I am a PhD student at the Sigma Lab@UChicago , advised by Prof. Haifeng Xu . Prior to UChicago, I received my BA/MS degrees in CS from UVA in 2019, where I worked on recommendation algorithms with Prof. Hongning Wang .
My current research lies at the interface between game theory, learning theory and optimization, with the primary focus on modeling and solving multi-agent decision-making problems under complex, unknown environment. More broadly, I aim to advance the design principles and approaches of intelligent systems towards strategic alignment — a concept centered on aligning the interests of all stakeholders to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes .
Towards this end, I am interested in developing practical techniques to 1) build incentive-aware AI agents with strategic intelligence and rationalizable behaviors ; 2) align the economic incentives of users, model developers and data providers for more sustainable AI ecosystems .
I am on the academic job market 2024-2025.
My CV can be found here . Let’s connect and chat!
(α-β) indicates alphabetical author order, Ⓡ indicates randomized author order, * indicates equal contribution
Grounded Persuasive Language Generation for Automated Marketing
Jibang Wu , Chenghao Yang, Simon Mahns, Chaoqi Wang, Hao Zhu, Fei Fang, and Haifeng Xu
Working Paper
Contractual Reinforcement Learning: Pulling Arms with Invisible Hands
Jibang Wu , Siyu Chen, Mengdi Wang, Huazheng Wang, and Haifeng Xu
Working Paper
@article { wu2024contractual ,
title = {Contractual Reinforcement Learning: Pulling Arms with Invisible Hands} ,
author = {Wu, Jibang and Chen, Siyu and Wang, Mengdi and Wang, Huazheng and Xu, Haifeng} ,
journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.01458} ,
year = {2024} ,
}
A Truth Serum for Eliciting Self-Evaluations in Scientific Reviews
Ⓡ Jibang Wu , Haifeng Xu, Yifan Guo, and Weijie Su
Working Paper
@article { wu2023isotonic ,
title = {A Truth Serum for Eliciting Self-Evaluations in Scientific Reviews} ,
author = {Wu, Jibang and Xu, Haifeng and Guo, Yifan and Su, Weijie} ,
}
Auctioning with Strategically Reticent Bidders
Jibang Wu , Ashwinkumar Badanidiyuru, and Haifeng Xu
WINE 2024
@inproceedings { wu2021auctioning ,
title = {Auctioning with Strategically Reticent Bidders} ,
author = {Wu, Jibang and Badanidiyuru, Ashwinkumar and Xu, Haifeng} ,
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Web and Internet Economics} ,
year = {2024} ,
series = {WINE '24} ,
}
Generalized Principal-Agency: Contracts, Information, Games and Beyond
(α-β) Jiarui Gan, Minbiao Han, Jibang Wu , and Haifeng Xu
WINE 2024
@inproceedings { gan2022optimal ,
title = {Generalized Principal-Agency: Contracts, Information, Games and Beyond} ,
author = {Gan, Jiarui and Han, Minbiao and Wu, Jibang and Xu, Haifeng} ,
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Web and Internet Economics} ,
year = {2024} ,
series = {WINE '24} ,
}
Robust Stackelberg Equilibria
(α-β) Jiarui Gan, Minbiao Han, Jibang Wu , and Haifeng Xu
EC 2023
@inproceedings { 10.1145/3580507.3597680 ,
author = {Gan, Jiarui and Han, Minbiao and Wu, Jibang and Xu, Haifeng} ,
title = {Robust Stackelberg Equilibria} ,
year = {2023} ,
isbn = {9798400701047} ,
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery} ,
address = {New York, NY, USA} ,
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3580507.3597680} ,
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation} ,
pages = {735} ,
numpages = {1} ,
location = {London, United Kingdom} ,
series = {EC '23} ,
}
Learning to Incentivize Information Acquisition: Proper Scoring Rules Meet Principal-Agent Model
