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Poster

Safe Exploitative Play in Stochastic Bayesian Games with Untrusted Type Beliefs

Tongxin Li · Tinashe Handina · Shaolei Ren · Adam Wierman


Abstract:

The combination of the Bayesian game and learning has a rich history, with the idea of controlling a single agent in a system composed of multiple agents with unknown behaviors given a set of types, each specifying a possible behavior for the other agents. The idea is to plan an agent's own actions with respect to those types which it believes are most likely to maximize the payoff. However, the type beliefs are often learned from past actions and likely to be incorrect. With this perspective in mind, we consider an agent in a game with type predictions of other components, and investigate the impact of incorrect beliefs to the agent’s payoff. In particular, we formally define a trade-off between risk and opportunity by comparing the payoff obtained against the optimal payoff, which is represented by a gap caused by trusting or distrusting the learned beliefs. Our main results characterize the trade-off by providing upper and lower bounds on the payoff gap for both normal-form and stochastic Bayesian games, with numerical results provided.

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