling missing values, noise, and inconsistencies. It also includes integrating and transforming data through normalization, aggregation, and dimensionality reduction. The goals are to improve data quality and reduce data volume for mining while maintaining the essential information. Techniques like binning, clustering, regression and histograms are used to discretize and reduce numerical attributes.
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Deep learning (DL) is still one of the fastest developing areas in machine learning. As models increase their complexity and data sets grow in size, your model training can last hours or even days. In this session we will explore some of the trends in Deep Neural Networks to accelerate training using parallelize/distribute deep learning.
We will also present how to apply some of these strategies using Cloudera Data Science Workbenck and some popular (DL) open source frameworks like Uber Horovod, Tensorflow and Keras.
Speakers
Rafael Arana, Senior Solutions Architect
Cloudera
Zuling Kang, Senior Solutions Architect
Cloudera Inc.
This presentation contains concepts of different image restoration and reconstruction techniques used nowadays in the field of digital image processing. Slides are prepared from Gonzalez book and Pratt book.
Unit 3 discusses image segmentation techniques. Similarity based techniques group similar image components, like pixels or frames, for compact representation. Common applications include medical imaging, satellite images, and surveillance. Methods include thresholding and k-means clustering. Segmentation of grayscale images is based on discontinuities in pixel values, detecting edges, or similarities using thresholding, region growing, and splitting/merging. Region growing starts with seed pixels and groups neighboring pixels with similar properties. Region splitting starts with the full image and divides non-homogeneous regions, while region merging combines small similar regions.
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Convolutional neural network from VGG to DenseNetSungminYou
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Vanishing gradients occur when error gradients become very small during backpropagation, hindering convergence. This can happen when activation functions like sigmoid and tanh are used, as their derivatives are between 0 and 0.25. It affects earlier layers more due to more multiplicative terms. Using ReLU activations helps as their derivative is 1 for positive values. Initializing weights properly also helps prevent vanishing gradients. Exploding gradients occur when error gradients become very large, disrupting learning. It can be addressed through lower learning rates, gradient clipping, and gradient scaling.
This document discusses image thresholding techniques for image segmentation. It describes thresholding as the basic first step for segmentation that partitions an image into foreground and background pixels based on intensity value. Simple thresholding uses a single cutoff value but can fail for complex histograms. Adaptive thresholding divides an image into sub-images and thresholds each individually to handle varying intensities better than simple thresholding. The document provides examples and algorithms to illustrate thresholding and its limitations and adaptations.
Support vector machines are a type of supervised machine learning algorithm used for classification and regression analysis. They work by mapping data to high-dimensional feature spaces to find optimal linear separations between classes. Key advantages are effectiveness in high dimensions, memory efficiency using support vectors, and versatility through kernel functions. Hyperparameters like kernel type, gamma, and C must be tuned for best performance. Common kernels include linear, polynomial, and radial basis function kernels.
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This document provides an overview of image compression. It discusses what image compression is, why it is needed, common terminology used, entropy, compression system models, and algorithms for image compression including lossless and lossy techniques. Lossless algorithms compress data without any loss of information while lossy algorithms reduce file size by losing some information and quality. Common lossless techniques mentioned are run length encoding and Huffman coding while lossy methods aim to form a close perceptual approximation of the original image.
The document summarizes a lecture on texture mapping in computer graphics. It discusses topics like texture mapping fundamentals, texture coordinates, texture filtering including mipmapping and anisotropic filtering, wrap modes, cube maps, and texture formats. It also provides examples of texture mapping in games and an overview of the texture sampling process in the graphics pipeline.
The document discusses various model-based clustering techniques for handling high-dimensional data, including expectation-maximization, conceptual clustering using COBWEB, self-organizing maps, subspace clustering with CLIQUE and PROCLUS, and frequent pattern-based clustering. It provides details on the methodology and assumptions of each technique.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2021/09/an-introduction-to-data-augmentation-techniques-in-ml-frameworks-a-presentation-from-amd/
Rajy Rawther, PMTS Software Architect at AMD, presents the “Introduction to Data Augmentation Techniques in ML Frameworks” tutorial at the May 2021 Embedded Vision Summit.
