Combination of institutional incentives for cooperative governance of risky commons

W Sun, L Liu, X Chen, A Szolnoki, VV Vasconcelos - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
Finding appropriate incentives to enforce collaborative efforts for governing the commons in
risky situations is a long-lasting challenge. Previous works have demonstrated that both …

Convergence of learning dynamics in stackelberg games

T Fiez, B Chasnov, LJ Ratliff - arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.01217, 2019 - arxiv.org
This paper investigates the convergence of learning dynamics in Stackelberg games. In the
class of games we consider, there is a hierarchical game being played between a leader …

Adaptive incentive design with multi-agent meta-gradient reinforcement learning

J Yang, E Wang, R Trivedi, T Zhao, H Zha - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Critical sectors of human society are progressing toward the adoption of powerful artificial
intelligence (AI) agents, which are trained individually on behalf of self-interested principals …

The effectiveness of subsidies and tolls in congestion games

BL Ferguson, PN Brown… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Are rewards or penalties more effective in influencing user behavior? This article compares
the effectiveness of subsidies and tolls in incentivizing user behavior in congestion games …

Principled penalty-based methods for bilevel reinforcement learning and rlhf

H Shen, Z Yang, T Chen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.06886, 2024 - arxiv.org
Bilevel optimization has been recently applied to many machine learning tasks. However,
their applications have been restricted to the supervised learning setting, where static …

Value of information in incentive design: A case study in simple congestion networks

BL Ferguson, PN Brown… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is well-known that system performance can experience significant degradation from the
self-interested choices of human users. Accordingly, in this article, we study the question of …

Generalized wardrop equilibrium for charging station selection and route choice of electric vehicles in joint power distribution and transportation networks

BG Bakhshayesh, H Kebriaei - IEEE Transactions on Control of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents the equilibrium analysis of a game composed of heterogeneous electric
vehicles (EVs) and a power distribution system operator (DSO) as the players, and charging …

Fairo: Fairness-aware adaptation in sequential-decision making for human-in-the-loop systems

T Zhao, M Taherisadr, S Elmalaki - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.05857, 2023 - arxiv.org
Achieving fairness in sequential-decision making systems within Human-in-the-Loop (HITL)
environments is a critical concern, especially when multiple humans with different behavior …

Towards robots that influence humans over long-term interaction

S Sagheb, YJ Mun, N Ahmadian… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When humans interact with robots influence is inevitable. Consider an autonomous car
driving near a human: the speed and steering of the autonomous car will affect how the …

Blockchain technology for pay-for-outcome sustainable agriculture financing: implications for governance and transaction costs

KHY Chung, P Adriaens - Environmental Research …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Pay-for-outcome financing mechanisms have been used to address agricultural runoffs to
overcome the inefficiencies associated with push-based solutions, which are dependent on …