ICLR 2026 Past Interpretability

The First Workshop on AI for Mechanism Design and Strategic Decision Making

ICLR 2026 Workshop AIMS

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Feb 4, 2026, 17:00 UTC
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Accepted papers (77)

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  1. A Comparative Study of Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Dynamic Option Hedging

    Andrei Neagu, Frédéric Godin, Leila Kosseim · PDF
  2. A Robust Multi-Item Auction Design with Statistical Learning

    Jiale Han, Xiaowu Dai · PDF
  3. Adaptive Bandit Algorithms for Contextual Matching Markets

    Shiyun Lin, Simon Mauras, Vianney Perchet, Nadav Merlis · PDF
  4. Advancing Regulation in Artificial Intelligence: An Auction-Based Approach

    Marco Bornstein, Zora Che, Suhas Julapalli, Abdirisak Mohamed, Amrit Singh Bedi, Furong Huang · PDF
  5. Agent Exchange: An Auction Platform for AI Agent Marketplaces

    Yingxuan Yang, Ying Wen, Jun Wang, Weinan Zhang · PDF
  6. Agentic Federated Learning: The Future of Distributed Training Orchestration

    Rafael O. Jarczewski, Gabriel Ukstin Talasso, Leandro Aparecido Villas, Allan M. de Souza · PDF
  7. Agentic Large Language Models for Decentralized Multi-agent Games

    Dom Huh, Prasant Mohapatra · PDF
  8. AgenticPay: A Multi-Agent LLM Negotiation System for Buyer–Seller Transactions

    Xianyang Liu, Shangding Gu, Dawn Song · PDF
  9. Agents for Experiment, Experiments for Agents: A Topological Framework for Automated Mechanism Discovery

    Yingjie Zhang, Weizhang Zhu, chun feng, Tianshu Sun · PDF
  10. AI Realtor: Towards Grounded Persuasive Language Generation for Automated Copywriting

    Chenghao Yang, Jibang Wu, Yi Wu, Simon Mahns, Chaoqi Wang, Hao Zhu, Fei Fang, Haifeng Xu · PDF
  11. AIGP: An LLM-Based Framework for Long-Term Value Alignment in E-Commerce Pricing

    Chennan Ma, Yanning Zhang, Siqi Hong, Xiuchong Wang, Fei Xiao, Keping Yang, Bo Zheng · PDF
  12. Allocate Marginal Reviews to Borderline Papers Using LLM Comparative Ranking

    Elliot L Epstein, Rajat Vadiraj Dwaraknath, John Winnicki, Thanawat Sornwanee · PDF
  13. Automating Forecasting Question Generation and Resolution for AI Evaluation

    Lawrence Gabriel Phillips, Nikos I. Bosse, Peter Mühlbacher, Jack Wildman, Dan Schwarz · PDF
  14. Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons in AI Regulation via Dynamic Licensing

    Rajeev Verma, Anurag Singh, Christian A. Naesseth, Eric Nalisnick, Krikamol Muandet · PDF
  15. Belief Estimation as Probabilistic Constraints for Performing Strategic Dialogue Acts

    Hengli Li, Zhaoxin Yu, Qi Shen, Chenxi Li, Mengmeng Wang, Tinglang Wu, Yipeng Kang, Yuxuan Wang, Song-Chun Zhu, Zixia Jia, Zilong Zheng · PDF
  16. C2: Cenerative learning module enhanced decision transformer with Constraint-aware loss for auto-bidding

    Jinren Ding, Xuejian Xu, Shen Jiang, Zhitong Hao, Jinhui Yang, Peng Jiang · PDF
  17. CAFE-RL: Counterfactual Augmented Reinforcement Learning for Mechanism-Aware Onboarding Fraud Detection in E-Commerce

    Linfeng Cao, Hang Yin, Yang Zhao, Xinze Guan, Qiang Wang, Ming Ouyang · PDF
  18. CASCADE: Cascaded Scoped Communication for Multi-Agent Re-planning in Disrupted Industrial Environments

