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We provide an in-depth study of Nash equilibria in multi-objective normal form games (MONFGs), i.e., normal form games with vectorial payoffs. Taking a utility-based approach, we assume that each player's utility can be modelled with a…

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This work studies an independent natural policy gradient (NPG) algorithm for the multi-agent reinforcement learning problem in Markov potential games. It is shown that, under mild technical assumptions and the introduction of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Youbang Sun , Tao Liu , Ruida Zhou , P. R. Kumar , Shahin Shahrampour

Strategic games admit a multi-graph representation, in which two kinds of relations, accessibility, and preferences, are used to describe how the players compare the possible outcomes. A category of games with a fixed set of players…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Fernando Tohmé , Ignacio Viglizzo

This paper studies a stochastic utility maximization game under relative performance concerns in finite agent and infinite agent settings, where a continuum of agents interact through a graphon (see definition below). We consider an…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-02-22 Ludovic Tangpi , Xuchen Zhou

Decision-making for autonomous driving is challenging, considering the complex interactions among multiple traffic agents (e.g., autonomous vehicles (AVs), human drivers, and pedestrians) and the computational load needed to evaluate these…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-13 Mushuang Liu , Ilya Kolmanovsky , H. Eric Tseng , Suzhou Huang , Dimitar Filev , Anouck Girard

An open problem in linear quadratic (LQ) games has been characterizing the Nash equilibria. This problem has renewed relevance given the surge of work on understanding the convergence of learning algorithms in dynamic games. This paper…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Giulio Salizzoni , Reda Ouhamma , Maryam Kamgarpour

Consider a set of agents who play a network game repeatedly. Agents may not know the network. They may even be unaware that they are interacting with other agents in a network. Possibly, they just understand that their payoffs depend on an…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-07-26 Pierpaolo Battigalli , Fabrizio Panebianco , Paolo Pin

Power system operators and electric utility companies often impose a coincident peak demand charge on customers when the aggregate system demand reaches its maximum. This charge incentivizes customers to strategically shift their peak usage…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Liudong Chen , Jay Sethuraman , Bolun Xu

This article introduces a class of $Nash$ games among $Stackelberg$ players ($NASPs$), namely, a class of simultaneous non-cooperative games where the players solve sequential Stackelberg games. Specifically, each player solves a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Margarida Carvalho , Gabriele Dragotto , Felipe Feijoo , Andrea Lodi , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

This work investigates a problem of simultaneous global cost minimization and Nash equilibrium seeking, which commonly exists in $N$-cluster non-cooperative games. Specifically, the agents in the same cluster collaborate to minimize a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Yipeng Pang , Guoqiang Hu

In this paper, we investigate the noncooperative games of multi-agent systems. Different from existing noncooperative games, our formulation involves the high-order nonlinear dynamics of players, and the communication topologies among…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-17 Zhenhua Deng , Jin Luo

Systems of competing agents can often be modeled as games. Assuming rationality, the most likely outcomes are given by an equilibrium (e.g. a Nash equilibrium). In many practical settings, games are influenced by context, i.e. additional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Daniel McKenzie , Howard Heaton , Qiuwei Li , Samy Wu Fung , Stanley Osher , Wotao Yin

This paper presents a new distributed algorithm that leverages heavy-ball momentum and a consensus-based gradient method to find a Nash equilibrium (NE) in a class of non-cooperative convex games with unconstrained action sets. In this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Duong Tung Nguyen , Angelia Nedich

There has been substantial progress on finding game-theoretic equilibria. Most of that work has focused on games with finite, discrete action spaces. However, many games involving space, time, money, and other fine-grained quantities have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Carlos Martin , Tuomas Sandholm

We consider the framework of average aggregative games, where the cost function of each agent depends on his own strategy and on the average population strategy. We focus on the case in which the agents are coupled not only via their cost…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Francesca Parise , Basilio Gentile , John Lygeros

Is there an algorithm that takes a game in normal form as input, and outputs a Nash equilibrium? If the payoffs are integers, the answer is yes, and lot of work has been done in its computational complexity. If the payoffs are permitted to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Tonicha Crook , Arno Pauly

We present a unifying representation of computation as a two-player game between an \emph{Algorithm} and \emph{Nature}, grounded in domain theory and game theory. The Algorithm produces progressively refined approximations within a Scott…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Paul Alexander Bilokon

Distributed Nash equilibrium (NE) seeking problem for multi-coalition games has attracted increasing attention in recent years, but the research mainly focuses on the case without agreement demand within coalitions. This paper considers a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Jialing Zhou , Yuezu Lv , Guanghui Wen , Jinhu Lv , Dezhi Zheng

This paper deals with the complexity of the problem of computing a pure Nash equilibrium for discrete preference games and network coordination games beyond $O(\log n)$-treewidth and tree metric spaces. First, we estimate the number of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Takashi Ishizuka , Naoyuki Kamiyama

We define a class of zero-sum games with combinatorial structure, where the best response problem of one player is to maximize a submodular function. For example, this class includes security games played on networks, as well as the problem…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Bryan Wilder