ICML 2026 Past Theory

New Frontiers in Game-Theoretic Learning - NExT-Game

ICML 2026 Workshop

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May 13, 2026, 12:00 UTC
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Accepted papers (64)

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  1. A Causal Approach to Game Theory

    Aurghya Maiti, Prateek Jain, Elias Bareinboim · PDF
  2. A Minimal Decision Capacity Threshold Prevents Catastrophic Exploitation in Self-Play RL

    Arahan Kujur · PDF
  3. Adversarial Training with Large Step Sizes: Implicit Bias and Evolution of Sharpness

    Yi Feng, Andrea Paudice, Stratis Skoulakis · PDF
  4. AgentSociety: Incentivizing Agentic Social Intelligence

    Aditya Vema Reddy Kesari, Krishna Reddy Kesari · PDF
  5. AlphaZero in Sparsely Rewarded Games: Limits and Auxiliary Supervision

    Brent Kong, Tejas Ram, Tony Yue YU · PDF
  6. Attention as Natural Gradient: In-Context Mirror Descent for Opponent Modelling

    Alexander Chernyavskiy, Natalia Gusarova, Aleksandra Vatian · PDF
  7. Bayesian Persuasion with a Risk-Conscious Receiver

    Yujing Chen · PDF
  8. Bellman-Local Lyapunov Barriers for Exact Stationary Nash Learning in Discounted Perfect-Information Stochastic Games

    Manoj Saravanan · PDF
  9. Beyond Scalar Rewards: Dense Feedback for LLM Policy Synthesis in Sequential Social Dilemmas

    Victor Gallego · PDF
  10. Beyond Task Success: Evaluating Cooperation in LLM-Based Multi Agent Systems

    Ashish Raj Shekhar, Saniya Mulla, Upasana Biswas, Priyanuj Bordoloi, Vivek Gupta · PDF
  11. Bridging Game Theory and Transformer Routing: Mean Field Equilibria for Mixture of Experts

    Nevroz Sen · PDF
  12. COMRAD: A Benchmark for Embodied Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Khoi H.B. Nguyen, Dimitar Zhivkov Zhekov, Tristan Tomilin · PDF
  13. Designing Training Objectives for Iterative Reasoning Agents: Dense Supervision as an Adaptive Mechanism

    Bao N Nguyen Truong, Hoyeon Chang, Alexander Rubinstein, Seong Joon Oh · PDF
  14. Do Prompted Strategic Personas Influence Decision Making in Large Language Models? A Chess-Based Experimental Study

    AADIT SHAH, Yash Sinha · PDF
  15. Dynamics of Adversarial Attacks on Large Language Model-Based Search Engines

    Xiyang Hu · PDF
  16. EMAgnet: Parameter-Space EMA Regularization for Policy Gradient Self-Play in Large Games

    Tristan Maidment, JB Lanier, Chase McDonald, Nathan Tsang, Eugene Vinitsky, Roy Fox, Albert Wang, Wesley N. Kerr · PDF
  17. EngineLab: Evaluating Strategic Generalization Under Rule Shifts

    Tianyi Evans Gu, Lucas Yuan · PDF
  18. Equilibrium Selection in Multi-Agent Policy Gradients via Opponent-Aware Basin Entry

    Yevhen Shcherbinin, Arina Redina, Maxim Kalpin, Vlad Kochetov · PDF
  19. Failure Modes in AI Retraining Dynamics

    Kiarash Banihashem, Natalie Collina, Aleksandrs Slivkins · PDF
  20. Fair Robust Strategic Classification under Decision-Dependent Cost Uncertainty

    Sura Alhanouti, Guzin Bayraksan, Parinaz Naghizadeh · PDF
  21. First-Order Efficiency for Probabilistic Value Estimation via A Statistical Viewpoint

    Ziqi Liu, Kiljae Lee, Yuan Zhang, Weijing Tang · PDF
  22. From Risk Scoring to Risk Allocation: A Density-Driven Framework for Diverse Monitoring in Multi-Agent Systems

    Zhaohui Geoffrey Wang · PDF
  23. GT-HarmBench: Benchmarking AI Safety Risks Through the Lens of Game Theory

    Pepijn Cobben, Xuanqiang Angelo Huang, Thao Amelia Pham, Isabel Dahlgren, Bernhard Schölkopf, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Zhijing Jin · PDF
  24. In-Context Credit Assignment via the Core

    Keegan Harris, Siddharth Prasad, Asher Trockman · PDF
  25. Incentive design in sequential statistical protocols

    Drew T Nguyen, Alireza Fallah, Michael I. Jordan · PDF
  26. Kantian Equilibrium in the Age of Multi-Agent Systems

    Ivan Samoylenko · PDF
  27. Learned Coordination Conventions in Cooperative MARL: Measuring the Translation Gap Between Theory-Informed Roles and Learned Routing

    Yoosung Hong · PDF
  28. Learning Bidding Strategies for Karma Economies in Realistic Traffic Settings with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Anastasia Psarou, Kevin Riehl, Matej Jusup, Anastasios Kouvelas, Michail A. Makridis, Rafal Kucharski · PDF
  29. Learning to Diffuse: Mechanism Design in Social Networks with Information Propagation Costs

    Sebastiano Messina, Tatjana Chavdarova · PDF
  30. Learning to Mediate Equilibrium Selection in LLM Games

    Miao Liu, Matthew Riemer, Maria Chang, Murray Campbell, Djallel Bouneffouf · PDF
  31. LERA: LLM-Enhanced RAG for Ad Auction in Generative Chatbots

