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Lec. No. |
Date |
Topic |
Readings |
Further
Readings |
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General Background Reading |
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Background |
Algorithmic
Game Theory edited by N. Nisan, T. Roughfarden,
E. Tardos, and V. V. Vazirani.
(pdf copy under resources tab) Multiagent Systems by Y. Shoham
and K. Leyton-Brown |
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Game Theory |
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1 |
Tuesday Jan 15 |
Introduction and Nash Equilibrium |
AGT Ch1, MAS Ch 3 |
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2 |
Thursday Jan 17 |
Hardness of Nash Equilibrium |
The
Complexity of Computing A Nash Equilibrium by C. Daskalakis,
P. W. Goldberg, and C. H. Papadimitriou.
In Communications of the ACM
52(2):89-97, 2009. (Optionally, see the Full Version) |
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3 |
Tuesday Jan 22 |
Price of Anarchy |
Worst-Case
Equilibria by E. Koutsoupias and C.
Papadimitriou. In STACS'99, LNCS 1563: 404-413, 1999. (Focus on up to and including
Theorem 2) |
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4 |
Thursday Jan 24 |
Extensive Form Games |
Efficient
Computation of Behavior Strategies by B. von Stengel. In Games
and Economic Behavior 14: 220-246, 1996. (Sections 1-5) |
AGT Ch3, MAS Ch 5, H92, KMS96,
GS07,
S10,
HMD15,
FG17,
FGS18,
FCGS18 |
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5 |
Tuesday Jan 29 |
Class Cancelled (AAAI) |
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6 |
Thursday Jan 31 |
Class Cancelled (UIC Closed) |
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7 |
Tuesday Feb 5 |
Stackelberg Games |
Software
Assistants for Randomized Patrol Planning for The LAX Airport Police and The
Federal Air Marshals Service by M. Jain, J. Tsai, J. Pita, C. Kiekintveld, S. Rathi, R.
Ordonez, M.Tambe. In Interfaces
40(4): 267-290, 2010. |
CS06,
PPMTOK08, KYKCT11, YT12,
YJTKLSP12,
KFFST15,
C16, LSV17, KNFBSTJ17,
WASK18 |
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Skipped due to cancellation |
Market Equilibria |
Eisenberg-Gale markets: Algorithms and game-theoretic properties by K. Jain and V. Vazirani. In Games and Economic Behavior 70(1): 84-106, 2010. (Sections 1-3, paper is available on course Piazza) |
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No-regret
Learning |
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8 |
Thursday Feb 7 |
Multiplicative Weights |
Adaptive
game playing using multiplicative weights by Y. Freund and R. E. Schapire. In Games
and Economic Behavior 29(1-2): 79-204, 1999. (Sections 1-6.1) |
AGT Ch 4, AHK12,
ACFS95, ABH11,
DDK13, SALS15, NST15, FPS18, BMSW18, DISZ18, DP18 |
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9 |
Tuesday Feb 12 |
Internal Regret and Correlated Equilibria |
From
External to Internal Regret by A. Blum and Y. Mansour. In Journal
of Machine Learning Research 8:1307-1324, 2007. (Sections 1-3) |
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10 |
Thursday Feb 14 |
Counterfactual Regret Minimization |
Regret
Minimization in Games with Incomplete Information by M. Zinkevich, M. Johanson, M.
Bowling, and C. Piccione. In NIPS:
1729-1736, 2008 |
LWZB09,
LGBB12,
BBJT15,
MSBLMBDWJB17,
BS18,
JKL18, SLZPTMB18,
KH18 |
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Information
Elicitation |
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11 |
Tuesday Feb 19 |
Scoring Rules |
Verification
of forecasts expressed in terms of probability by G. W. Brier. Monthly Weather Review 78(1):1–3,
1950. |
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12 |
Thursday Feb 21 |
Prediction Markets |
Logarithmic
Market Scoring Rules for Modular Combinatorial Information Aggregation by
R. Hanson. In Journal of Prediction
Markets 1(1):3-15, 2007. |
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Mechanism
Design |
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13 |
Tuesday Feb 26 |
Mechanism Design |
Truthful
mechanisms for one-parameter agents by A. Archer and E. Tardos. In FOCS 2001. (Sections 1-5.1) |
AGT
Ch9, MAS C10, Nobel07,
MDnA, R87,
KM01,
SY05,
BCLMNS06,
AK08,
ABHM10 |
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14 |
Thursday Feb 28 |
Online Mechanism Design |
Online
Auctions with Re-usable Goods by M. T. Hajiaghayi,
R. D. Kleinberg, M. Mahdian, and D. C. Parkes. In ACM EC 2005. (Sections 1-5) |
AGT
Ch16, PD07, GRSPRJ11,
AKLMNY15, CHLMQTWZ16 |
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Friday Mar 1 |
Project
Proposal Due |
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15 |
Tuesday Mar 5 |
Prophet
Inequalities |
Automated Mechanism Design and Prophet Inequalities by M. Hajiaghayi, R. Kleiberg, and T. Sandholm. In AAAI 2007. |
