Vincent Conitzer
Professor
Studies the intersection of AI and economics, including computational game theory, mechanism design and the foundations of cooperative AI.
Vincent Conitzer's lab at CMU works on reasoning & neuro-symbolic AI, learning theory & optimization and computational social science. 60 papers since 2023. 6 PhD students. 33 alumni, most often to Google and Meta. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 16/ year
- at T1 venues
- 0%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 33
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 20 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 13 papers2025 · T1 0
- 15 papers2024 · T1 0
- 12 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOther
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Learning theory & optimization7 papers
- Computational social science5 papers
- Reasoning & neuro-symbolic AI4 papers
- mechanism1 paper
- computational game0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202620 papers
- The American Mathematical Monthly, to appear. DOI: 10.1080/00029890. .2588111.A Visual Proof of the Parallelogram Law (opens in a new tab)
- Working paper.Can CDT rationalise the ex ante optimal policy via modified anthropics? (opens in a new tab)
- Working paper.Can de se choice be ex ante reasonable in games of imperfect recall? (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR-26), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, .Convergence of Regret Matching in Potential Games and Constrained Optimization (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-26), Seoul, South Korea, . Honorable Mention at the ICML AI4GOOD Workshop.CoopEval: Benchmarking Cooperation-Sustaining Mechanisms and LLM Agents in Social Dilemmas (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR-26), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, .Designing Rules to Pick a Rule: Aggregation by Consistency (opens in a new tab)
- Honorable Mention at the ICML AI4GOOD Workshop.Do LLMs Take Care of Their Own? Similarity Signals Can Induce Cooperation (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS-26), Sydney, Australia, .Extending Myerson's Optimal Auctions to Correlated Bidders via Neural Network Interpolation (opens in a new tab)
- JME Practical Bioethics , 2:e000158.Moral AI without advice or preferences: a reply to Lindblom and Gustavsson (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26) Alignment Track, Singapore, .Moral Change or Noise? On Problems of Aligning AI With Temporally Unstable Human Feedback (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26), Singapore, .On the Edge of Core (Non-)emptiness: An Automated Reasoning Approach to Approval-based Multi-winner Voting (opens in a new tab)
- Note: this one has been resolved.Open problem: Computing the optimal deterministic budget-balanced mechanism (opens in a new tab)
202513 papers
- ASAE The Power of Associations Silver Award.AAAI 2025 Presidential Panel Report on the Future of AI Research (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS-25) Position Paper Track, San Diego, CA, USA and Mexico City, Mexico, .AI Testing Should Account for Sophisticated Strategic Behaviour (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI-25), Yokohama, Japan, .Can AI Model the Complexities of Human Moral Decision-Making? A Qualitative Study of Kidney Allocation Decisions (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25), Philadelphia, PA, USA, .Characterising simulation-based program equilibria (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK-25), Düsseldorf, Germany, .Choosing what game to play without selecting equilibria: results on inferring safe (Pareto) improvements in binary constraint structures (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25), Philadelphia, PA, USA, . Best Poster Award.Computing Game Symmetries and Equilibria That Respect Them (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Forty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-25), Vancouver, Canada, .Expected Variational Inequalities (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC-25), Stanford, CA, USA, . COMSOC Best Talk Award.From Independence of Clones to Composition Consistency: A Hierarchy of Barriers to Strategic Nomination (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-25), Detroit, MI, USA, .Game Theory with Simulation in the Presence of Unpredictable Randomisation (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC-25), Stanford, CA, USA, .Learning and Computation of Φ-Equilibria at the Frontier of Tractability (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Forty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-25), Vancouver, Canada, .Observation Interference in Partially Observable Assistance Games (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25), Philadelphia, PA, USA, .The Value of Recall in Extensive-Form Games (opens in a new tab)
202415 papers
- In Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS-24), Vancouver, Canada, .Aggregating Quantitative Relative Judgments: From Social Choice to Ranking Prediction (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-24), Jeju, South Korea, .Computing Optimal Equilibria in Repeated Games with Restarts (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-24), Jeju, South Korea, .Game Transformations That Preserve Nash Equilibria or Best Response Sets (opens in a new tab)
- Institute for Ethics in AI blog, 26 Feb .How ChatGPT has been prompted to respect safety, fairness, and copyright (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-24), Jeju, South Korea, .Imperfect-Recall Games: Equilibrium Concepts and Their Complexity (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS-24) (Datasets and Benchmarks Track), Vancouver, Canada, .Melting Pot Contest: Charting the Future of Generalized Cooperative Intelligence (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24), Vancouver, Canada, .Non-Excludable Bilateral Trade Between Groups (opens in a new tab)
- Communications of the ACM, to appear. AlsoNow, Later, and Lasting: Ten Priorities for AI Research, Policy, and Practice (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Seventh AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES-24), San Jose, CA, USA, .On the Pros and Cons of Active Learning for Moral Preference Elicitation (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Seventh AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES-24), San Jose, CA, USA, .On The Stability of Moral Preferences: A Problem with Computational Elicitation Methods (opens in a new tab)
- In Ben Davies, Neil Levy, Gabriel De Marco, and Julian Savulescu (editors), Responsibility and Healthcare, chapterShould Responsibility Affect Who Gets a Kidney? (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-24), Vienna, Austria, . AlsoSocial Choice Should Guide AI Alignment in Dealing with Diverse Human Feedback (opens in a new tab)
202312 papers
- The ACM Web Conference proceedings (TheWebConf-23), Austin, TX, USA, .A Dataset on Malicious Paper Bidding in Peer Review (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK-23), Oxford, UK, .A theory of bounded inductive rationality (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS-23), New Orleans, LA, USA, .Computing Optimal Equilibria and Mechanisms via Learning in Zero-Sum Extensive-Form Games (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC-23), London, UK, .Efficiently Solving Turn-Taking Stochastic Games with Extensive-Form Correlation (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-23) Senior Member / Blue Sky Track, Washington, DC, USA, .Foundations of Cooperative AI (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-23), Macao, .Game Theory with Simulation of Other Players (opens in a new tab)
- Strategic Voting and Strategic Candidacy. In S. Kurz, N. Maaser, and A. Mayer, editors, Advances in Collective Decision Making: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for the Century, Studies in Choice and WelfareMarkus Brill and Vincent Conitzer
- (Puzzle in honor of Joe Halpern's birthday.) SIGecom ExchangesPuzzle: Does Occasional Simulation Enable Cooperation? (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS-23), New Orleans, LA, USA, .Similarity-based cooperative equilibrium (opens in a new tab)
- Communications of the ACMTechnical Perspective: The Impact of Auditing for Algorithmic Bias (opens in a new tab)
- In Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-23), Macao, .The Computational Complexity of Single-Player Imperfect-Recall Games (opens in a new tab)
- Ethics and Trust in Human-AI Collaboration: Socio-Technical Approaches (writeup for invited talk in the corresponding workshop), Macao, . Official version (open access).Why should we ever automate moral decision making? (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went33 listed, 32% to industry
Industry 9Academia 19
Most often to
- Meta
- Uber
Also to
- the University of Virginia
- USC
- Academic Fellow at De Montfort University
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