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We introduce a way to compare actions in decision problems. One action is safer than another if the set of beliefs at which the decision-maker prefers the safer action expands as the decision-maker becomes more risk averse. We provide a…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-02-19 Marilyn Pease , Mark Whitmeyer

We propose a greedy algorithm to select $N$ important features among $P$ input features for a non-linear prediction problem. The features are selected one by one sequentially, in an iterative loss minimization procedure. We use neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sandipan Das , Alireza M. Javid , Prakash Borpatra Gohain , Yonina C. Eldar , Saikat Chatterjee

Parity games are simple infinite games played on finite graphs with a winning condition that is expressive enough to capture nested least and greatest fixpoints. Through their tight relationship to the modal mu-calculus, they are used in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Tom van Dijk

We consider parallel, or low adaptivity, algorithms for submodular function maximization. This line of work was recently initiated by Balkanski and Singer and has already led to several interesting results on the cardinality constraint and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Chandra Chekuri , Kent Quanrud

We consider learning a convex combination of basis models, and present some new theoretical and empirical results that demonstrate the effectiveness of a greedy approach. Theoretically, we first consider whether we can use linear, instead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Tan Nguyen , Nan Ye , Peter L. Bartlett

The General Lotto game is a popular variant of the famous Colonel Blotto game, in which two opposing players allocate limited resources over many battlefields. In this paper, we consider incomplete and asymmetric information formulations…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Keith Paarporn , Rahul Chandan , Mahnoosh Alizadeh , Jason R. Marden

This paper makes a small step towards a non-stochastic version of superhedging duality relations in the case of one traded security with a continuous price path. Namely, we prove the coincidence of game-theoretic and measure-theoretic…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-08-10 Vladimir Vovk

We study $n$-dimensional contests between two players with heterogeneous effort costs, where each dimension (battle) is modeled as a Tullock contest. Prize-allocation rules are identity-independent, budget-balanced, and weakly increasing in…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-03-31 Siyuan Fan , Zhonghong Kuang , Jingfeng Lu

Two-player win/lose games of infinite duration are involved in several disciplines including computer science and logic. If such a game has deterministic winning strategies, one may ask how simple such strategies can get. The answer may…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Stéphane Le Roux

Selective versions of screenability and of strong screenability coincide in a large class of spaces. We show that the corresponding games are not equivalent in even such standard metric spaces as the closed unit interval. We identify…

General Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Liljana Babinkostova , Marion Scheepers

We analyse a sequential contest with two players in darts where one of the contestants enjoys a technical advantage. Using methods from the causal machine learning literature, we analyse the built-in advantage, which is the first-mover…

Econometrics · Economics 2022-02-23 Daniel Goller

We propose a new greedy algorithm for the maximum cardinality matching problem. We give experimental evidence that this algorithm is likely to find a maximum matching in random graphs with constant expected degree c>0, independent of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-20 Martin Dietzfelbinger , Hendrik Peilke , Michael Rink

We extend the classical coupon collector's problem to one in which two collectors are simultaneously and independently seeking collections of $d$ coupons. We find, in finite terms, the probability that the two collectors finish at the same…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Amy N. Myers , Herbert S. Wilf

We study the complexity of solving two-player infinite duration games played on a fixed finite graph, where the control of a node is not predetermined but rather assigned randomly. In classic random-turn games, control of each node is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Sarvin Bahmani , Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen , Soumyajit Paul , Sven Schewe , Friedrich Slivovsky , Qiyi Tang , Dominik Wojtczak , Shufang Zhu

This letter studies the problem of minimizing increasing set functions, or equivalently, maximizing decreasing set functions, over the base of a matroid. This setting has received great interest, since it generalizes several applied…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Orcun Karaca , Daniel Tihanyi , Maryam Kamgarpour

A valuation for a player in a game in extensive form is an assignment of numeric values to the players moves. The valuation reflects the desirability moves. We assume a myopic player, who chooses a move with the highest valuation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Philippe Jehiel , Dov Samet

The stochastic multi-armed bandit problem is well understood when the reward distributions are sub-Gaussian. In this paper we examine the bandit problem under the weaker assumption that the distributions have moments of order 1+\epsilon,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-09-11 Sébastien Bubeck , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Gábor Lugosi

This paper is dealing with another multiple person game model under the antagonistic duel type setup. The most flexible multiple person duel game is analytically solved and the explicit formulas are solved to determine the time dependent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Song-Kyoo Kim

Two structures $A$ and $B$ are $n$-equivalent if player II has a winning strategy in the $n$-move Ehrenfeucht-Fra\"iss\'e game on $A$ and $B$. In earlier papers we studied $n$-equivalence classes of ordinals and coloured ordinals. In this…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Feresiano Mwesigye , John K. Truss

Delay games are two-player games of infinite duration in which one player may delay her moves to obtain a lookahead on her opponent's moves. Recently, such games with quantitative winning conditions in weak MSO with the unbounding…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Felix Klein , Martin Zimmermann