3 papers
cs.GT2026
On the Power of Deception in Repeated Games
Saba Ahmadi, Avrim Blum, Dimitar Chakarov +1
In repeated games, opponents often predict what we'll do next by looking at what we have done so far. This allows us to deceive them: we can deliberately behave one way for a perio…
cs.LG2025
A Machine Learning Theory Perspective on Strategic Litigation
Melissa Dutz, Han Shao, Avrim Blum +1
Strategic litigation involves bringing a case to court with the goal of having an impact beyond resolving the particular dispute at hand. In a common law system, one way a case may…
cs.GT2024
Winning Without Observing Payoffs: Exploiting Behavioral Biases to Win Nearly Every Round
Avrim Blum, Melissa Dutz
Gameplay under various forms of uncertainty has been widely studied. Feldman et al. (2010) studied a particularly low-information setting in which one observes the opponent's actio…