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The stable marriage and stable roommates problems have been extensively studied due to their high applicability in various real-world scenarios. However, it might happen that no stable solution exists, or stable solutions do not meet…

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Negotiations, a model of concurrency with multi party negotiation as primitive, have been recently introduced in arXiv:1307.2145, arXiv:1403.4958. We initiate the study of games for this model. We study coalition problems: can a given…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Javier Esparza , Philipp Hoffmann

In this paper, we study the average case complexity of the Unique Games problem. We propose a natural semi-random model, in which a unique game instance is generated in several steps. First an adversary selects a completely satisfiable…

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In this paper, we consider two-player zero-sum matrix and stochastic games and develop learning dynamics that are payoff-based, convergent, rational, and symmetric between the two players. Specifically, the learning dynamics for matrix…

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We show that the problem of finding an {\epsilon}-approximate Nash equilibrium in an anonymous game with seven pure strategies is complete in PPAD, when the approximation parameter {\epsilon} is exponentially small in the number of players.

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Xi Chen , David Durfee , Anthi Orfanou

In order to coordinate players in a game must first identify a target pattern of behaviour. In this paper we investigate the difficulty of identifying prominent outcomes in two kinds of binary action coordination problems in social…

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An upper dominating set in a graph is a minimal (with respect to set inclusion) dominating set of maximum cardinality. The problem of finding an upper dominating set is generally NP-hard. We study the complexity of this problem in classes…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Hassan AbouEisha , Shahid Hussain , Vadim Lozin , Jérôme Monnot , Bernard Ries , Viktor Zamaraev

The three domatic number problem asks whether a given undirected graph can be partitioned into at least three dominating sets, i.e., sets whose closed neighborhood equals the vertex set of the graph. Since this problem is NP-complete, no…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tobias Riege , Jörg Rothe

In the Binary Networked Public Goods game, every player needs to decide if she participates in a public project whose utility is shared equally by the community. We study the problem of deciding if there exists a pure strategy Nash…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Arnab Maiti , Palash Dey

We consider the matrix completion problem where the aim is to esti-mate a large data matrix for which only a relatively small random subset of its entries is observed. Quite popular approaches to matrix completion problem are iterative…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Olga Klopp

We consider the problem of matrix completion on an $n \times m$ matrix. We introduce the problem of Interpretable Matrix Completion that aims to provide meaningful insights for the low-rank matrix using side information. We show that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Dimitris Bertsimas , Michael Lingzhi Li

Coalition formation is a key problem in automated negotiation among self-interested agents, and other multiagent applications. A coalition of agents can sometimes accomplish things that the individual agents cannot, or can do things more…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Vincent Conitzer , Tuomas Sandholm

Many emerging applications - such as adversarial training, AI alignment, and robust optimization - can be framed as zero-sum games between neural nets, with von Neumann-Nash equilibria (NE) capturing the desirable system behavior. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Deep Patel , Emmanouil-Vasileios Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis

We study the problem of solving matrix games of the form $\min_{\mathbf{p}\in\Delta}\max_{\mathbf{w}\in\mathcal{W}}\mathbf{p}^{\top}A\mathbf{w}$, where $A$ is a matrix and $\Delta$ is the probability simplex. This problem encapsulates…

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A dominating set D in a graph G is a subset of its vertices such that every vertex of the graph which does not belong to set D is adjacent to at least one vertex from set D. A set of vertices of graph G is a global dominating set if it is a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Ernesto Parra Inza , Nodari Vakhania , Jose M. Sigarreta Almira , Frank A. Hernández Mira

In classical game theory, optimal strategies are determined for games with complete information; this requires knowledge of the opponent's goals. We analyze games when a player is mistaken about their opponents goals. For definitiveness, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Dan Zwillinger , Paul San Clemente

We consider the computational complexity of pure Nash equilibria in graphical games. It is known that the problem is NP-complete in general, but tractable (i.e., in P) for special classes of graphs such as those with bounded treewidth. It…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-09 Albert Xin Jiang , MohammadAli Safari

A team consisting of an unknown number of mobile agents, starting from different nodes of an unknown network, possibly at different times, have to meet at the same node. Agents are anonymous (identical), execute the same deterministic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Yoann Dieudonné , Andrzej Pelc

The minimum dominating set problem asks for a dominating set with minimum size. First, we determine some vertices contained in the minimum dominating set of a graph. By applying a particular scheme, we ensure that the resulting graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Misa Nakanishi

In a graph G, a k-attack A is any set of at most k vertices and l-defense D is a set of at most l vertices. We say that defense D counters attack A if each a in A can be matched to a distinct defender d in D with a equal to d or a adjacent…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Steven Chaplick , Grzegorz Gutowski , Tomasz Krawczyk