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TheMinority Game (MG) has become a paradigm to probe complex social and economical phenomena where adaptive agents compete for a limited resource, and it finds applications in statistical and nonlinear physics as well. In the traditional MG…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-04-16 Zi-Gang Huang , Ji-Qiang Zhang , Jia-Qi Dong , Liang Huang , Ying-Cheng Lai

We present a dynamical theory of a multi-agent market game, the so-called Minority Game (MG), based on crowds and anticrowds. The time-averaged version of the dynamical equations provides a quantitatively accurate, yet intuitively simple,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Hart , P. Jefferies , P. M. Hui , N. F. Johnson

This paper gives a critical account of the minority game literature. The minority game is a simple congestion game: players need to choose between two options, and those who have selected the option chosen by the minority win. The learning…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2008-12-02 Willemien Kets

We discuss a modification of the Evolutionary Minority Game (EMG) in which agents are placed in the nodes of a regular or a random graph. A neighborhood for each agent can thus be defined and a modification of the usual relaxation dynamics…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Burgos , Horacio Ceva , R. P. J. Perazzo

A Lempel-Ziv complexity measure is introduced into the theory of a Minority Game (MG) in order to capture some features that volatility, one of the central quantities in this model of interacting agents, is not able to. Extracted solely…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Milan Rajkovic , Zoran Mihailovic

The Minority Game is a simple yet highly non-trivial agent-based model for a complex adaptive system. Despite its importance, a quantitative explanation of the game's fluctuations which applies over the entire parameter range of interest…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Hart , P. Jefferies , N. F. Johnson , P. M. Hui

The mean field games (MFG) paradigm was introduced to provide tractable approximations of games involving very large populations. The theory typically rests on two key assumptions: homogeneity, meaning that all players share the same…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Mathieu Laurière

We study a model of a competing population of N adaptive agents, with similar capabilities, repeatedly deciding whether to attend a bar with an arbitrary cutoff L. Decisions are based upon past outcomes. The agents are only told whether the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 N. F. Johnson , P. M. Hui , Dafang Zheng , C. W. Tai

We study the continuous time dynamics of the Thermal Minority Game. We find that the dynamical equations of the model reduce to a set of stochastic differential equations for an interacting disordered system with non-trivial random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Juan P. Garrahan , Esteban Moro , David Sherrington

We address the question of market efficiency using the Minority Game (MG) model. First we show that removing unrealistic features of the MG leads to models which reproduce a scaling behavior close to what is observed in real markets. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-02 D. Challet , A. Chessa , M. Marsili , Y. -C. Zhang

This essay gives a self-contained introduction to quantum game theory, and is primarily oriented to economists with little or no acquaintance with quantum mechanics. It assumes little more than a basic knowledge of vector algebra. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Orlin Grabbe

In this paper I give a brief introduction to a family of simple but non-trivial models designed to increase our understanding of collective processes in markets, the so-called Minority Games, and their non-equilibrium statistical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-12-02 A. C. C. Coolen

The Full Strategy Minority Game (FSMG) is an instance of the Minority Game (MG) which includes a single copy of every potential agent. In this work, we explicitly solve the FSMG thanks to certain symmetries of this game. Furthermore, by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-27 Gabriel Acosta , Inés Caridi , Sebastián Guala , Javier Marenco

Two intimately related new classes of games are introduced and studied: entropy games (EGs) and matrix multiplication games (MMGs). An EG is played on a finite arena by two-and-a-half players: Despot, Tribune and the non-deterministic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Eugene Asarin , Julien Cervelle , Aldric Degorre , Catalin Dima , Florian Horn , Victor Kozyakin

The Parallel Minority Game (PMG) refers to a set of Minority Games (MG), played in parallel, where each agent only has two choices to pick from, but each choice can host agents of many kind i.e., their other alternative can be from any…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-07 Soumyajyoti Biswas , Jnanesh Yaramati , Kavya Bellamkonda , Krishna Rastogi , Devesh Chaudhary

We show analytically how the fluctuations (i.e. standard deviation) in the Minority Game (MG) can be made to decrease below the random coin-toss limit if the agents use more general behavioral strategies. This suppression of the standard…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Hart , P. Jefferies , N. F. Johnson , P. M. Hui

We introduce the concept of Conversion/Preference Games, or CP games for short. CP games generalize the standard notion of strategic games. First we exemplify the use of CP games. Second we formally introduce and define the CP-games…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2008-11-04 Stéphane Le Roux , Pierre Lescanne , René Vestergaard

In this paper we study the continuum time dynamics of a stock in a market where agents behavior is modeled by a Minority Game and a Grand Canonical Minority Game. The dynamics derived is a generalized geometric Brownian motion; from the…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2013-05-17 Matteo Ortisi , Valerio Zuccolo

We use the Minority Game as a testing frame for the problem of the emergence of diversity in socio-economic systems. For the MG with heterogeneous impacts, we show that the direct generalization of the usual agents' profit does not fit some…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2014-01-20 Miroslav Pištěk , Frantisek Slanina

The Minority Game (MG) behaves as a stochastically perturbed deterministic system due to the coin-toss invoked to resolve tied strategies. Averaging over this stochasticity yields a description of the MG's deterministic dynamics via mapping…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Jefferies , M. L. Hart , N. F. Johnson