2 papers
cs.GT2026
Bandit Social Learning with Exploration Episodes
Kiarash Banihashem, Natalie Collina, Aleksandrs Slivkins
We study a stylized social learning dynamics where self-interested agents collectively follow a simple multi-armed bandit protocol. Each agent controls an ``episode": a short seque…
cs.GT2025
Bandit Social Learning: Exploration under Myopic Behavior
Kiarash Banihashem, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Suho Shin +1
We study social learning dynamics motivated by reviews on online platforms. The agents collectively follow a simple multi-armed bandit protocol, but each agent acts myopically, wit…