Learning in nonatomic games, Part I: Finite action spaces and population games
Abstract
We examine the long-run behavior of a wide range of dynamics for learning in nonatomic games, in both discrete and continuous time. The class of dynamics under consideration includes fictitious play and its regularized variants, the best-reply dynamics (again, possibly regularized), as well as the dynamics of dual averaging / "follow the regularized leader" (which themselves include as special cases the replicator dynamics and Friedman's projection dynamics). Our analysis concerns both the actual trajectory of play and its time-average, and we cover potential and monotone games, as well as games with an evolutionarily stable state (global or otherwise). We focus exclusively on games with finite action spaces; nonatomic games with continuous action spaces are treated in detail in Part II of this paper.
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@article{arxiv.2107.01595,
title = {Learning in nonatomic games, Part I: Finite action spaces and population games},
author = {Saeed Hadikhanloo and Rida Laraki and Panayotis Mertikopoulos and Sylvain Sorin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.01595},
year = {2021}
}
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27 pages