Mind Reading: Probably Maybe I Think You Think

Abstract: Many interesting problems involve multiple interacting decision makers. Examples include cooperative surveillance under jamming, autonomous driving, and cyber security. Formalizing such interactive decision-making problems require a "theory of mind", in which each actor reasons about the others' reasoning. In other words, actor $i$ has to consider what beliefs the other actors have about actor $i$'s belief about their beliefs, and so on ad infinitum. This talk presents a high-level introduction to the mathematical formalization of such type of "I think you think..."-reasoning using so-called beliefs hierarchies.

Mathematics

Audience: general audience

Gothenburg PhD seminar

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