    Mingjie Bi · PDF
  19. Cheap Talk, Empty Promise: Frontier LLMs easily break public promises for self-interest

    Jerick Shi, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Vincent Conitzer, Zhijing Jin · PDF
  20. COBRA: Contextual Bandit Algorithm for Ensuring Truthful Strategic Agents

    Arun Verma, Indrajit Saha, Makoto Yokoo, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low · PDF
  21. Code Driven Game Theoretic Evolution of LLM Agents as Holistic Strategy Generators

    Siwei Li, Xin Wang · PDF
  22. Computing Equilibria in Games with Stochastic Action Sets

    Thomas Schwarz, Ryann Sim, Chun Kai Ling · PDF
  23. Continuous RTS-PnO: Constraint-Aware Training for Robust Rolling-Horizon Budget Allocation

    Rassul Magauin, Fuyuan Lyu, Lu Han, Xue Liu · PDF
  24. CoopEval: Benchmarking Cooperation-Sustaining Mechanisms and LLM Agents in Social Dilemmas

    Emanuel Tewolde, Xiao Zhang, David Guzman Piedrahita, Vincent Conitzer, Zhijing Jin · PDF
  25. Credibility Governance: A Social Mechanism for Collective Self-Correction under Weak Truth Signals

    Wanying He, Lin Yanxi, Zhou Ziheng, Xue Feng, Min Peng, Qianqian Xie, Zilong Zheng, Yipeng Kang · PDF
  26. Decision Making under Imperfect Recall: Algorithms and Benchmarks

    Emanuel Tewolde, Brian Hu Zhang, Ioannis Anagnostides, Tuomas Sandholm, Vincent Conitzer · PDF
  27. DecisionLLM: Large Language Models for Long Sequence Decision Exploration

    Xiaowei Lv, Zhilin Zhang, Yijun Li, Yusen Huo, Siyuan Ju, Xuyan Li, Hong Chunxiang, Tianyu Wang, Yongcai Wang, Peng Sun, Chuan Yu, Jian Xu, Bo Zheng · PDF
  28. DIRECTING THE UNSCRIPTED: ALT-MIRAGE FOR EMERGENT SOCIAL DECEPTION DRAMA

    Liu Yan, Baoyang Chen, Zhao Yang, Huamin Qu, Zhai Lidong · PDF
  29. Do LLMs Act Like Rational Agents? Measuring Belief Coherence in Probabilistic Decision Making

    Khurram Yamin, Jingjing Tang, Santiago Cortes-Gomez, Amit Sharma, Eric Horvitz, Bryan Wilder · PDF
  30. Equilibrium Structure of High-Resolution Differential Equations for Min–Max Optimization

    Federico Praolini, Tatjana Chavdarova · PDF
  31. Explicit Budget Optimization: Activating Traffic under Budget Constraints in Cold-Start Ad Bidding

    Hongchang Wu, Size Wang, Weitong Ou, Zixin Shao, Feihong Liu, Yang Liu, Hongyan Xue, Nianhua Xie · PDF
  32. Fine-tuning Large Language Model for Automated Algorithm Design

    Fei Liu, Rui Zhang, Xi Lin, Zhichao Lu, Qingfu Zhang · PDF
  33. GoT: Robust Information Seeking with LLMs using Game Theory

    Langyuan Cui, Chun Kai Ling, Hwee Tou Ng · PDF
  34. GraphScholar: Compositional Strategic Decision Making for Knowledge Graph Reasoning via Relation-Dependency Graphs

    Zhonglin Jiang, Hange Zhou, Enjun Du, Xuefeng, Sihao Chen, yingjie cui, Jingcheng Sha, Yong Chen, Yongqi Zhang · PDF
  35. GT-HarmBench: Benchmarking AI Safety Risks Through the Lens of Game Theory

    Pepijn Cobben, X. Angelo Huang, Thao Amelia Pham, Isabel Dahlgren, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Zhijing Jin · PDF
  36. How LLMs Reshape Equilibrium: A Study of Human-AI Competition in Auctions

    Yuehu Zhao, Ruoran Chen, Yuxuan Zhang, Simin Huang · PDF
  37. Influence-Salient Coordination Shaping for Scalable Cooperative MARL

