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Communication complexity of approximate Nash equilibria

Computer Science and Game Theory 2016-09-14 v2 Computational Complexity

Abstract

For a constant ϵ\epsilon, we prove a poly(N) lower bound on the (randomized) communication complexity of ϵ\epsilon-Nash equilibrium in two-player NxN games. For n-player binary-action games we prove an exp(n) lower bound for the (randomized) communication complexity of (ϵ,ϵ)(\epsilon,\epsilon)-weak approximate Nash equilibrium, which is a profile of mixed actions such that at least (1ϵ)(1-\epsilon)-fraction of the players are ϵ\epsilon-best replying.

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@article{arxiv.1608.06580,
  title  = {Communication complexity of approximate Nash equilibria},
  author = {Yakov Babichenko and Aviad Rubinstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.06580},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Second revision extends the lower bounds to randomized communication

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