Weighted Garbling

Daehyun Kim and Ichiro Obara

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Abstract: We introduce an information order on experiments based on weighted garbling, a generalization of the standard notion of garbling. In this order, an experiment is more informative than another if the latter is a weighted garbling of the former. We show that this is equivalent to ordinary garbling conditional on a payoff-irrelevant event. We also characterize the order in terms of induced posterior belief distributions, showing that it depends only on their support. Our main results provide two decision-theoretic characterizations of this order. First, in static decision problems, one experiment dominates another if and only if its value of information is at least a fixed fraction of the other's across all problems. Second, in a class of stopping time problems with a hidden Markov process and repeated experimentation, one experiment dominates another if and only if it yields weakly higher expected payoffs for every problem with a regular prior.

Date: 2024-10, Revised 2026-03
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