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Every ML system you deploy operates in a world of strategic agents. Users game your classifiers. Annotators shape your reward models. Federated learning participants free-ride on others' computation. And the tools you already use daily — SHAP, GANs, RLHF — are built on game-theoretic foundations you may not recognize.

This book bridges the gap between game theory and ML engineering. Across 10 chapters, you'll learn to diagnose GAN training failures through Nash equilibrium theory, understand why SHAP values are Shapley values from cooperative game theory, design incentive-compatible mechanisms for data markets and federated learning, build classifiers that survive contact with strategic users, and see LLM alignment as the multi-player game it is.

Every chapter includes a concrete diagnostic, framework, or checklist you can apply on Monday morning.

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