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Nonzero-sum Adversarial Hypothesis Testing Games

Computer Science and Game Theory 2019-10-01 v1 Machine Learning Statistics Theory Applications Machine Learning Statistics Theory

Abstract

We study nonzero-sum hypothesis testing games that arise in the context of adversarial classification, in both the Bayesian as well as the Neyman-Pearson frameworks. We first show that these games admit mixed strategy Nash equilibria, and then we examine some interesting concentration phenomena of these equilibria. Our main results are on the exponential rates of convergence of classification errors at equilibrium, which are analogous to the well-known Chernoff-Stein lemma and Chernoff information that describe the error exponents in the classical binary hypothesis testing problem, but with parameters derived from the adversarial model. The results are validated through numerical experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1909.13031,
  title  = {Nonzero-sum Adversarial Hypothesis Testing Games},
  author = {Sarath Yasodharan and Patrick Loiseau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.13031},
  year   = {2019}
}

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23 pages, 14 figures. Accepted for publication in the 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019), Vancouver, Canada

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