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We study the convergence of Nash equilibria in a game of optimal stopping. If the associated mean field game has a unique equilibrium, any sequence of $n$-player equilibria converges to it as $n\to\infty$. However, both the finite and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Marcel Nutz , Jaime San Martin , Xiaowei Tan

The $\varepsilon$-well-supported Nash equilibrium is a strong notion of approximation of a Nash equilibrium, where no player has an incentive greater than $\varepsilon$ to deviate from any of the pure strategies that she uses in her mixed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Artur Czumaj , Michail Fasoulakis , Marcin Jurdziński

An axiomatic characterization of Nash equilibrium is provided for games in normal form. The Nash equilibrium correspondence is shown to be fully characterized by four simple and intuitive axioms, two of which are inspired by contraction and…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-12-04 Michele Crescenzi

This paper is about computing constrained approximate Nash equilibria in polymatrix games, which are succinctly represented many-player games defined by an interaction graph between the players. In a recent breakthrough, Rubinstein showed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Argyrios Deligkas , John Fearnley , Rahul Savani

The Nash Equilibrium is a much discussed, deceptively complex, method for the analysis of non-cooperative games. If one reads many of the commonly available definitions the description of the Nash Equilibrium is deceptively simple in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-09 Philip V. Fellman

The overall aim of our research is to develop techniques to reason about the equilibrium properties of multi-agent systems. We model multi-agent systems as concurrent games, in which each player is a process that is assumed to act…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Julian Gutierrez , Aniello Murano , Giuseppe Perelli , Sasha Rubin , Thomas Steeples , Michael Wooldridge

In the context of large population symmetric games, approximate Nash equilibria are introduced through equilibrium solutions of the corresponding mean field game in the sense that the individual gain from optimal unilateral deviation under…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Mao Fabrice Djete , Nizar Touzi

Distributed Nash equilibrium seeking of aggregative games is investigated and a continuous-time algorithm is proposed. The algorithm is designed by virtue of projected gradient play dynamics and distributed average tracking dynamics, and is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Shu Liang , Peng Yi , Yiguang Hong , Kaixiang Peng

We study the computation of Nash equilibria in a two-player normal form game from the perspective of parameterized complexity. Recent results proved hardness for a number of variants, when parameterized by the support size. We complement…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-06-11 Danny Hermelin , Chien-Chung Huang , Stefan Kratsch , Magnus Wahlstrom

We study the existence and computation of Nash equilibria in concave games where the players' admissible strategies are subject to shared coupling constraints. Under playerwise concavity of constraints, we prove existence of Nash…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Philip Jordan , Maryam Kamgarpour

We study the problem of computing stationary Nash equilibria in discounted perfect information stochastic games from the viewpoint of computational complexity. For two-player games we prove the problem to be in PPAD, which together with a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen , Xinhao Nie

We investigate the fluctuations induced by irrationality in simple games with a large number of competing players. We show that Nash equilibria in such games are ``weakly'' stable: irrationality propagates and amplifies through players'…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 M. Marsili , Y. -C. Zhang

We design a distributed algorithm to seek generalized Nash equilibria of a robust game with uncertain coupled constraints. Due to the uncertainty of parameters in set constraints, we aim to find a generalized Nash equilibrium in the worst…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Gehui Xu , Guanpu Chen , Hongsheng Qi

We provide a complete characterization for the computational complexity of finding approximate equilibria in two-action graphical games. We consider the two most well-studied approximation notions: $\varepsilon$-Nash equilibria…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Argyrios Deligkas , John Fearnley , Alexandros Hollender , Themistoklis Melissourgos

Games with incomplete preferences are an important model for studying rational decision-making in scenarios where players face incomplete information about their preferences and must contend with incomparable outcomes. We study the problem…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Abhishek N. Kulkarni , Jie Fu , Ufuk Topcu

We investigate the complexity of bounding the uncertainty of graphical games, and we provide new insight into the intrinsic difficulty of computing Nash equilibria. In particular, we show that, if one adds very simple and natural additional…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Gianluigi Greco , Francesco Scarcello

We study the computational complexity of decision problems about Nash equilibria in $m$-player games. Several such problems have recently been shown to be computationally equivalent to the decision problem for the existential theory of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Marie Louisa Tølbøll Berthelsen , Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen

Establishing the existence of Nash equilibria for partially observed stochastic dynamic games is known to be quite challenging, with the difficulties stemming from the noisy nature of the measurements available to individual players…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Naci Saldi , Tamer Basar , Maxim Raginsky

Since the seminal PPAD-completeness result for computing a Nash equilibrium even in two-player games, an important line of research has focused on relaxations achievable in polynomial time. In this paper, we consider the notion of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Argyrios Deligkas , Michail Fasoulakis , Evangelos Markakis

We present efficient approximation algorithms for finding Nash equilibria in anonymous games, that is, games in which the players utilities, though different, do not differentiate between other players. Our results pertain to such games…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-31 Constantinos Daskalakis , Christos Papadimitriou