AI agents in Algorithmic Electricity Markets: On the Emergence of Tacit Collusion

arXiv:2608.26896 · cs.AI, cs.GT, cs.MA, cs.SY, eess.SY · Submitted 2026-08-27 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.GT, cs.MA, cs.SY, eess.SY

Submitted: 2026-08-27

Updated: 2026-08-27

Terminology

• Ablation — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Reinforcement Learning — 8× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• AI Agents — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Iterative Best Response — 4× in this paper
• Actor — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adaptation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Deep Reinforcement Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning — 3× in this paper
• Action Space — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agent-based modeling — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Locational Marginal Price — 2× in this paper
• Q-learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Agent-Based Simulation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Best Response Deviation Gain — 1× in this paper
• Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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