Data augmentation is a set of techniques that expand the diversity of data available for training machine learning models by generating new data from existing data. This talk introduces different types of data augmentation techniques as well as their uses in various training scenarios.
Rawther explores some built-in augmentation methods in popular ML frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow. She also discusses some tips and tricks that are commonly used to randomly select parameters to avoid having model overfit to a particular dataset.
This document discusses logistic regression for classification problems. Logistic regression models the probability of an output belonging to a particular class using a logistic function. The model parameters are estimated by minimizing a cost function using gradient descent or other advanced optimization algorithms. Logistic regression can be extended to multi-class classification problems using a one-vs-all approach that trains a separate binary classifier for each class.
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Supervised learning: discover patterns in the data that relate data attributes with a target (class) attribute.
These patterns are then utilized to predict the values of the target attribute in future data instances.
Unsupervised learning: The data have no target attribute.
We want to explore the data to find some intrinsic structures in them.
Flower Classification Using Neural Network Based Image ProcessingIOSR Journals
Abstract: In this paper, it is proposed to have a method for classification of flowers using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) classifier. The proposed method is based on textural features such as Gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and discrete wavelet transform (DWT). A flower image is segmented using a threshold based method. The data set has different flower images with similar appearance .The database of flower images is a mixture of images taken from World Wide Web and the images taken by us. The ANN has been trained by 50 samples to classify 5 classes of flowers and achieved classification accuracy more than 85% using GLCM features only. Keywords: Artificial Neural Network, DWT, GLCM, Segmentation.
On the Expressiveness of Attribute-based CommunicationYehia ABD ALRahman
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The PageRank algorithm was developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1996 to rank the importance of web pages. It measures a page's importance based on the number and quality of links to it, viewing the web as a directed graph. The algorithm models a random web surfer and calculates the probability of ending up on each page. It has since been refined by Google but remains an important factor in search engine results. Variations of PageRank can also be applied to other networks like ranking NFL teams based on game outcomes.
Deep learning (DL) is still one of the fastest developing areas in machine learning. As models increase their complexity and data sets grow in size, your model training can last hours or even days. In this session we will explore some of the trends in Deep Neural Networks to accelerate training using parallelize/distribute deep learning.
We will also present how to apply some of these strategies using Cloudera Data Science Workbenck and some popular (DL) open source frameworks like Uber Horovod, Tensorflow and Keras.
Speakers
Rafael Arana, Senior Solutions Architect
Cloudera
Zuling Kang, Senior Solutions Architect
Cloudera Inc.
This presentation contains concepts of different image restoration and reconstruction techniques used nowadays in the field of digital image processing. Slides are prepared from Gonzalez book and Pratt book.
Unit 3 discusses image segmentation techniques. Similarity based techniques group similar image components, like pixels or frames, for compact representation. Common applications include medical imaging, satellite images, and surveillance. Methods include thresholding and k-means clustering. Segmentation of grayscale images is based on discontinuities in pixel values, detecting edges, or similarities using thresholding, region growing, and splitting/merging. Region growing starts with seed pixels and groups neighboring pixels with similar properties. Region splitting starts with the full image and divides non-homogeneous regions, while region merging combines small similar regions.
Transfer Learning -- The Next Frontier for Machine LearningSebastian Ruder
Sebastian Ruder gave a presentation on transfer learning in machine learning. He began by defining transfer learning as applying knowledge gained from solving one problem to a different but related problem. Transfer learning is now important because machine learning models have matured and are being widely deployed, but often lack labeled data for new tasks or domains. Ruder discussed examples of transfer learning in computer vision and natural language processing. He described his research focus on finding better ways to transfer knowledge between domains, tasks, and languages in large-scale, real-world applications.
The document discusses regularization techniques for machine learning models called Ridge and Lasso regression. Ridge regression, also known as L2 regularization, introduces a small bias to models to minimize testing error by reducing variance. It works by adding penalties for large weights proportional to the square of the weight. Lasso regression, or L1 regularization, is similar but can exclude useless variables from models by setting some weights to zero. Both techniques aim to reduce overfitting and improve generalization to unlabeled data.
