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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium : Learning in Strategic Environments: Theory and Dat
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DTSTART:20160218T101500
DTEND:20160218T113000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:By : Vasilis Syrgkanis - Microsoft Research\nIC Faculty candid
 ateAbstract :\nThe strategic interaction of multiple parties with differen
 t objectives is at the heart of modern large scale computer systems and el
 ectronic markets. Participants face such complex decisions in these settin
 gs that the classic economic equilibrium is not a good predictor of their 
 behavior. The analysis and design of these systems has to go beyond equili
 brium assumptions. Evidence from online auction marketplaces suggests that
  participants rather use algorithmic learning. In the first part of the ta
 lk\, I will describe a theoretical framework for the analysis and design o
 f efficient market mechanisms\, with robust guarantees that hold under lea
 rning behavior\, incomplete information and in complex environments with m
 any mechanisms running at the same time. In the second part of the talk\, 
 I will describe a method for analyzing datasets from such marketplaces and
  inferring private parameters of participants under the assumption that th
 eir observed behavior is the outcome of a learning algorithm. I will give 
 an example application on datasets from Microsoft's sponsored search aucti
 on system.Bio :\nVasilis Syrgkanis is a postdoctoral researcher at Microso
 ft Research NYC\, where he is a member of the algorithmic economics and ma
 chine learning groups. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Corn
 ell University in 2014\, under the supervision of Prof. Eva Tardos. His re
 search addresses problems at the intersection of theoretical computer scie
 nce\, machine learning and economics. His work received best paper awards 
 at the 2015 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'15) and at the
  2015 Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS'15)
 . He was the recipient of the Simons Fellowship for graduate students in t
 heoretical computer science 2012-2014.More information
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420
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