Section 1: Introduction to Multiagent Learning, Fictitious Play, and Rational Learning

Key Learning Points

• Address three issues:
  • the interaction between learning and teaching
  • the settings in which learning takes places and what constitutes learning in those settings
  • the yardsticks by which to measure this or that theory of learning in multiagent systems.
• Discuss learning rules, focusing on repeated two-player games.
• Discuss model-based learning in fictitious play, and rational learning.

Activities

1. Read sections 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3 of the textbook.
2. Watch the following videos on YouTube:
   1. Learning in Repeated Games
   2. Fictitious Play Implementation in NetLogo
3. Discuss the following questions in the discussion forum:
   1. What constitutes learning?
   2. How do we evaluate a prescriptive learning strategy?
   3. What is model-based learning?
   4. What are the similarities and difference between fictitious play and rational learning?