Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab (FOCAL) at CMU
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Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab @CarnegieMellon. Creating foundations of game theory for advanced AI w/ focus on achieving cooperation. Directed by @conitzer.
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Joined January 2022
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RT @conitzer: short paper by @Yoshua_Bengio and me about what LLMs tell us about our own mental lives (extended from earlier blog post).htt….
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RT @conitzer: (1/n) I noticed that on the IMO where several LLM-based systems just got gold medals, the fifth problem (the last one solved….
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RT @conitzer: The Nash75 talks are on YouTube! Below is my talk "Game Theory for AI Agents" (link also gives all other talks on the side).….
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RT @conitzer: (2/2).Poster Thu 16:30.Observation Interference in Partially Observable Assistance Games (led by Scott Emmons and @C_Oesterhe….
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We study partially observable assistance games (POAGs), a model of the human-AI value alignment problem which allows the human and the AI assistant to have partial observations. Motivated by...
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RT @conitzer: (1/2) Two papers with authors from our @FOCAL_lab being presented at ICML @icmlconf in the next two days:. Oral Wed 16:15 &….
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Variational inequalities (VIs) encompass many fundamental problems in diverse areas ranging from engineering to economics and machine learning. However, their considerable expressivity comes at...
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RT @conitzer: Want to know which game is better without making equilibrium selection assumptions? Caspar Oesterheld (@C_Oesterheld) is abo….
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RT @conitzer: A fantastic group of young researchers at the Cooperative AI Summer School, bodes well for the future of cooperative AI!.
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RT @conitzer: (2/2).From Independence of Clones to Composition Consistency: A Hierarchy of Barriers to Strategic Nomination.W 1:30pm sessio….
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We study two axioms for social choice functions that capture the impact of similar candidates: independence of clones (IoC) and composition consistency (CC). We clarify the relationship between...
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RT @conitzer: (1/2) @AcmSIGecom EC'25 has started! Two papers with coauthors from our @FOCAL_lab:. Learning and Computation of Phi-Equilib….
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$Φ$-equilibria -- and the associated notion of $Φ$-regret -- are a powerful and flexible framework at the heart of online learning and game theory, whereby enriching the set of deviations...
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RT @conitzer: Looking forward to the 75 years of Nash equilibrium conference! I'll speak on game theory for AI agents. .
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A symposium at Oxford to celebrate 75 years of Nash equilibrium
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RT @jankulveit: Human-aligned AI Summer School @humanalignedai has an updated list of speakers @FazlBarez (Oxford) @lrhammond (@coop_ai) @….
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RT @coop_ai: Join the first seminar in our new 'Updates in Cooperative AI' series exploring our recent 'Multi-Agent Risks' report, live Jun….
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RT @conitzer: Looking forward to participating in the cooperative AI panel at AAMAS tonight! @AAMASconf @FOCAL_lab
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RT @conitzer: Our Foundations of Cooperative AI tutorial at AAMAS is about to start (room Richard B)! All the materials are at the link be….
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RT @conitzer: AAMAS 2025 begins! Today is our workshop on Social Choice for AI Ethics and Safety. @AAMASconf .
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Social Choice for AI Ethics and Safety 2025 (SC4AI'25) will take place at AAMAS 2025 in Detroit, Michigan on May 19, 2025. The workshop is organized by Vincent Conitzer, Jobst Heitzig, Wesley...
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RT @conitzer: article on CMU papers at CHI'25 including our work on AI and Moral Decision-Making.(with Vijay Keswani, Walter Sinnott-Armstr….
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CMU teams are investigating how AI systems can improve the way researchers and developers enhance people's understanding and confidence in these systems. Many of those researchers are presenting...
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RT @conitzer: @EmanuelTewolde (and coauthor @C_Oesterheld) receiving the AAAI'25 best poster award from @TobyWalsh, for our paper "Computi….
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RT @conitzer: (3/3) And in the same session, Emanuel Tewolde will present "Computing Game Symmetries and Equilibria That Respect Them.".htt….
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Strategic interactions can be represented more concisely, and analyzed and solved more efficiently, if we are aware of the symmetries within the multiagent system. Symmetries also have conceptual...
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RT @conitzer: (2/3) Then, today at 2:30pm in the game theory session, Emin Berker will present "The Value of Recall in Extensive-Form Games….
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Imperfect-recall games, in which players may forget previously acquired information, have found many practical applications, ranging from game abstractions to team games and testing AI agents. In...
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RT @conitzer: (1/3) Three @FOCAL_lab papers at #AAAI2025! Starting with one from yesterday: Emery Cooper did a wonderful job presenting "Ch….
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In Tennenholtz's program equilibrium, players of a game submit programs to play on their behalf. Each program receives the other programs' source code and outputs an action. This can model...
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