Final Program
Workshop: LLMs and Strategic Agents for Machine Learning | IDEAL Institute
Attendance is free, but participants are asked to register for the workshop using the following link:
https://www.ideal-institute.org/2026/03/02/llms-and-strategic-agents-for-machine-learning/
Registration & Welcome Coffee
Opening Remarks
Invited Talk 1: Parinaz Naghizadeh
Morning Coffee Break
Shadows of Power: Elite Networks under Authoritarian Purges
Yiqun Tong (Penn State University, United States)
Decentralized Fair Division
Joel Miller (University of Illinois, USA)
Rishi Advani (University of Illinois, USA)
Chris Kanich (University of Illinois, USA)
Lenore Zuck (University of Illinois, USA)
Ian Kash (University of Illinois, USA)
Quantum-Like Nash Equilibrium: A Generalization of Strategic Behavior Beyond Classical Probability
Aayush Gauba (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, United States)
Lunch Break
Explainable Security Investment: A Shapley Value Inspired Metric
S. Destyny Ho (University of Exeter, United Kingdom)
Yunxiao Zhang (University of Exeter, United Kingdom)
Achim D. Brucker (University of Exeter, United Kingdom)
The Complexity of Nash and Stackelberg Equilibrium in Wireless Network Games
Li Zhang (Illinois Institute of Technology, United States)
Sanjiv Kapoor (Illinois Institute of Technology, United States)
Comparison of Market Models for Time/Frequency Prioritized Spectrum Sharing
Qixuan Zai (Northwestern University, United States)
Yaxuan Liu (Northwestern University, United States)
Randall Berry (Northwestern University, United States)
Afternoon Coffee Break
Dual-Channel Closed Loop Supply Chain Competition: A Stackelberg–Nash Approach
Gurkirat Wadhwa (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
Berk-Nash Markov Games: Mathematical Programming Approach
Wrap-up & Daily Closing Announcements
Conference Dinner
Morning Coffee
Invited Talk 2: Haifeng Xu
Invited Talk 3: Rasoul Etesami
Coffee Break
Custom Keep-Alive Cache Policies
Sushirdeep Narayana (Wesleyan University, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Ian Kash (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Distributed Consensus in Sensor Networks with Symmetric Strategic Node Activation
Sameed Ahmed (IMT – School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy)
Leonardo Badia (University of Padua, Italy)
Giorgio Gnecco (IMT – School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy)
Daniela Selvi (University of Pisa, Italy)
Invited Talk 4: Shreyas Sundaram
Closing Remarks & Conference End
Best Paper Announcement
Day 0 - 25 March, 2026
Co-located Workshop:
LLMs and Strategic Agents for Machine Learning | IDEAL Institute
Attendance is free, but participants are requested to register at:
https://www.ideal-institute.org/2026/03/02/llms-and-strategic-agents-for-machine-learning/
Day 1 - 26 March, 2026
Registration & Welcome Coffee
Opening Remarks
Invited Talk 1:
Bias and Uncertainty in Strategic MAchine Learning
Parinaz Naghized, University of California San Diego, USA
Morning Coffee Break
Shadows of Power: Elite Networks under Authoritarian Purges
Yiqun Tong (Penn State University, United States)
Decentralized Fair Division
Joel Miller (University of Illinois, USA)
Rishi Advani (University of Illinois, USA)
Chris Kanich (University of Illinois, USA)
Lenore Zuck (University of Illinois, USA)
Ian Kash (University of Illinois, USA)
Quantum-Like Nash Equilibrium: A Generalization of Strategic Behavior Beyond Classical Probability
Aayush Gauba (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, United States)
Lunch Break
Explainable Security Investment: A Shapley Value Inspired Metric
S. Destyny Ho (University of Exeter, United Kingdom)
Yunxiao Zhang (University of Exeter, United Kingdom)
Achim D. Brucker (University of Exeter, United Kingdom)
The Complexity of Nash and Stackelberg Equilibrium in Wireless Network Games
Li Zhang (Illinois Institute of Technology, United States)
Sanjiv Kapoor (Illinois Institute of Technology, United States)
Comparison of Market Models for Time/Frequency Prioritized Spectrum Sharing
Qixuan Zai (Northwestern University, United States)
Yaxuan Liu (Northwestern University, United States)
Randall Berry (Northwestern University, United States)
Afternoon Coffee Break
Dual-Channel Closed Loop Supply Chain Competition: A Stackelberg–Nash Approach
Gurkirat Wadhwa (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
Berk-Nash Markov Games: Mathematical Programming Approach
Wrap-up & Daily Closing Announcements
Conference Dinner
Day 2 - 27 March, 2026
Morning Coffee
Invited Talk 2:
LLM-as-a-Prophet: Understanding Predictive Intelligence with Prophet Arena
Invited Talk 3:
A Game-Theoretic Decomposition for Distributed Data Placement over Networks
Rasoul Etsami, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Coffee Break
Custom Keep-Alive Cache Policies
Sushirdeep Narayana (Wesleyan University, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Ian Kash (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Distributed Consensus in Sensor Networks with Symmetric Strategic Node Activation
Sameed Ahmed (IMT – School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy)
Leonardo Badia (University of Padua, Italy)
Giorgio Gnecco (IMT – School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy)
Daniela Selvi (University of Pisa, Italy)
Invited Talk 4:
Title: Effects of Behavioral Decision-Making in Networked Security Games
Shreyas Sundaram, Purdue University, USA
Closing Remarks & Conference End
Best Paper Announcement
