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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

Contemporary applications of machine learning in two-team e-sports and the superior expressivity of multi-agent generative adversarial networks raise important and overlooked theoretical questions regarding optimization in two-team games.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Fivos Kalogiannis , Ioannis Panageas , Emmanouil-Vasileios Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis

We study two-player zero-sum games over infinite-state graphs with boundedness conditions. Our first contribution is about the strategy complexity, i.e the memory required for winning strategies: we prove that over general infinite-state…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Nathanaël Fijalkow

We consider imperfect information stochastic games where we require the players to use pure (i.e. non randomised) strategies. We consider reachability, safety, B\"uchi and co-B\"uchi objectives, and investigate the existence of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Arnaud Carayol , Christof Löding , Olivier Serre

Iterated admissibility is a well-known and important concept in classical game theory, e.g. to determine rational behaviors in multi-player matrix games. As recently shown by Berwanger, this concept can be soundly extended to infinite games…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Romain Brenguier , Jean-François Raskin , Mathieu Sassolas

We study two-player general sum repeated finite games where the rewards of each player are generated from an unknown distribution. Our aim is to find the egalitarian bargaining solution (EBS) for the repeated game, which can lead to much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Aristide Tossou , Christos Dimitrakakis , Jaroslaw Rzepecki , Katja Hofmann

We consider concurrent games played on graphs. At every round of a game, each player simultaneously and independently selects a move; the moves jointly determine the transition to a successor state. Two basic objectives are the safety…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Luca de Alfaro , Thomas A. Henzinger

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in games on graphs within the research community, fueled by their relevance in applications such as economics, politics, and epidemiology. This paper aims to comprehensively detail the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Christian Giannetti

In large-scale games, approximating the opponent's strategy space with a small portfolio of representative strategies is a common and powerful technique. However, the construction of these portfolios often relies on domain-specific…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Karolina Drabent , Ondřej Kubíček , Viliam Lisý

In this paper, we present a method for finding approximate Nash equilibria in a broad class of reachability games. These games are often used to formulate both collision avoidance and goal satisfaction. Our method is computationally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 David Fridovich-Keil , Claire J. Tomlin

This paper studies the complexity of solving two classes of non-cooperative games in a distributed manner in which the players communicate with a set of system nodes over noisy communication channels. The complexity of solving each game…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Ehsan Nekouei , Girish N. Nair , Tansu Alpcan , Robin J. Evans

We study the sample complexity of identifying an approximate equilibrium for two-player zero-sum $n\times 2$ matrix games. That is, in a sequence of repeated game plays, how many rounds must the two players play before reaching an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Arnab Maiti , Kevin Jamieson , Lillian J. Ratliff

This work presents a novel policy iteration algorithm to tackle nonzero-sum stochastic impulse games arising naturally in many applications. Despite the obvious impact of solving such problems, there are no suitable numerical methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-29 René Aïd , Francisco Bernal , Mohamed Mnif , Diego Zabaljauregui , Jorge P. Zubelli

Games on graphs provide a natural and powerful model for reactive systems. In this paper, we consider generalized reachability objectives, defined as conjunctions of reachability objectives. We first prove that deciding the winner in such…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-02-06 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Florian Horn

We consider concurrent games played on graphs. At every round of the game, each player simultaneously and independently selects a move; the moves jointly determine the transition to a successor state. Two basic objectives are the safety…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Luca de Alfaro , Thomas A. Henzinger

Simple stochastic games are turn-based 2.5-player zero-sum graph games with a reachability objective. The problem is to compute the winning probability as well as the optimal strategies of both players. In this paper, we compare the three…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Jan Křetínský , Emanuel Ramneantu , Alexander Slivinskiy , Maximilian Weininger

It is well-known that for infinitely repeated games, there are computable strategies that have best responses, but no computable best responses. These results were originally proved for either specific games (e.g., Prisoner's dilemma), or…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Jakub Dargaj , Jakob Grue Simonsen

We study the problem of deciding the winner of reachability switching games for zero-, one-, and two-player variants. Switching games provide a deterministic analogue of stochastic games. We show that the zero-player case is NL-hard, the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 John Fearnley , Martin Gairing , Matthias Mnich , Rahul Savani

Classic reachability games on graphs are zero-sum games, where the goal of one player, Eve, is to visit a vertex from a given target set, and that of other player, Adam, is to prevent this. Generalised reachability games, studied by…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Sougata Bose , Daniel Hausmann , Soumyajit Paul , Sven Schewe , Tansholpan Zhanabekova

We study games with reachability objectives under energy constraints. We first prove that under strict energy constraints (either only lower-bound constraint or interval constraint), those games are LOGSPACE-equivalent to energy games with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Loïc Hélouët , Nicolas Markey , Ritam Raha