Convolutional neural network from VGG to DenseNetSungminYou
This document summarizes recent developments in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image recognition, including residual networks (ResNets) and densely connected convolutional networks (DenseNets). It reviews CNN structure and components like convolution, pooling, and ReLU. ResNets address degradation problems in deep networks by introducing identity-based skip connections. DenseNets connect each layer to every other layer to encourage feature reuse, addressing vanishing gradients. The document outlines the structures of ResNets and DenseNets and their advantages over traditional CNNs.
Vanishing gradients occur when error gradients become very small during backpropagation, hindering convergence. This can happen when activation functions like sigmoid and tanh are used, as their derivatives are between 0 and 0.25. It affects earlier layers more due to more multiplicative terms. Using ReLU activations helps as their derivative is 1 for positive values. Initializing weights properly also helps prevent vanishing gradients. Exploding gradients occur when error gradients become very large, disrupting learning. It can be addressed through lower learning rates, gradient clipping, and gradient scaling.
This document discusses image thresholding techniques for image segmentation. It describes thresholding as the basic first step for segmentation that partitions an image into foreground and background pixels based on intensity value. Simple thresholding uses a single cutoff value but can fail for complex histograms. Adaptive thresholding divides an image into sub-images and thresholds each individually to handle varying intensities better than simple thresholding. The document provides examples and algorithms to illustrate thresholding and its limitations and adaptations.
Support vector machines are a type of supervised machine learning algorithm used for classification and regression analysis. They work by mapping data to high-dimensional feature spaces to find optimal linear separations between classes. Key advantages are effectiveness in high dimensions, memory efficiency using support vectors, and versatility through kernel functions. Hyperparameters like kernel type, gamma, and C must be tuned for best performance. Common kernels include linear, polynomial, and radial basis function kernels.
Line drawing algorithm and antialiasing techniquesAnkit Garg
The document discusses computer graphics and line drawing algorithms. Module 1 covers introduction to graphics hardware, display devices, and graphics software. Module 2 discusses output primitives like lines, circles, ellipses, and clipping algorithms like Cohen-Sutherland and Sutherland-Hodgeman. It then explains the Digital Differential Algorithm (DDA) and Bresenham's line drawing algorithms for scan converting lines. DDA calculates increments in the x or y direction based on the slope. Bresenham's uses only integer calculations. Both algorithms are demonstrated with examples. The document also discusses anti-aliasing techniques like supersampling and area sampling to reduce jagged edges.
This document provides an overview of image compression. It discusses what image compression is, why it is needed, common terminology used, entropy, compression system models, and algorithms for image compression including lossless and lossy techniques. Lossless algorithms compress data without any loss of information while lossy algorithms reduce file size by losing some information and quality. Common lossless techniques mentioned are run length encoding and Huffman coding while lossy methods aim to form a close perceptual approximation of the original image.
The document summarizes a lecture on texture mapping in computer graphics. It discusses topics like texture mapping fundamentals, texture coordinates, texture filtering including mipmapping and anisotropic filtering, wrap modes, cube maps, and texture formats. It also provides examples of texture mapping in games and an overview of the texture sampling process in the graphics pipeline.
The document discusses various model-based clustering techniques for handling high-dimensional data, including expectation-maximization, conceptual clustering using COBWEB, self-organizing maps, subspace clustering with CLIQUE and PROCLUS, and frequent pattern-based clustering. It provides details on the methodology and assumptions of each technique.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2021/09/an-introduction-to-data-augmentation-techniques-in-ml-frameworks-a-presentation-from-amd/
Rajy Rawther, PMTS Software Architect at AMD, presents the “Introduction to Data Augmentation Techniques in ML Frameworks” tutorial at the May 2021 Embedded Vision Summit.
Data augmentation is a set of techniques that expand the diversity of data available for training machine learning models by generating new data from existing data. This talk introduces different types of data augmentation techniques as well as their uses in various training scenarios.
