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In this paper, zero-sum mean-field type games (ZSMFTG) with linear dynamics and quadratic utility are studied under infinite-horizon discounted utility function. ZSMFTG are a class of games in which two decision makers whose utilities sum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-07 René Carmona , Kenza Hamidouche , Mathieu Laurière , Zongjun Tan

In this paper, we propose a new efficient algorithm to compute the value function for zero-sum stopping games featuring two players with opposing interests. This can be seen as a game version of the ''forward algorithm'' for (one-player)…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Nhat-Thang Le

We investigate zero-sum turn-based two-player stochastic games in which the objective of one player is to maximize the amount of rewards obtained during a play, while the other aims at minimizing it. We focus on games in which the minimizer…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Pablo F. Castro , Pedro R. D'Argenio , Luciano Putruele , Ramiro Demasi

We examine the problem of the existence of optimal deterministic stationary strategiesintwo-players antagonistic (zero-sum) perfect information stochastic games with finitely many states and actions.We show that the existenceof such…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Hugo Gimbert , Wieslaw Zielonka

We investigate a two-player zero-sum stochastic differential game in which the players have an asymmetric information on the random payoff. We prove that the game has a value and characterize this value in terms of dual solutions of some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Catherine Rainer

For a zero-sum stochastic game which does not satisfy the Isaacs condition, we provide a value function representation for an Isaacs-type equation whose Hamiltonian lies in between the lower and upper Hamiltonians, as a convex combination…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Daniel Hernández-Hernández , Mihai Sîrbu

Zero-sum stochastic games generalize the notion of Markov Decision Processes (i.e. controlled Markov chains, or stochastic dynamic programming) to the 2-player competitive case : two players jointly control the evolution of a state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-17 Jérôme Renault

We introduce a simple extensive-form algorithm for finding equilibria of two-player, zero-sum games. The algorithm is realization equivalent to a generalized form of Fictitious Play. We compare its performance to that of a similar…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Tim P. Schulze

This paper is concerned with a new type of differential game problems of forwardbackward stochastic systems. There are three distinguishing features: Firstly, our game systems are forward-backward doubly stochastic differential equations,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-09 Eddie C. M. Hui , Hua Xiao

Two-player graph games have found numerous applications, most notably in the synthesis of reactive systems from temporal specifications, but also in verification. The relevance of infinite-state systems in these areas has lead to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Philippe Heim , Rayna Dimitrova

We introduce a contractive abstract dynamic programming framework and related policy iteration algorithms, specifically designed for sequential zero-sum games and minimax problems with a general structure. Aside from greater generality, the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Dimitri Bertsekas

We introduce two algorithms based on a policy iteration method to numerically solve time-dependent Mean Field Game systems of partial differential equations with non-separable Hamiltonians. We prove the convergence of such algorithms in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Mathieu Laurière , Jiahao Song , Qing Tang

This paper proposes a new method for finding closed-loop saddle points in zero-sum linear-quadratic stochastic differential games by decoupling their inherent structure. Specifically, we develop a nested iterative scheme that constructs a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Yiyuan Wang

Finding equilibrium points in continuous minmax games has become a key problem within machine learning, in part due to its connection to the training of generative adversarial networks and reinforcement learning. Because of existence and…

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A zero-sum two-person Perfect Information Semi-Markov game (PISMG) under limiting ratio average payoff has a value and both the maximiser and the minimiser have optimal pure semi-stationary strategies. We arrive at the result by first…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-15 S. Sinha , K. G. Bakshi

We study a zero-sum stochastic differential switching game in infinite horizon. We prove the existence of the value of the game and characterize it as the unique viscosity solution of the associated system of quasi-variational inequalities…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-04 Brahim El Asri , Sehail Mazid

This paper provides sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions for two-person zero-sum games with inf/sup-compact payoff functions and with possibly noncompact decision sets for both players. Payoff functions may be unbounded, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Eugene A. Feinberg , Pavlo O. Kasyanov , Michael Z. Zgurovsky

We consider a two-player zero-sum stochastic differential game in which one of the players has a private information on the game. Both players observe each other, so that the non-informed player can try to guess his missing information. Our…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-06-15 Christine Grün

We introduce and study a class of infinite-horizon non-zero-sum non-cooperative stochastic games with infinitely many interacting agents using ideas of statistical mechanics. First we show, in the general case of asymmetric interactions,…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-08-16 Emilio De Santis , Carlo Marinelli