Incentivizing truthful data sharing is important in modern data marketplaces and sharing consortia to discourage manipulation.
Schemes that reward agents based on the quantity of data submitted can lead to fabricated or low-quality data being submitted.
A new approach based on a Cramér-von Mises statistic-inspired two-sample test has been developed to incentivize agents to submit genuine data and discourage fabrication.
The method establishes truthful reporting as a Nash equilibrium and relaxes key assumptions made by prior work in data sharing problems.