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In the game theory literature, there appears to be little research on equilibrium selection for normal-form games with an infinite strategy space and discontinuous utility functions. Moreover, many existing selection methods are not…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Yuke Li , A. Stephen Morse

We use matrix iteration theory to characterize acceleration in smooth games. We define the spectral shape of a family of games as the set containing all eigenvalues of the Jacobians of standard gradient dynamics in the family. Shapes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Waïss Azizian , Damien Scieur , Ioannis Mitliagkas , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Gauthier Gidel

A solution concept on a class of transferable utility coalitional games is a multifunction satisfying given criteria of economic rationality. Every solution associates a set of payoff allocations with a coalitional game. This general…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Tomáš Kroupa

We give an algorithm for solving unique games (UG) instances whenever low-degree sum-of-squares proofs certify good bounds on the small-set-expansion of the underlying constraint graph via a hypercontractive inequality. Our algorithm is in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Mitali Bafna , Boaz Barak , Pravesh Kothari , Tselil Schramm , David Steurer

Parity games are abstract infinite-round games that take an important role in formal verification. In the basic setting, these games are two-player, turn-based, and played under perfect information on directed graphs, whose nodes are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Antonio Di Stasio , Aniello Murano , Giuseppe Perelli , Moshe Y. Vardi

A combinatorial simplex algorithm is an instance of the simplex method in which the pivoting depends on combinatorial data only. We show that any algorithm of this kind admits a tropical analogue which can be used to solve mean payoff…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Xavier Allamigeon , Pascal Benchimol , Stéphane Gaubert , Michael Joswig

Computations with Barvinok's short rational generating functions are traditionally being performed in the dual space, to avoid the combinatorial complexity of inclusion--exclusion formulas for the intersecting proper faces of cones. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Matthias Köppe , Sven Verdoolaege

Hybrid games are games played on a finite graph endowed with real variables which may model behaviors of discrete controllers of continuous systems. The synthesis problem for hybrid games is decidable for classical objectives (like LTL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Catalin Dima , Mariem Hammami , Youssouf Oualhadj , Régine Laleau

We focus on the design of algorithms for finding equilibria in 2-player zero-sum games. Although it is well known that such problems can be solved by a single linear program, there has been a surge of interest in recent years for simpler…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Michail Fasoulakis , Evangelos Markakis , Giorgos Roussakis , Christodoulos Santorinaios

In this article, we generalize Unbounded Minimax, the state-of-the-art search algorithm for zero sums two-player games with perfect information to the framework of multiplayer games with perfect information. We experimentally show that this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Quentin Cohen-Solal

In this paper, we want to investigate some kind of Dynkin's game under ambiguity which is represented by Backward Stochastic Differential Equation (shortly BSDE) with standard generator function g(t, y, z). Under regular assumptions, a pair…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-07-19 Helin Wu

Continuous games are multiplayer games in which strategy sets are compact and utility functions are continuous. These games typically have a highly complicated structure of Nash equilibria, and numerical methods for the equilibrium…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 T. Kroupa , T. Votroubek

Negotiations, a model of concurrency with multi party negotiation as primitive, have been recently introduced by J. Desel and J. Esparza. We initiate the study of games for this model. We study coalition problems: can a given coalition of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Philipp Hoffmann

A bimatrix game $(A,B)$ is called a game of rank $k$ if the rank of the matrix $A+B$ is at most $k$. We consider the problem of enumerating the Nash equilibria in (non-degenerate) games of rank 1. In particular, we show that even for games…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-09-11 Thorsten Theobald

In this paper, we consider a zero-sum undiscounted stochastic game which has finite state space and finitely many pure actions. Also, we assume the transition probability of the undiscounted stochastic game is controlled by one player and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-23 Purba Das , T. Parthasarathy , G Ravindran

Bayesian regression games are a special class of two-player general-sum Bayesian games in which the learner is partially informed about the adversary's objective through a Bayesian prior. This formulation captures the uncertainty in regard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Wenshuo Guo , Michael I. Jordan , Tianyi Lin

The minimax theorem for zero-sum games is easily proved from the strong duality theorem of linear programming. For the converse direction, the standard proof by Dantzig (1951) is known to be incomplete. We explain and combine classical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Bernhard von Stengel

Absolute combinatorial game theory was recently developed as a unifying tool for constructive/local game comparison (Larsson et al. 2018). The theory concerns {\em parental universes} of combinatorial games; standard closure properties are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-10 U. Larsson , R. J. Nowakowski , C. P. Santos

Using semi-tensor product of matrices, the structures of several kinds of symmetric games are investigated via the linear representation of symmetric group in the structure vector of games as its representation space. First of all, the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Daizhan Cheng , Ting Liu

In this paper, we settle the sampling complexity of solving discounted two-player turn-based zero-sum stochastic games up to polylogarithmic factors. Given a stochastic game with discount factor $\gamma\in(0,1)$ we provide an algorithm that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Aaron Sidford , Mengdi Wang , Lin F. Yang , Yinyu Ye