    Haoran Sun, Xinrui Song, Xinyu Zhang, Zhaohua Chen, Xu Chu, Zhilin Zhang, Chuan Yu, Jian Xu, Bo Zheng, Xiaotie Deng · PDF
  32. MafiaPersona: A Multi-Agent Adversarial Benchmark for Evaluating Persona Persistence in Large Language Models

    Ojaswi Prakash, Dhruv Kumar, Murari Mandal, Mohan Kankanhalli, Yash Sinha · PDF
  33. Markov Chain from Human Feedback

    Takuya Koriyama, Tengyuan Liang · PDF
  34. Mechanism Design for Multi-Agent Alpha Discovery: Optimizing Agent Distribution in Heterogeneous LLM Markets

    Ajitabh Kumar · PDF
  35. Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning of Karma Bidding Strategies

    Kevin Riehl, Anastasia Psarou, Robert Müller, Fan Wu, Patrick Langer, Robert Jakob, Gabor Hollbeck, Anastasios Kouvelas, Rafal Kucharski, Michail A. Makridis · PDF
  36. Nash Bargaining for Gate-Free Mixture-of-Experts

    Abien Fred Agarap, Inigo Miguel Benavides, Sara Ann Venturina · PDF
  37. Neural Algorithmic Reasoning for Nash Equilibrium

    Mateusz Kuba Korytkowski, Dobrik Georgiev Georgiev, Davide Buffelli, Pietro Lio · PDF
  38. No-Regret Learning in Bayesian Stackelberg Games with Unknown Follower Types

    Matteo Bollini, Francesco Bacchiocchi, Samuel Coutts, Matteo Castiglioni, Alberto Marchesi · PDF
  39. Non-Linear Strategic Classification Made Practical

    Jack Geary, Henry Gouk · PDF
  40. Opponent Modeling and Value of Information in Deep Reinforcement Learning for the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma

    Oleksii Ignatenko, Nazarii Tkach · PDF
  41. Optimism as a Vulnerability: Deceptive Stackelberg Control of UCB Bandit Followers

    Şuayp Talha Kocabay, Kerem Yalçın, Talha Rüzgar Akkuş · PDF
  42. PALS: Preference-guided Active Automata Learning for Symbolic Reinforcement Learning in Games

    William Peter Fishell, Sam Kouteili, Mark Paul Santolucito, Christian Scaff · PDF
  43. Parametric Open Source Games

    Aleksandar Todorov, Jesse ten Napel, Alexander Müller · PDF
  44. Poker Arena: Multi-Axis Profiling of Strategic Reasoning and Memory in LLMs

    Pratham Singla, Shivank Garg, VIHAN SINGH · PDF
  45. PoolBench:Benchmarking Large Language Models on Continuous Physical Action Selection in Eight-Ball Pool

    Prapti Patra, Dhruv Kumar · PDF
  46. Position: Alignment Needs Rule-Class Routing Before Preference Learning

    Zezheng Lin, Jinhao Gan · PDF
  47. Power and Limitations of Aggregation in Compound AI Systems

    Nivasini Ananthakrishnan, Meena Jagadeesan · PDF
  48. Preference-Based Distributed Welfare Maximization: A Game-Theoretic Approach

    Antoine Bergerault, Anna Maria Maddux, Andreas Schlaginhaufen, Maryam Kamgarpour · PDF
  49. Scaling Laws for Strategic Interactions

    Joie Zhang, Danqi Chen, Peter Henderson, Lewis Hammond · PDF
  50. Seeing Through Distractions: Stable Attribution via the Core

    Sai Ganesh Nagarajan, Toshinori Yamauchi, Hiroshi Kera · PDF
  51. Self-Play Reinforcement Learning under Imperfect Information in Big 2

    Aalok Patwa · PDF
  52. Sequential Minimax Games as Stacked Martingale Optimal Transport

    Ethan Chen · PDF
  53. Signaling in Data Markets via Free Samples

    Nivasini Ananthakrishnan, Alireza Fallah, Michael I. Jordan · PDF
  54. Stackelberg Mean-Field Games for Adaptive Cancer Therapy

    Arash Mehrjou · PDF
  55. Strategic Testing in Games

    Angelos Korakitis, Christos Tzamos · PDF
  56. Superhuman AI for Generals.io Using Self-Play Reinforcement Learning

    Matej Straka, Martin Schmid · PDF
  57. The Clone Game: Strategic Ecology for Monoculture-Resistant AI Agents

    Muhammet Anil Yagiz · PDF
  58. The computational complexity of computing refunds

    Stelios Drakontaeidis, Christos Tzamos · PDF
  59. The Cost of Blind Confidence: Opponent Modeling under Imperfect Information

    Andrea Menta, Francesca Maifredi, Matteo Papini · PDF
  60. The Price of Over-Delegation: Stackelberg Liability Design for Agentic AI Handoffs

    Tomoya Hoshino · PDF
  61. The Symmetry Trap: Parametric Equilibria and the Welfare Cost of Architectural Monoculture

    Siddharth Karuturi, Kaustubh S. Bukkapatnam, Soham Batra, Mithil Shah, Tanush Ajay Shastry, Akshath Sharma, Laksh Patel, Aarav Lala, Andrew Bae · PDF
  62. Towards Learning Representations of Policies in Two-Player Zero-Sum Games

    Kevin A. Wang, Kevin Yang, Arjun Prakash, Amy Greenwald · PDF
  63. When Agents Lie: Premeditation, Persistence, and Exploitation in Repeated Games

    Jerick Shi, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Bernhard Schölkopf, Vincent Conitzer, Zhijing Jin · PDF
  64. Zero Shot Coordination for Sparse Reward Tasks with Diverse Reward Shapings

    Keenan Powell, Peihong Yu, Pratap Tokekar · PDF