Rawther explores some built-in augmentation methods in popular ML frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow. She also discusses some tips and tricks that are commonly used to randomly select parameters to avoid having model overfit to a particular dataset.
This document discusses logistic regression for classification problems. Logistic regression models the probability of an output belonging to a particular class using a logistic function. The model parameters are estimated by minimizing a cost function using gradient descent or other advanced optimization algorithms. Logistic regression can be extended to multi-class classification problems using a one-vs-all approach that trains a separate binary classifier for each class.
This document discusses ensemble modeling techniques. It begins with an introduction to ensemble models and their advantages over single models in reducing biases, variability, and inaccuracies. It then explains how ensemble models work by combining the predictions from multiple machine learning models. Common ensemble methods like bagging and boosting are described, along with the mathematics of reducing bias, variance, and noise. Bagging is explained in more detail, including the bagging algorithm and an example of bagging ensembles using R. The document concludes by outlining topics to cover in subsequent sections, such as boosting, comparing bagging and boosting, and gradient boosting machines.
Supervised learning: discover patterns in the data that relate data attributes with a target (class) attribute.
These patterns are then utilized to predict the values of the target attribute in future data instances.
Unsupervised learning: The data have no target attribute.
We want to explore the data to find some intrinsic structures in them.
Flower Classification Using Neural Network Based Image ProcessingIOSR Journals
Abstract: In this paper, it is proposed to have a method for classification of flowers using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) classifier. The proposed method is based on textural features such as Gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and discrete wavelet transform (DWT). A flower image is segmented using a threshold based method. The data set has different flower images with similar appearance .The database of flower images is a mixture of images taken from World Wide Web and the images taken by us. The ANN has been trained by 50 samples to classify 5 classes of flowers and achieved classification accuracy more than 85% using GLCM features only. Keywords: Artificial Neural Network, DWT, GLCM, Segmentation.
On the Expressiveness of Attribute-based CommunicationYehia ABD ALRahman
This document presents AbC, a process calculus for modeling collective adaptive systems (CAS). AbC uses attribute-based communication (AbC) as its core primitive, allowing components to interact based on attribute matching rather than explicit messaging. The document outlines AbC's syntax and semantics and provides an example of modeling ant colony behavior. It also shows how AbC can encode other communication paradigms like message passing, group communication, and publish-subscribe. Ongoing work with AbC includes implementation, quantitative extensions, and studying behavioral equivalences.
The PageRank algorithm was developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1996 to rank the importance of web pages. It measures a page's importance based on the number and quality of links to it, viewing the web as a directed graph. The algorithm models a random web surfer and calculates the probability of ending up on each page. It has since been refined by Google but remains an important factor in search engine results. Variations of PageRank can also be applied to other networks like ranking NFL teams based on game outcomes.
El documento compara a Lady Gaga y Katy Perry, incluyendo su edad, lugar de nacimiento, antecedentes personales como que Lady Gaga trabajó como stripper y a Katy Perry no la dejaban escuchar música pop, y sus logros profesionales como ventas de discos y sencillos.
Brand U is program that enables participants to develop their confidence, improve their presentation skills and build their own personal brand, that will empowers them to achieve their dreams.
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Facebook has made several changes to respond to declining user satisfaction and growth, including a visual re-design focused on mobile, improved tools for discovery through hashtags and search, their Facebook Home app, and better analytics and advertising tools for brands. The changes aim to recentre Facebook around personalized discovery and forming deeper connections between users, brands and their communities.
This document discusses criteria for evaluating digital libraries. It identifies six key criteria: content, technology, interface, process/service, user, and context. Content criteria examine how digital collections are selected, organized and presented. Technology criteria assess how hardware and software support library functions. Interface criteria consider what users can interact with and how interaction is supported. Process/service criteria examine the services provided and how tasks like searching are supported. User criteria look at how DL use impacts users. Context criteria assess how well the DL fits with its institutional and environmental context. Usability and usefulness are also important factors to consider in digital library evaluation.
