Abstract

Many problems in game theory involve reasoning between multiple parties with asymmetric access to information. This broad class of problems leads to many research questions about information and mechanism design, with broad-ranging applications from governance and public administration to e-commerce and financial services. In particular, there has been a recent surge of interest in exploring the more generalized sequential versions of these problems, where players interact over multiple time steps in a changing environment. In this talk, I will present a framework of sequential principal-agent problems that is capable of modeling a wide range of information and mechanism design problems. I will discuss our recent algorithmic results on the computation and learning of optimal decision-making in this framework.

Time

2023-12-20  10:30 - 11:30   

Speaker

Jiarui Gan, University of Oxford

Room

Room 308