Siyu Chen, Jibang Wu , Yifan Wu, and Zhuoran Yang
ICML 2023
@article { chen2023learning ,
title = {Learning to Incentivize Information Acquisition: Proper Scoring Rules Meet Principal-Agent Model} ,
author = {Chen, Siyu and Wu, Jibang and Wu, Yifan and Yang, Zhuoran} ,
journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.08613} ,
year = {2023} ,
}
Inverse Game Theory for Stackelberg Games: the Blessing of Bounded Rationality
Jibang Wu , Weiran Shen, Fei Fang, and Haifeng Xu
NeurIPS 2022
@article { wu2022inverse ,
title = {Inverse Game Theory for Stackelberg Games: the Blessing of Bounded Rationality} ,
author = {Wu, Jibang and Shen, Weiran and Fang, Fei and Xu, Haifeng} ,
journal = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems} ,
volume = {35} ,
pages = {32186--32198} ,
year = {2022} ,
}
Sequential Information Design: Markov Persuasion Process and Its Efficient Reinforcement Learning
Jibang Wu , Zixuan Zhang, Zhe Feng, Zhaoran Wang, Zhuoran Yang, Michael I. Jordan, and Haifeng Xu
EC 2022
@inproceedings { 10.1145/3490486.3538313 ,
author = {Wu, Jibang and Zhang, Zixuan and Feng, Zhe and Wang, Zhaoran and Yang, Zhuoran and Jordan, Michael I. and Xu, Haifeng} ,
title = {Sequential Information Design: Markov Persuasion Process and Its Efficient Reinforcement Learning} ,
year = {2022} ,
isbn = {9781450391504} ,
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery} ,
address = {New York, NY, USA} ,
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3490486.3538313} ,
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation} ,
pages = {471–472} ,
numpages = {2} ,
location = {Boulder, CO, USA} ,
series = {EC '22} ,
}
Multi-Agent Learning for Iterative Dominance Elimination: Formal Barriers and New Algorithms
Jibang Wu , Haifeng Xu, and Fan Yao
COLT 2022
@inproceedings { wu2021multi ,
title = {Multi-Agent Learning for Iterative Dominance Elimination: Formal Barriers and New Algorithms} ,
author = {Wu, Jibang and Xu, Haifeng and Yao, Fan} ,
booktitle = {Proceedings of Thirty Fifth Conference on Learning Theory} ,
pages = {543--543} ,
year = {2022} ,
editor = {Loh, Po-Ling and Raginsky, Maxim} ,
volume = {178} ,
series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research} ,
month = {02--05 Jul} ,
publisher = {PMLR} ,
}
Least square calibration for peer reviews
Sijun Tan*, Jibang Wu* , Xiaohui Bei, and Haifeng Xu
NeurIPS 2021
@article { tan2021least ,
title = {Least square calibration for peer reviews} ,
author = {Tan*, Sijun and Wu*, Jibang and Bei, Xiaohui and Xu, Haifeng} ,
journal = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems} ,
volume = {34} ,
pages = {27069--27080} ,
year = {2021} ,
}
Category-aware collaborative sequential recommendation
Renqin Cai, Jibang Wu , Aidan San, Chong Wang, and Hongning Wang
SIGIR 2021
@inproceedings { cai2021category ,
title = {Category-aware collaborative sequential recommendation} ,
author = {Cai, Renqin and Wu, Jibang and San, Aidan and Wang, Chong and Wang, Hongning} ,
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 44th international ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in information retrieval} ,
pages = {388--397} ,
year = {2021} ,
status = {published} ,
}
Déjà vu: A contextualized temporal attention mechanism for sequential recommendation
Jibang Wu , Renqin Cai, and Hongning Wang
WWW 2020
@inproceedings { wu2020deja ,
title = {D{\'e}j{\`a} vu: A contextualized temporal attention mechanism for sequential recommendation} ,
author = {Wu, Jibang and Cai, Renqin and Wang, Hongning} ,
booktitle = {Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020} ,
pages = {2199--2209} ,
year = {2020} ,
}