This document provides instructions on how to control the speed and direction of a DC motor using a Raspberry Pi and L293D motor controller chip. It explains that pulse-width modulation (PWM) is used to control motor speed by varying the length of output pulses. Software is also provided to write to PWM configuration files to set the motor direction using two GPIO pins connected to the L293D chip. Running the Python program allows entering commands to spin the motor forward or backward at speeds from 0-9.
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Chapter 7 Product Variety and Quality under Monopoly.docxrobert345678
Chapter 7: Product Variety and Quality under Monopoly
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Chapter 7: Product Variety and Quality under Monopoly
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IntroductionMost firms sell more than one productProducts are differentiated in different wayshorizontallygoods of similar quality targeted at consumers of different typeshow is variety determined?is there too much varietyverticallyconsumers agree on qualitydiffer on willingness to pay for qualityhow is quality of goods being offered determined?
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Horizontal product differentiationSuppose that consumers differ in their tastesfirm has to decide how best to serve different types of consumeroffer products with different characteristics but similar qualitiesThis is horizontal product differentiationfirm designs products that appeal to different types of consumerproducts are of (roughly) similar qualityQuestions:how many products?of what type?how do we model this problem?
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A spatial approach to product varietyThe spatial model (Hotelling) is useful to considerpricingdesignvarietyHas a much richer application as a model of product differentiation“location” can be thought of inspace (geography)time (departure times of planes, buses, trains)product characteristics (design and variety)consumers prefer products that are “close” to their preferred types in space, or time or characteristics
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An geographic example of product variety
McDonald’s
Burger King
Wendy’s
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A Spatial approach to product variety 2Assume N consumers living equally spaced along Main Street – 1 mile long.Monopolist must decide how best to supply these consumersConsumers buy exactly one unit provided that price plus transport costs is less than V.Consumers incur there-and-back transport costs of t per mileThe monopolist operates one shopreasonable to expect that this is located at the center of Main Street
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The spatial model
z = 0
z = 1
Shop 1
t
x1
Price
Price
All consumers within
distance x1 to the left
and right of the shop
will by the product
1/2
V
V
p1
t
x1
p1 + tx
p1 + t.x
p1 + tx1 = V, so x1 = (V – p1)/t
What determines
x1?
Suppose that the monopolist
sets a price of p1
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The spatial model 2
z = 0
z = 1
Shop 1
x1
Price
Price
1/2
V
V
p1
x1
p1 + t.x
p1 + t.x
Suppose the firm
reduces the price
to p2?
p2
x2
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The document provides instructions for students appearing for CBSE Board Examinations 2011-2012. It mentions that the code number on the question paper should be written on the answer booklet. It also notes that the paper contains 8 printed pages and students have 15 minutes to read the paper before writing answers. The paper then provides instructions and questions for the Economics exam, including short answer questions worth 1-4 marks and long answer questions worth 6 marks.
This document constructs economic models to analyze the market for rental apartments. It begins by introducing concepts of economic modeling like demand, supply, and equilibrium. It then builds a model of the competitive market for close apartments, where equilibrium rental price clears the market. The model shows how equilibrium price and quantity traded would change if demand or supply shifts. It also analyzes monopoly, discrimination, and rent control policies, finding competitive and discriminatory outcomes are Pareto efficient while monopoly and rent control are not. The document raises questions about how apartment supply may evolve over time under different market structures.
This document provides an overview of partial equilibrium analysis versus general equilibrium analysis in economics. It then summarizes the key concepts of general equilibrium through a two person, two good exchange model. Specifically:
- Partial equilibrium looks at individual markets in isolation, while general equilibrium analyzes how demand and supply interact across multiple interconnected markets.
- A two person, two good exchange model is presented using an Edgeworth box to depict preferences and endowments. Pareto efficient allocations and the contract curve are defined.