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16 |
Thursday Mar 7 |
Mechanism
Design without Money |
Approximate Mechanism Design without Money by A. D. Procaccia and M. Tennenholtz. In ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation 1(4):18, 2013 (Sec1-3) |
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17 |
Tuesday Mar 12 |
Dominant
Resource Fairness |
Dominant
Resource Fairness: Fair Allocation of Multiple Resource Types by A. Ghodsi, M. Zaharia, B. Hindman, A. Konwinski, S. Shenker, and I. Stoica. In NSDI
2011. Beyond
Dominant Resource Fairness: Extension, Limitations, and Indivisibilities
by D. C. Parkes, A. D. Procaccia, and N. Shah. In ACM
Transactions on Economics and Computation 3(1):3, 2015. (Sec 1-3) (Read your choice of the two papers) |
DFHKL11,
GN12, KPS14,
FGP14, FPV15,
FPV17, FMS18, KOV18, KPS19,
FGPS19, CKMPSW19 |
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18 |
Thursday Mar 14 |
School
Choice |
Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with
Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match by A. Abulkadiroglu, P. A. Pathak, and A. E. Roth. In American Economic Review
99(5): 1954-1978, 2009. |
Nobel12,
APR05, APRS06, DB13,
ACY15, ACPR17, BCKO17,
APW18, DMS18, Al Roth’s
Links |
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19 |
Tuesday Mar 19 |
Kidney
Exchanges |
Optimizing
Kidney Exchange with Transplant Chains: Theory and Reality by J. P.
Dickerson, A. D. Procaccia, and T. Sandholm.
In AAMAS 2012. (Skip Section
4) |
RSU04,
AS09,
DPS13,
DDLS15,
AFKP15, AAAFK18,
Al
Roth’s Links |
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Auction Theory |
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20 |
Thursday Mar 21 |
VCG
Auction |
Algorithmic
Mechanism Design by N. Nisan and A. Ronen. In Games and Economic Behavior 35: 166-196, 2001. (Sections 1-3) |
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March 25-29 |
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Spring Break, No classes |
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21 |
Tuesday Apr 2 |
Sponsored
Search Auctions |
Internet Advertising and the
Generalized Second Price Auction: Selling Billions of Dollars
Worth of Keywords by B. Edelman, M. Ostrovsky,
M. Schwarz. In American
Economic Review 97(1): 242-259, 2007 Position Auctions by H. Varian. In International
Journal of Industrial Organization 25:1163-1178, 2007 (Optional
Supplement) |
AGT Ch 28, AGM06,
LP07, KM08, LM11, AE11,
AABG13,
LR15, RGKP16,
BCKKK14, BCKKK16 |
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22 |
Thursday Apr 4 |
Revenue-Optimal
Auctions |
Optimal
Auction Design by R. B. Myerson.
In Mathematics of Operations
Research 61): 58-73, 1981. (Sections 1-6) |
AGT Ch 13, H06 (lecture notes) |
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Friday Apr 5 |
Initial Project Report Due |
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23 |
Tuesday Apr 9 |
Combinatorial
Auctions |
Combinatorial
Auctions: A Survey by S. de Vries and R. V.
Vohra. In INFORMS Journal on Computing 15(3): 284-309, 2003 (Sections
1-3.1, 4-4.2) |
AGT Ch 11 RSB82,
LPS00, DM08,
L11, RCL11,
MDLR14, BSL15,
ALT16, WLS17,
LMS17, NFL18 |
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24 |
Thursday Apr 11 |
Pay-Per-Bid
Auctions |
Information
Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions by J. W. Byers, M. Mitzenmacher, and G. Zervas. In ACM
EC 2010. |
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Other Applications |
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25 |
Tuesday Apr 16 |
Ride-sharing |
Spatial
Pricing in Ride-sharing Networks by K. Bimpikis,
O. Candogan, and D. Saban. In Operations
Research, Forthcoming. (Sections 1, 2, 4.2) |
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26 |
Thursday Apr 18 |
High-frequency
Trading |
The
High-Frequency Trading Arms Race: Frequent Batch Auctions as a Market Design
Response by E. Budish, P. Crampton, and J.
Shim. In Quarterly Journal of Economics 130(4): 1547-1621, 2015.
(Sections 1, 3, 6 through Proposition 1, 7A+B, 8) |
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27 |
Tuesday Apr 23 |
Blockchain |
Bitcoin Mining
Pools: A Cooperative Game Theoretic Analysis by Y. Lewenberg,
Y. Bachrach, Y. Sompolinsky, A. Zohar, and J. S. Rosenschein. In AAMAS 2015. |
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28 |
Thursday Apr 25 |
Privacy |
Mechanism
Design via Differential Privacy by
F. McSherry and K. Talwar. In FOCS07:
94-103, 2007. |
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29 |
Tuesday Apr 30 |
Project
Presentations |
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30 |
Thursday May 2 |
Project
Presentations |
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Friday May 3 |
Final Project Report Due |
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