Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab (FOCAL) at CMU @FOCAL_lab

Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab @CarnegieMellon. Creating foundations of game theory for advanced AI w/ focus on achieving cooperation. Directed by @conitzer. cs.cmu.edu/~focal/ Pittsburgh, PA, USA Joined January 2022

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

4 weeks ago

short paper by @Yoshua_Bengio and me about what LLMs tell us about our own mental lives (extended from earlier blog post) philpapers.org/rec/YOSWDL

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

2 months ago

(1/n) I noticed that on the IMO where several LLM-based systems just got gold medals, the fifth problem (the last one solved by Gemini Deep Think) was a game problem, so I had no excuse :-) not to try it myself first and then see how the solutions compared.

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

2 months ago

The Nash75 talks are on YouTube! Below is my talk "Game Theory for AI Agents" (link also gives all other talks on the side). youtube.com/watch?v=WO5xJI…

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

2 months ago

(2/2) Poster Thu 16:30 Observation Interference in Partially Observable Assistance Games (led by Scott Emmons and @C_Oesterheld) -- a model of the human-AI value alignment problem which allows the human and the AI assistant to have partial observations. arxiv.org/abs/2412.17797

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

2 months ago

(1/2) Two papers with authors from our @FOCAL_lab being presented at ICML @icmlconf in the next two days: Oral Wed 16:15 & Poster Wed 16:30 Expected Variational Inequalities (led by Brian Zhang and Ioannis Anagnostides). arxiv.org/abs/2502.18605

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

2 months ago

Want to know which game is better without making equilibrium selection assumptions? Caspar Oesterheld (@C_Oesterheld) is about to present our @FOCAL_lab paper at TARK, "Choosing What Game to Play Without Selecting Equilibria"! andrew.cmu.edu/user/coesterh/…

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

2 months ago

A fantastic group of young researchers at the Cooperative AI Summer School, bodes well for the future of cooperative AI!

Cooperative AI Foundation @coop_ai

2 months ago

A fantastic group of young researchers at the Cooperative AI Summer School, bodes well for the future of cooperative AI!

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

2 months ago

(2/2) From Independence of Clones to Composition Consistency: A Hierarchy of Barriers to Strategic Nomination W 1:30pm session Led by Emin Berker&relevant to evaluating AI, where it is easy to create very similar variants of a given AI system ("clones"). arxiv.org/abs/2502.16973

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

2 months ago

(1/2) @AcmSIGecom EC'25 has started! Two papers with coauthors from our @FOCAL_lab: Learning and Computation of Phi-Equilibria at the Frontier of Tractability W 8:30am session Led by Brian Zhang and Ioannis Anagnostides arxiv.org/abs/2502.18582

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

2 months ago

Looking forward to the 75 years of Nash equilibrium conference! I'll speak on game theory for AI agents. mfo.ac.uk/event/nash75-o…

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Jan Kulveit @jankulveit

3 months ago

Human-aligned AI Summer School @humanalignedai has an updated list of speakers @FazlBarez (Oxford) @lrhammond (@coop_ai) @EvanHub (Anthropic) @g_leech_ (@LeverhulmeCFI) Nathaniel Sauerberg (@FOCAL_lab) @noahysiegel (@GoogleDeepMind) @stanislavfort and Torben Swoboda. Apply ~now

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Cooperative AI Foundation @coop_ai

3 months ago

Join the first seminar in our new 'Updates in Cooperative AI' series exploring our recent 'Multi-Agent Risks' report, live June 26th (5pm BST, 9am PT, 12pm ET) alongside @lrhammond @ghadfield @MichaelD1729.

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

4 months ago

Looking forward to participating in the cooperative AI panel at AAMAS tonight! @AAMASconf @FOCAL_lab

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

4 months ago

Our Foundations of Cooperative AI tutorial at AAMAS is about to start (room Richard B)! All the materials are at the link below. @FOCAL_lab @AAMASconf cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer/FOCA…

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

4 months ago

AAMAS 2025 begins! Today is our workshop on Social Choice for AI Ethics and Safety. @AAMASconf sites.google.com/view/sc4ai/wor…

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

4 months ago

article on CMU papers at CHI'25 including our work on AI and Moral Decision-Making (with Vijay Keswani, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Breanna Nguyen, Hoda Heidari, Jana Schaich Borg; @SCSatCMU @FOCAL_lab) cs.cmu.edu/news/2025/chi2…

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

6 months ago

@EmanuelTewolde (and coauthor @C_Oesterheld) receiving the AAAI'25 best poster award from @TobyWalsh, for our paper "Computing Game Symmetries and Equilibria That Respect Them" (also with Brian Zhang and Tuomas Sandholm)! arxiv.org/abs/2501.08905

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

6 months ago

(3/3) And in the same session, Emanuel Tewolde will present "Computing Game Symmetries and Equilibria That Respect Them." underline.io/events/473/ses… arxiv.org/abs/2501.08905

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

6 months ago

(2/3) Then, today at 2:30pm in the game theory session, Emin Berker will present "The Value of Recall in Extensive-Form Games." underline.io/events/473/ses… arxiv.org/abs/2412.19659

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

6 months ago

(1/3) Three @FOCAL_lab papers at #AAAI2025! Starting with one from yesterday: Emery Cooper did a wonderful job presenting "Characterising simulation-based program equilibria." underline.io/events/473/ses… arxiv.org/abs/2412.14570