- Market equilibrium is described as the prices at which supply equals demand in both markets simultaneously, with agents maximizing utility subject to their budgets at those prices. Walras' law and the idea of relative
The document discusses third-degree price discrimination, where a firm can segment consumers based on observable characteristics and charge different prices to different groups. Under third-degree price discrimination, optimal profits are achieved by separating markets and setting different prices (pa ≠ pb) in each. However, whether using single or multiple prices, monopoly pricing depends on demand characteristics like price elasticity. The firm finds the profit-maximizing quantities (qa* and qb*) and corresponding prices (pa* and pb*) by setting marginal revenue equal to marginal cost in each market. The market with less elastic demand will face a higher price and larger markup over cost.
The document discusses algorithms for computing market equilibria in economic models. It introduces Fisher's model and the Arrow-Debreu model of markets. It describes how competitive equilibria and Pareto efficiency arise in these models under certain assumptions. The document then presents an algorithm based on a primal-dual approach that computes market clearing prices for Fisher's linear model in polynomial time by incrementally raising prices until surplus is eliminated.
MBA 681 Economics for Strategic DecisionsPrepared by Yun Wan.docxalfredacavx97
MBA 681 Economics for Strategic Decisions
Prepared by Yun Wang
1. How does firm maximize profit.
2. Poduction decision in the perfect competitive market.
3. Production decision in monopolistic competitive market.
4. Production decision in oligopoly.
5. Production decision in monoply.
6. Two special models in oligopoly market.
1. How a Firm Maximizes Profit:
All firms try to maximize profits based on the following equation:
Profit = Total Revenue − Total Cost
The rules we have just developed for profit maximization are:
1. The profit-maximizing level of output is where the difference between total revenue and total
cost is greatest, and
2. The profit-maximizing level of output is also where MR = MC.
Notice: All of these rules do not require the assumption of market type; they are true for all
firms with different market structures (perfect competition, monopolistic competition,
oligopoly, monopoly)!
The Four Market Structures:Structures
Market Structure
Characteristic Perfect Competition
Monopolistic
Competition Oligopoly Monopoly
Type of product Identical Differentiated Identical or differentiated Unique
Ease of entry High High Low Entry blocked
Examples of
industries
Growing wheat
Poultry farming
Clothing stores
Restaurants
Manufacturing computers
Manufacturing automobiles
First-class mail delivery
Providing tap water
2. Profit Determination in Perfect Competitive Market:
A firm maximizes profit at
the level of output at which
marginal revenue equals
marginal cost.
The difference between
price and average total cost
equals profit per unit of
output.
Total profit equals profit per
unit of output, times the
amount of output: the area
of the green rectangle on the
graph.
In the graph on the left, price
never exceeds average cost,
so the firm could not possibly
make a profit.
The best this firm can do is to
break even, obtaining no
profit but incurring no loss.
The MC = MR rule leads us to
this optimal level of
production.
The situation is even worse
for this firm; not only can it
not make a profit, price is
always lower than average
total cost, so it must make
a loss.
It makes the smallest loss
possible by again following
the MC = MR rule.
No other level of output
allows the firm’s loss to be
so small.
Identifying Whether a Firm Can Make a Profit
Once we have determined the quantity where MC = MR, we can immediately know
whether the firm is making a profit, breaking even, or making a loss. At that quantity,
• If P > ATC, the firm is making a profit
• If P = ATC, the firm is breaking even
• If P < ATC, the firm is making a loss
Even better: these statements hold true at every level of output.
However, if the price is too low, i.e. below the minimum point of
AVC, the firm will produce nothing at all.
The quantity supplied is zero below this point.
3. Profit Determination in Monopolistic Competitive Market:
(1 of 3)
In the short run, a monopol.
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A Visual Guide to 1 Samuel | A Tale of Two HeartsSteve Thomason
These slides walk through the story of 1 Samuel. Samuel is the last judge of Israel. The people reject God and want a king. Saul is anointed as the first king, but he is not a good king. David, the shepherd boy is anointed and Saul is envious of him. David shows honor while Saul continues to self destruct.
2. Abstract
• Many practical problems can be seen under
network-structured view.
• For instance. Issue of traffic, etc.
• Market is a prime example of network-
structured interaction between many
agents.
