6 papers
Ask, Relax, or Act? Evaluating Actionable Indeterminacy in LLM Preference Reasoning
Ang Li, Yue Lin, Feifei Kou +6
An LLM agent can recognize uncertainty yet still choose the wrong next step: asking when action is already justified, or seeking clarification when the constraints must change. We…
The Reciprocity Gradient
Yue Lin, Pascal Poupart, Shuhui Zhu +5
Communication is fundamental to sustaining reciprocity and cooperation in strategic interactions. We identify and formulate the influence attribution problem as the central optimiz…
Talk, Judge, Cooperate: Gossip-Driven Indirect Reciprocity in Self-Interested LLM Agents
Shuhui Zhu, Yue Lin, Shriya Kaistha +5
Indirect reciprocity, which means helping those who have helped others, is difficult to sustain among decentralized, self-interested LLM agents without reliable reputation systems.…
Policy-Conditioned Policies for Multi-Agent Task Solving
Yue Lin, Shuhui Zhu, Wenhao Li +5
In multi-agent tasks, the central challenge lies in the dynamic adaptation of strategies. However, directly conditioning on opponents' strategies is intractable in the prevalent de…
Information Bargaining: Bilateral Commitment in Bayesian Persuasion
Yue Lin, Shuhui Zhu, William A Cunningham +4
Bayesian persuasion, an extension of cheap-talk communication, involves an informed sender committing to a signaling scheme to influence a receiver's actions. Compared to cheap tal…
Learning to Negotiate via Voluntary Commitment
Shuhui Zhu, Baoxiang Wang, Sriram Ganapathi Subramanian +1
The partial alignment and conflict of autonomous agents lead to mixed-motive scenarios in many real-world applications. However, agents may fail to cooperate in practice even when…