The Algorithmic Learning in Games seminar is a joint effort between faculty at London School of Economics, the University of Waterloo, Imperial College London and, King's College London.
We meet once every fortnight to discuss problems and research in a range of topics related to:
Game Theory
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Learning in Games
Multi-Agent Systems
Recordings of our past sessions can be found here.
Next Talk
Our next session will be lead by Yoav Kolumbus on March 23rd 2026 at 16:00 GMT. Please see further details below:
Yoav Kolumbus - Assistant Research Professor of Computer Science and Economics at Cornell University
Learning-based algorithmic agents increasingly mediate major markets and online platforms, reshaping their dynamics and economic outcomes. This transition raises foundational questions about how decision makers should interact with such systems and how learning agents affect market behavior. In this talk, I will discuss some of these questions and present results from the paper Markets with Heterogeneous Agents: Dynamics and Survival of Bayesian vs. No-Regret Learners. The paper studies competition between heterogeneous learning agents in asset markets with stochastic payoffs. We compare Bayesian learning and no-regret learning and analyze how these different approaches interact in a competitive environment. A central finding is that regret plays a key role in market selection, but low regret alone does not guarantee survival: an agent may succeed in achieving even logarithmic regret and yet be driven out of the market when competing against a Bayesian learner with a finite prior that assigns positive probability to the correct model. At the same time, we show that Bayesian learning is highly fragile, while no-regret learning requires less knowledge of the environment and is therefore more robust. Motivated by this contrast, we demonstrate a simple balanced strategy that incorporates Bayesian updates while improving robustness and adaptability to distribution shifts, taking a step toward a best-of-both-worlds learning approach.
Organisers
London School of Economics
University of Waterloo
Imperial College London
King's College London
Schedule
We intend to meet every other Monday from 16:00 - 17:00 GMT - please allow for slight changes to this schedule as needed.
Upcoming Speakers
Past Speakers
Recordings of past sessions can be found here or via the title of the respective talk in the spreadsheet below.
Sign-Up Form
We are open to any interested in joining the seminar, both as a member of the audience and as a speaker. To get in touch, please fill out the form below and we will get back to you as soon as possible.