    Wei Sheng, Rohan Paleja · PDF
  38. Iterative Scarcity-Guided Exploration: Bootstrapping Generative Auto-bidding from Narrow Support

    Qingmao Yao, Guangzheng Hu, Yusen Huo, Zhilin Zhang, Chuan Yu, Jian Xu, Bo Zheng, Xiaotie Deng · PDF
  39. Keep Everyone Happy: Online Fair Division of Numerous Items with Few Copies

    Arun Verma, Indrajit Saha, Makoto Yokoo, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low · PDF
  40. Leaderboard Incentives: Model Rankings under Strategic Post-Training

    Yatong Chen, Guanhua Zhang, Moritz Hardt · PDF
  41. Learning Against a Strategic Agent in Principal-Agent Games

    Raj Kiriti Velicheti, Subhonmesh Bose, Tamer Basar · PDF
  42. Learning Revenue-Maximizing Auctions with Neural Affine Maximizer

    Yunxuan Ma · PDF
  43. Learning to Staff: Offline Reinforcement Learning and Fine-Tuned LLMs for Warehouse Staffing Optimization

    Kalle Kujanpää, Yuying Zhu, Kristina Lisa Klinkner, Shervin Malmasi · PDF
  44. LLM-as-a-Prophet: Understanding AI's Predictive Intelligence with Prophet Arena

    Qingchuan Yang, Simon Mahns, Sida Li, Anri Gu, Jibang Wu, Haifeng Xu · PDF
  45. LLM-Auction: Generative Auction towards LLM-Native Advertising

    Chujie Zhao, Qun Hu, Shiping Song, Dagui Chen, Han Zhu, Jian Xu, Bo Zheng · PDF
  46. Make an Offer They Can't Refuse: Grounding Bayesian Persuasion in Real-World Dialogues without Pre-Commitment

    Buwei He, Yang Liu, Zhaowei Zhang, Zixia Jia, Huijia Wu, Zhaofeng He, Zilong Zheng, Yipeng Kang · PDF
  47. MaRCA: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Computation Allocation in Large-Scale Recommender Systems

    Wan Jiang, Xinyi Zang, Yudong Zhao, Yusi Zou, Yunfei Lu, Junbo Tong, Yang Liu, Ming Li, Jiani Shi, Xin Yang · PDF
  48. Miscalibrated Belief Updates in LLM Agents under Strategic Uncertainty

    Harry Ilanyan, Krish Jain · PDF
  49. On the Edge of Core (Non-)Emptiness: An Automated Reasoning Approach to Approval-Based Multi-Winner Voting

    Ratip Emin Berker, Emanuel Tewolde, Vincent Conitzer, Mingyu Guo, Marijn Heule, Lirong Xia · PDF
  50. Optimal Aggregation Mechanisms for AI Benchmarking and Platinum Benchmarks

    Andreas Haupt, Anka Reuel, Mykel Kochenderfer, Sanmi Koyejo · PDF
  51. Optimal Control Meets Online Mechanism: Adaptive Policy Learning with Strategic Agent Response

    Juan P. Madrigal Cianci · PDF
  52. Optimal Treatment Assignment from Observational Data: A Decision-focused Learning Approach via Pseudo Labels

    Jiaqi Yang, Zicheng Su, Zhichao Zou, Zhen Peng, Wanjing Ma, Kun An · PDF
  53. Optimally Curating an Event

    MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Sebastien Lahaie, Mohammad Mahdavi, Suho Shin · PDF
  54. Pacing with ROI: Budget Allocation in Sponsored Search

    Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid, Djordje Gligorijevic, Arnob Ghosh, Andrew Perrault, Xinxin Shu, Ness Shroff, Abraham Bagherjeiran · PDF
  55. Pay for The Second-Best Service: A Game-Theoretic Approach Against Dishonest LLM Providers

    Yuhan Cao, Yu Wang, Sitong Liu, Miao Li, Yixin Tao, Tianxing He · PDF
  56. Performative Personalization Incentivizes Truthfulness in Federated Learning

