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Payoff landscapes and the robustness of selfish optimization in iterated games
Arjun Mirani, Alex McAvoy
In iterated games, a player can unilaterally exert influence over the outcome through a careful choice of strategy. A powerful class of such "payoff control" strategies was discove…
Selfish optimization and collective learning in populations
Alex McAvoy, Yoichiro Mori, Joshua B. Plotkin
A selfish learner seeks to maximize their own success, disregarding others. When success is measured as payoff in a game played against another learner, mutual selfishness typicall…
Evolutionary instability of selfish learning in repeated games
Alex McAvoy, Julian Kates-Harbeck, Krishnendu Chatterjee +1
Across many domains of interaction, both natural and artificial, individuals use past experience to shape future behaviors. The results of such learning processes depend on what in…