I’m a Postdoctoral Research Associate at The Alan Turing Institute and an Associate Member of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, where I’m advised by Marta Kwiatkowska and Lukasz Szpruch. From 2021 to 2024, I completed my PhD at the University of Oslo supervised by Christos Dimitrakakis, and previously studied Mathematics (BSc, MSc).

My research interests are in reinforcement learning and related topics. At the moment, I’m especially interested in problems at the intersection of machine learning and algorithmic game theory, such as strategic manipulation and approximate mechanism design.

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Selected Publications and Preprints

  • Strategic Linear Contextual Bandits [pdf]
    Thomas Kleine Buening, Aadirupa Saha, Christos Dimitrakakis, Haifeng Xu
    Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024)

  • Environment Design for Inverse Reinforcement Learning [pdf]
    Thomas Kleine Buening$^\star$, Victor Villin$^\star$, Christos Dimitrakakis
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024); Oral Presentation

  • Bandits Meet Mechanism Design to Combat Clickbait in Online Recommendation [pdf]
    Thomas Kleine Buening, Aadirupa Saha, Christos Dimitrakakis, Haifeng Xu
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024); Spotlight Presentation

You can reach me at tbuen***@turing.ac.uk or thomas.kleinebuen***@cs.ox.ac.uk.