    Kumar Kshitij Patel, Aniket Murhekar · PDF
  57. Persona Vectors in Games: Measuring and Steering Strategies via Activation Vectors

    Johnathan Sun, Andrew Zhang · PDF
  58. Personalization Aids Pluralistic Alignment Under Competition

    Natalie Collina, Surbhi Goel, Aaron Roth, Mirah Shi · PDF
  59. Post-Training LLMs as Better Decision-Making Agents: A Regret-Minimization Approach

    Chanwoo Park, Ziyang Chen, Asuman E. Ozdaglar, Kaiqing Zhang · PDF
  60. Prices, Bids, Values: One ML-Powered Combinatorial Auction to Rule Them All

    Ermis Soumalias, Jakob Heiss, Jakob Weissteiner, Sven Seuken · PDF
  61. Prompt Optimization Enables Stable Algorithmic Collusion in LLM Agents

    Yingtao Tian · PDF
  62. Robust Trust

    Piotr Dworczak, Alex Smolin · PDF
  63. SAC-Opt: Semantic Anchors for Iterative Correction in Optimization Modeling

    Yansen Zhang, Qingcan Kang, Yujie chen, Yufei Wang, Xiongwei Han, Tao Zhong, Mingxuan Yuan, Chen Ma · PDF
  64. SEGB: SELF-EVOLVED GENERATIVE BIDDING WITH LOCAL AUTOREGRESSIVE DIFFUSION

    Yulong Gao, Wan Jiang, Mingzhe Cao, Xuepu Wang, Zeyu Pan, Haonan Yang, Ye Liu, Xin Yang · PDF
  65. Selling Data as a Digital Good with Scaling Valuations

    Xiaotie Deng, Yanru Guan, Ningyuan Li, Zihe Wang, Wu Xin, Jie Zhang · PDF
  66. SOK: A Taxonomy of Attack Vectors and Defense Strategies for Agentic Supply Chain Runtime

    Shiqi Yang, Wenting Yang, Xiaochong Jiang, Cheng Ji, Yichen Liu · PDF
  67. Steering LLMs for Multi-agent Decision-making using Representation Learning

    Dom Huh, Prasant Mohapatra · PDF
  68. Strategic Hypothesis Testing

    Yatong Chen, Safwan Hossain, Yiling Chen · PDF
  69. Test-Time Compute Games

    Ander Artola Velasco, Dimitrios Rontogiannis, Stratis Tsirtsis, Manuel Gomez Rodriguez · PDF
  70. Text as the Richest Preference Signal

    André F Cruz, Jon Kleinberg, Rediet Abebe · PDF
  71. Toward a Dynamic Stackelberg Game-Theoretic Framework for Agentic AI Defense Against LLM Jailbreaking

    Zhengye Han, Quanyan Zhu · PDF
  72. Towards Predictive Models of Strategic Behaviour in Large Language Model Agents

    Jennifer Za, Aristeidis Panos, Jan Cuhel, Samuel Albanie · PDF
  73. Understanding Agent Scaling in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems via Diversity

    Yingxuan Yang, Chengrui Qu, Muning Wen, Laixi Shi, Ying Wen, Weinan Zhang, Adam Wierman, Shangding Gu · PDF
  74. Very Credible Auction

    Thanawat Sornwanee · PDF
  75. Visualizing Coalition Formation: From Hedonic Games to Image Segmentation

    Pedro Henrique de Paula Franca, Lucas Lopes Felipe, Daniel Sadoc Menasche · PDF
  76. What-If Analysis of Large Language Models: Explore the Game World Using Proactive Thinking

    Yuan Sui, Yanming Zhang, Yi Liao, Yu Gu, Guohua Tang, Zhongqian Sun, Yang Wei, Bryan Hooi · PDF
  77. Who to Ask and What to Ask: Adaptive Multi-Turn Group Elicitation with LLMs

    Ruomeng Ding, Tianwei Gao, Thomas P Zollo, Eitan Bachmat, Richard Zemel, Zhun Deng · PDF