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In this work, we study the sample complexity of obtaining a Nash equilibrium (NE) estimate in two-player zero-sum matrix games with noisy feedback. Specifically, we propose a novel algorithm that repeatedly solves linear programs (LPs) to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Jiashuo Jiang , Mengxiao Zhang

We consider an algorithmic framework for two-player non-zero-sum semidefinite games, where each player's strategy is a positive semidefinite matrix with trace one. We formulate the computation of Nash equilibria in such games as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Constantin Ickstadt , Thorsten Theobald , Elias Tsigaridas , Antonios Varvitsiotis

Zero-sum games arise in a wide variety of problems, including robust optimization and adversarial learning. However, algorithms deployed for finding a local Nash equilibrium in these games often converge to non-Nash stationary points. This…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kushagra Gupta , Xinjie Liu , Ross Allen , Ufuk Topcu , David Fridovich-Keil

Nash equilibrium is a central solution concept for reasoning about self-interested agents. We address the problem of synthesizing Nash equilibria in two-player deterministic games on graphs, where players have private, partially-ordered…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Caleb Probine , Abhishek Kulkarni , Ufuk Topcu

We study pure Nash equilibria in games on graphs with an imperfect monitoring based on a public signal. In such games, deviations and players responsible for those deviations can be hard to detect and track. We propose a generic epistemic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Patricia Bouyer

Many efficient algorithms have been designed to recover Nash equilibria of various classes of finite games. Special classes of continuous games with infinite strategy spaces, such as polynomial games, can be solved by semidefinite…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Lukáš Adam , Rostislav Horčík , Tomáš Kasl , Tomáš Kroupa

We prove that finding an epsilon-Nash equilibrium in a succinctly representable game with many players is PPAD-hard for constant epsilon. Our proof uses succinct games, i.e. games whose payoff function is represented by a circuit. Our…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Aviad Rubinstein

The works of (Daskalakis et al., 2009, 2022; Jin et al., 2022; Deng et al., 2023) indicate that computing Nash equilibria in multi-player Markov games is a computationally hard task. This fact raises the question of whether or not…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Fivos Kalogiannis , Ioannis Panageas

We consider a gossip approach for finding a Nash equilibrium in a distributed multi-player network game. We extend previous results on Nash equilibrium seeking to the case when the players' cost functions may be affected by the actions of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Farzad Salehisadaghiani , Lacra Pavel

In Feinstein and Rudloff (2023), it was shown that the set of Nash equilibria for any non-cooperative $N$ player game coincides with the set of Pareto optimal points of a certain vector optimization problem with non-convex ordering cone. To…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Zachary Feinstein , Niklas Hey , Birgit Rudloff

We show that the problem of finding an \epsilon-approximate Nash equilibrium of an n by n two-person games can be reduced to the computation of an (\epsilon/n)^2-approximate market equilibrium of a Leontief economy. Together with a recent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Li-Sha Huang , Shang-Hua Teng

We consider the computation of an equilibrium of a stochastic Nash equilibrium problem, where the player objectives are assumed to be $L_0$-Lipschitz continuous and convex given rival decisions with convex and closed player-specific…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Luke Marrinan , Farzad Yousefian , Uday V. Shanbhag

Nash equilibria and Pareto optimality are two distinct concepts when dealing with multiple criteria. It is well known that the two concepts do not coincide. However, in this work we show that it is possible to characterize the set of all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-12 Zachary Feinstein , Birgit Rudloff

We study techniques to incentivize self-interested agents to form socially desirable solutions in scenarios where they benefit from mutual coordination. Towards this end, we consider coordination games where agents have different intrinsic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Elliot Anshelevich , Shreyas Sekar

Approximating a Nash equilibrium is currently the best performing approach for creating poker-playing programs. While for the simplest variants of the game, it is possible to evaluate the quality of the approximation by computing the value…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Viliam Lisy , Michael Bowling

The distributed computation of a Nash equilibrium in aggregative games is gaining increased traction in recent years. Of particular interest is the mediator-free scenario where individual players only access or observe the decisions of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Yongqiang Wang , Angelia Nedich

We investigate the problem of equilibrium computation for "large" $n$-player games. Large games have a Lipschitz-type property that no single player's utility is greatly affected by any other individual player's actions. In this paper, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Paul W. Goldberg , Francisco J. Marmolejo-Cossío , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Recent advances at the intersection of dense large graph limits and mean field games have begun to enable the scalable analysis of a broad class of dynamical sequential games with large numbers of agents. So far, results have been largely…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Kai Cui , Heinz Koeppl

Computing Nash equilibria of zero-sum games in classical and quantum settings is extensively studied. For general-sum games, computing Nash equilibria is PPAD-hard and the computing of a more general concept called correlated equilibria has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Tongyang Li , Xinzhao Wang , Yexin Zhang

We provide the first fully polynomial time approximation scheme (FPTAS) for computing an approximate mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium in tree-structured graphical multi-hypermatrix games (GMhGs). GMhGs are generalizations of normal-form…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Luis E. Ortiz , Mohammad T. Irfan