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Complexity Forum: Doyne Farmer (INET, Oxford)
Location: D1.07
Complex dynamics of evolutionary games
When are do the strategies of the players of a game converge to equilibrium when the players have to learn their strategies? In this talk we investigate this for generic games when the players use variations on reinforcement learning. In some cases players converge quickly to a unique fixed point equilibrium, but in others they converge to limit cycles or chaotic attractors, in which their strategies wander around the space of possibilities without ever settling down. We show that the outcome depends on both properties of the game and properties of the learning strategies. The results suggest that it may be possible to predict the qualitative outcome with a few simple rules, reminiscent of the Reynolds number in fluid turbulence.
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