Publications (4)
Games with Payments between Learning Agents
Yoav Kolumbus, Joe Halpern, Ãva Tardos
In repeated games, such as auctions, players rely on autonomous learning agents to choose their actions. We study settings in which players have their agents make monetary transfer…
Fair Interest Rates Are Impossible for Lending Pools: Results from Options Pricing
Joe Halpern, Rafael Pass, Aditya Saraf
Cryptocurrency lending pools are services that allow lenders to pool together assets in one cryptocurrency and loan it out to borrowers who provide collateral worth more (than the…
Towards Guaranteed Safe AI: A Framework for Ensuring Robust and Reliable AI Systems
David "davidad" Dalrymple, Joar Skalse, Yoshua Bengio +14
Ensuring that AI systems reliably and robustly avoid harmful or dangerous behaviours is a crucial challenge, especially for AI systems with a high degree of autonomy and general in…
Chunking Tasks for Present-Biased Agents
Joe Halpern, Aditya Saraf
Everyone puts things off sometimes. How can we combat this tendency to procrastinate? A well-known technique used by instructors is to break up a large project into more manageable…