• Matching markets.
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3. Matching markets
- Basic principles.
1. People may have different preferences for
different kinds of goods.
2. Prices can decentralize the allocation of goods
to people.
3. Prices can lead to allocations that are socially
optimal.
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4. The 1st scenario. Room Assigning
- Assigning rooms to student.
- Room is designed for a single student.
- Students may have different preferences over
rooms.
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7. Bipartite graph
- Nodes are divided into
two categories.
- Edges connect a node in
one category to a node
in the other category.
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8. Perfect matchings
• A choice of edges in the
bipartite graph so that
each node is the endpoint
of exactly one of the
chosen edges.
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9. Constricted sets
• A set of nodes that their
edges to the other side of
the bipartite graph
“constrict” the formation
of a perfect matching.
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10. The Matching theorem
Matching theorem. If a bipartite graph
(with equal numbers of nodes on the left
and right) has no perfect matching, then it
must contain a constricted set.
Proof here
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11. The 1bis scenario. Valuations and Optimal Assignment
More than binary choice “accept-or-not”.
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13. Valuations
• A collection of individuals evaluating a
collection of objects.
Quality of an Sum of each
assignment of
objects to individuals
= individual’s
valuations.
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14. Optimal assignment
• An assignment that maximizes the total
happiness of everyone for what they get.
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15. The 2nd scenario. Market-clearing prices
• More standard picture of a market.
• Decisions based on prices and own valuations.
• Buyers and sellers.
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17. Prices and payoffs
• Suppose that each seller i put his house up
for a price pi >= 0.
• The buyer’s payoff is her valuation for this
house minus the amount of money she had
to pay: vij – pi.
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18. Prices and payoffs
Payoffs of each buyer on each house:
a b c
X 7 2 2
Y 3 5 6
Z 2 3 2
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19. Preferred sellers
• Seller or sellers that maximize the payoff for
buyer j the preferred sellers.
a b c
X 7 2 2
Y 3 5 6
Z 2 3 2
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20. Preferred-seller graph
• A graph containing edges between buyers
and their preferred sellers.
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21. Market-clearing prices
• A set of prices is call market-clearing if they
cause each house to get bought by a
different buyer.
Or
• A set of prices is market-clearing if the
resulting preferred-seller graph has a perfect
matching.
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22. Market-clearing prices
• Existence of market-clearing prices. For
any set of buyer valuations, there exists a
set of market-clearing prices.
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23. Market-clearing prices
• Optimality of market-clearing prices. For
any set of market-clearing prices, a perfect
matching in the resulting preferred-seller
graph has the maximum total valuation of
any assignment of sellers to buyers.
Total Payoff of M = Total Valuation of M − Sum of all prices.
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24. Constructing a set of market-clearing prices
• A general round of the auction looks like
what we’ve just described.
1. At the start of each round, there is a
current set of prices, with the smallest one
equal to 0.
2. We construct the preferred-seller graph
and check whether there is a perfect
matching.
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25. Constructing a set of market-clearing prices
3. If there is, we’re done: the current prices
are market-clearing.
4. If not, we find a constricted set of buyers S
and their neighbours N(S).
5. Each seller in N(S) (simultaneously) raises
his price by one unit.
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26. Constructing a set of market-clearing prices
6. If necessary, we reduce the prices — the
same amount is subtracted from each price
so that the smallest price becomes zero.
7. We now begin the next round of the
auction, using these new prices.
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27. Constructing a set of market-clearing prices
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28. Constructing a set of market-clearing prices
1. At the start of each round, there is a current set of prices, with the
smallest one equal to 0.
2. We construct the preferred-seller graph and check whether there
is a perfect matching.
3. If there is, we’re done: the current prices are market-clearing.
4. If not, we find a constricted set of buyers S and their neighbours
N(S).
5. Each seller in N(S) (simultaneously) raises his price by one unit.
6. If necessary, we reduce the prices — the same amount is
subtracted from each price so that the smallest price becomes
zero.
7. We now begin the next round of the auction, using these new
prices.
LOOP FOREVER ?
