Navigating in a Space of Game Views

MP Wellman, K Mayo Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS), 38(31):1–25, 2024. Abstract Game-theoretic modeling entails selecting the particular elements of a complex strategic situation deemed most salient for strategic analysis.…
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Katherine Mayo defends dissertation

On 15 May 2024, Katherine Mayo successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled, "A Strategic Agent-Based Analysis of Economic and Technological Changes in Financial Networks." Thanks to the dissertation committee members: Michael…
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SRG paper wins Best Paper Award at ALA 2024 workshop

The paper titled "A Meta-Game Evaluation Framework for Deep Multiagent Reinforcement Learning," authored by Zun Li, while he was a PhD student with SRG, and Michael Wellman just won the best paper award at the 16th Adaptive and Learning Agents…

A Meta-Game Evaluation Framework for Deep Multiagent Reinforcement Learning

Z Li and MP Wellman 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pages 148-156, August 2024. earlier version won Best Paper Award at 16th Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA) Workshop at AAMAS, May 2024. Abstract Evaluating…

Co-Learning Empirical Games and World Models

MO Smith and MP Wellman 1st Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC), August 2024. Forthcoming. Abstract Game-based decision-making involves reasoning over both world dynamics and strategic interactions among the agents. Typically, empirical…

Fraud Risk Mitigation in Real-Time Payments: A Strategic Agent-Based Analysis

K Mayo, N Grabill, and MP Wellman 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pages 157-165, August 2024. Abstract Whereas standard financial mechanisms for payment may take days to finalize, real-time payments…

Generalized Response Objectives for Strategy Exploration in Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis

Y Wang and MP Wellman 23nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), May 2024. Forthcoming. Abstract In the policy-space response oracle (PSRO) framework, strategy sets defining an empirical game are iteratively…
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Zun Li defends dissertation

  On 17 January 2024, Zun Li successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled, "Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Large Economic and Computer Games." Thanks to the dissertation committee members: Michael Wellman (chair) …

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…

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…