
Strategic Knowledge Transfer
MO Smith, T Anthony, MP Wellman
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 24(233):1−96, August 2023.
Abstract
In the course of playing or solving a game, it is common to face a series of changing other-agent strategies. These strategies…

Yongzhao Wang defends dissertation
On August 14, 2023, Yongzhao Wang successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled, "Multiagent Learning by Iterative Refinement of Game Models."
Thanks to the dissertation committee members:
Michael Wellman (chair)
Mingyan Liu
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Max Smith defends dissertation
On July 26, 2023, Max Smith successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled, "Efficient Game Solving through Transfer Learning."
Thanks to the dissertation committee members:
Michael Wellman (chair)
Satinder Singh Baveja
Honglak…

Learning to play against any mixture of opponents
MO Smith, T Anthony, MP Wellman
Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence (Sec. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence), Volume 6, July 2023.
Abstract
Intuitively, experience playing against one mixture of opponents in a given domain should…

Christine Konicki defends dissertation proposal
On October 17, 2022, Christine Konicki presented and successfully defended her dissertation proposal titled "A Tree-Exploiting Approach to Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis for Extensive-Form Games."
The dissertation committee comprises:
…

Machine Learning, Algorithmic Trading, and Manipulation
Columbia Blue Sky Blog post based on the report by Megan Shearer, Gabriel Rauterberg, and Michael Wellman.

Megan Shearer defends dissertation
On June 27, 2022, Megan Shearer successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled, "Modeling Trading Strategies in Financial Markets with Data, Simulation, and Deep Reinforcement Learning."
Congratulations, Dr. Shearer! We wish you a bright…

Yongzhao Wang defends dissertation proposal
On 10 May 2022, Yongzhao Wang presented and successfully defended his dissertation proposal titled "Multi-agent Learning by Iterative Refinement of Game Models."
The dissertation committee comprises:
Michael Wellman [chair]
Tilman…

Building Action Sets in a Deep Reinforcement Learner
Y Wang, A Sinha, S CH-Wang, and MP Wellman
20th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA-21), pages 484–489, December 2021.
Abstract
In many policy-learning applications, the agent may execute a set of actions…

Megan Shearer defends thesis proposal
On June 1 2021, Megan Shearer presented and successfully defended her dissertation proposal titled "Modeling Trading Strategies in Financial Markets with Data, Simulation, and Deep Reinforcement Learning".
The dissertation committee comprises:
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