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29. A proof of the Matching Theorem
The Matching Theorem.
The problem.
• How can we identify a constricted set in a
bipartite graph, knowing only that it contains
no perfect matching.
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30. A proof of the Matching Theorem
The idea.
1. Give a bipartite graph.
2. Consider a maximum matching.
3. Try to enlarge -> FAIL.
4. Identify the constricted set.
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31. Definitions
1. Matching edges. Edges are used in given
matching.
2. Non-matching edges. The other edges.
3. Alternating path. A simple path that
alternates between non-matching and
matching.
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32. Definitions
4. Augmenting path. An alternating path
whose endpoints are unmatched nodes,
then the matching can be enlarged.
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33. Searching for an augmenting path
• Alternating BFS.
• Start any unmatched node on the right.
• Explore the rest of the graph layer by layer, add
new nodes to the next layer if have connections.
• Use non-matching edges to discover new nodes.
• If contains an unmatched node from the left-
hand size of the graph -> an augmenting path ->
enlargeable.
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34. Searching for an augmenting path
Alternating BFS
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36. Augmenting paths and constricted sets
• Claim. Consider any bipartite graph with a
matching, and let W be any un-matched
node on the right-hand size. Then either
there is an augmenting path beginning at W,
or there is a constricted set containing W.
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37. Computing a perfect matching
1. Start with an empty matching.
2. Look for an unmatched node W.
3. Use alternating BFS to search for an
augmenting path beginning at W.
4. If found, use this path to enlarge the
matching. Else, indicate the constricted set.
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38. Computing a maximum matching
• Looking for a maximum matching can matter
where we start our search for an
augmenting path.
• If there is no augmenting path beginning at
any node on the right-hand size, then in fact
the current matching has maximum size.
• Revise the alternating BFS by putting all
unmatched nodes on the right to layer 0.
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39. Computing a maximum matching
- If starting from W, we may fail to
find augmenting path.
- If starting from Y, we can produce
the path Y – B – Z – D.
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Agents and behaviors.Implicit network between buyers and sellers.Number of ways of using networks to model interaction among market participant.Extend to the broad notion of social exchange
First class of model as the focus of the current chapter.-They embody, in a very clean and stylized way, a number of basicprinciples:
Rather than expressing preferences simply as binary choice, each individual to express how much they’d like each object, in numerical form.
Of course, while the optimal assignment maximizes total happiness, it does not necessarily give everyone their favourite item; for example, in Figure 10.3(b), all the students think Room 1 is the best, but it can only go to one of them.
Individuals making decisions based on prices and their own valuations.
If this quantity is maximized in a tie between several sellers, then the buyer can maximize her payoff by choosing any one of them.If her payoff vij − pi is negative for every choice of seller i, then the buyer would prefer not to buy any house: we assume she can obtain a payoff of 0 by simply not transacting.
A harder challenge: understanding why market-clearing prices must always exists.+ Take an arbitrary set of buyer valuation.+ Describe a procedure that arrives at market-clearing prices.
- Initially all sellers set their prices to 0. Buyers react by choosing their preferred seller(s) and we look at the resulting preferred-seller graph. If this graph has a perfect matching we’re done. Else -> constricted set.
Potential of a buyer: maximum payoff she can currently get from any seller.Potential of a seller: current price he’s charging.Potential energy of the auction: sum of the potential.
Claim. In a bipartite graph with a matching, if there is an alternating path whose endpoints are unmatched nodes, then the matching can be enlarged.
Even-numbered layers consists of nodes from the right-hand size. Odd-numbered layers consists of nodes from the left-hand sizse.Odd layers contains the same number of nodes as the subsequent even layer.Not counting node W, we have the same number of nodes in odd and even layers.Each nodes in even layers all of its neighbors in the graph present in some layer.
If the alternating breadth-first search fails from any node on the right-hand side, this is enough to expose a constricted set and hence prove there is no perfect matching. However, it is still possible that an alternating breadth-first search could still succeed from some other node. (In this case, the search from W would fail, but the search from Y would succeed.)