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Inference of Intrinsic Rewards and Fairness in Multi-Agent Systems
Victor Villin, Christos Dimitrakakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07650 https://arxiv.org/…

Inference of Intrinsic Rewards and Fairness in Multi-Agent Systems
From altruism to antagonism, fairness plays a central role in social interactions. But can we truly understand how fair someone is, especially without explicit knowledge of their preferences? We cast this challenge as a multi-agent inverse reinforcement learning problem, explicitly structuring rewards to reflect how agents value the welfare of others. We introduce novel Bayesian strategies, reasoning about the optimality of demonstrations and characterisation of equilibria in general-sum Markov…

The Paradox of Doom: Acknowledging Extinction Risk Reduces the Incentive to Prevent It
Jakub Growiec, Klaus Prettner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04855 https://

The Paradox of Doom: Acknowledging Extinction Risk Reduces the Incentive to Prevent It
We investigate the salience of extinction risk as a source of impatience. Our framework distinguishes between human extinction risk and individual mortality risk while allowing for various degrees of intergenerational altruism. Additionally, we consider the evolutionarily motivated "selfish gene" perspective. We find that the risk of human extinction is an indispensable component of the discount rate, whereas individual mortality risk can be hedged against - partially or fully, depending on the…

Altruism and energy flow in dynamic beehive models
Zachary Nathan, Daniel DiPietro, Olivia J. Chu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17923 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Altruism and energy flow in dynamic beehive models
This work explores the relationship between altruism and the genetic system of arrhenotoky through an evolutionary game theory (EGT)-inspired lens, using a dynamic model of beehive populations consisting of three castes: workers, drones, and the queen. Arrhenotoky is a form of asexual reproduction in which unfertilized eggs become males while fertilized eggs develop into females, leading to unusual patterns of genetic relatedness between family members. This mode of reproduction occurs in insec…

Modeling society with a responsible elite
Yana Tsodikova, Pavel Chebotarev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15877 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Modeling society with a responsible elite
Within the framework of the ViSE (Voting in a Stochastic Environment) model, we examine the dynamics in a society, part of which can be considered an elite. The model allows us to analyze the influence of social attitudes, such as collectivism, individualism, altruism on the well-being of agents. The dynamics is determined by collective decisions and changes in the structure of society, in particular, by the formation of groups of cooperating agents. It is found that the presence of a "responsi…

The Evolution of Altruistic Rationality Provides a Solution to Social Dilemmas via Rational Reciprocity
Mohammad Salahshour, Iain D. Couzin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00858

The Evolution of Altruistic Rationality Provides a Solution to Social Dilemmas via Rational Reciprocity
Decades of scientific inquiry have sought to understand how evolution fosters cooperation, a concept seemingly at odds with the belief that evolution should produce rational, self-interested individuals. Most previous work has focused on the evolution of cooperation among boundedly rational individuals whose decisions are governed by behavioral rules that do not need to be rational. Here, using an evolutionary model, we study how altruism can evolve in a community of rational agents and promote…