Topic | Instructor | Date | Materials |
Overview part | Vince | Jan 14, 16, 21, 23 | Foundations of cooperative AI
vision paper. Slides: pptx, pdf. Emanuel's project ideas: pptx, pdf. |
AI alignment and social choice | Vince | Jan 23, 28 | Social choice for AI alignment position paper. Slides: pptx, pdf. |
Normal-form games | Vince | Jan 28, Feb 4 | Chapters 3 and 4 of Multiagent Systems:
Algorithmic, Game-Theoretic,
and Logical Foundations (also review Appendices A and B as needed) Slides: ppt, pdf. |
Extensive-form games | Vince | Feb 11-13 | Chapter 5 of Multiagent Systems:
Algorithmic, Game-Theoretic,
and Logical Foundations Slides: ppt, pdf. Optional: Paper on finding optimal strategies to commit to. |
Program and mediated equilibrium | Caspar | Feb 6 | Slides: pdf. HW1. |
Repeated games, stochastic games, learning in games | Vince | Feb 13-Feb 25 | Chapters 6.1, 6.2, 7 of Multiagent Systems:
Algorithmic, Game-Theoretic,
and Logical Foundations. Slides: repeated games: ppt, pdf; learning in games: ppt, pdf. HW2. |
Bayesian games and auctions | Vince | Feb 25-March 20 | SLB 6.3, 11.1.1-11.1.8.
Optional: 11.1.9, 11.1.10. Slides: ppt, pdf. |
Mechanism design | Vince | March 20-27 |
Slides: ppt, pdf. SLB 10.1-10.4. Optional: rest of chapter 10. Article on the Swoopo auction. |
MIDTERM | Vince | March 13 (practice questions covered on March 11) | Practice questions. Whiteboard screenshots from solution videos: q1, q2, q3, q4, q5. |
Combinatorial auctions and variants | Vince | March 25 | Slides: ppt, pdf.
SLB 11.3.1-11.3.4, 11.4.1. Optional: 11.2, 11.3.5, Conitzer chapter on auctions, Lehmann et al. chapter on winner determination, Sandholm chapter on optimal winner determination. |
Automated mechanism design | Vince | March 27-April 1 |
Slides: ppt, pdf. HW3. Optional: Chapter on automated mechanism design, read up to and including 6.6. |
Coalitional/cooperative game theory | Vince | April 1-8 |
Slides: ppt, pdf. SLB Chapter 12. |
Self-locating beliefs | Vince | April 10 | Slides: pptx, pdf. Another resource/perspective on the material of these last two lectures is this tutorial, especially the second half / parts 3 and 4 (slides and link to YouTube videos are at that link). |
Decision theories | Caspar | April 15 | Slides: pdf. |