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In this paper we study the problem of exact recovery of the pure-strategy Nash equilibria (PSNE) set of a graphical game from noisy observations of joint actions of the players alone. We consider sparse linear influence games --- a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Asish Ghoshal , Jean Honorio

There has been significant recent progress in algorithms for approximation of Nash equilibrium in large two-player zero-sum imperfect-information games and exact computation of Nash equilibrium in multiplayer strategic-form games. While…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Sam Ganzfried

We study the query complexity of finding the set of all Nash equilibria $\mathcal X_\star \times \mathcal Y_\star$ in two-player zero-sum matrix games. Fearnley and Savani (2016) showed that for any randomized algorithm, there exists an $n…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Arnab Maiti , Ross Boczar , Kevin Jamieson , Lillian J. Ratliff

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

We study pure Nash equilibria in infinite-duration games on graphs, with partial visibility of actions but communication (based on a graph) among the players. We show that a simple communication mechanism consisting in reporting the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Patricia Bouyer , Nathan Thomasset

We investigate mean-field games from the point of view of a large number of indistinguishable players which eventually converges to infinity. The players are weakly coupled via their empirical measure. The dynamics of the states of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Rani Basna , Astrid Hilbert , Vassili N. Kolokoltsov

If a game has a Nash equilibrium with probability values that are either zero or Omega(1) then this equilibrium can be found exhaustively in polynomial time. Somewhat surprisingly, we show that there is a PTAS for the games whose equilibria…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-14 Constantinos Daskalakis , Christos H. Papadimitriou

Nash equilibrium has long been a desired solution concept in multi-player games, especially for those on continuous strategy spaces, which have attracted a rapidly growing amount of interests due to advances in research applications such as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Zehao Dou , Xiang Yan , Dongge Wang , Xiaotie Deng

We consider the question of whether, and in what sense, Wardrop equilibria provide a good approximation for Nash equilibria in atomic unsplittable congestion games with a large number of small players. We examine two different definitions…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Roberto Cominetti , Marco Scarsini , Marc Schröder , Nicolás Stier-Moses

We show that there is a polynomial-time approximation scheme for computing Nash equilibria in anonymous games with any fixed number of strategies (a very broad and important class of games), extending the two-strategy result of Daskalakis…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Constantinos Daskalakis , Christos H. Papadimitriou

We study the asymptotic organization among many optimizing individuals interacting in a suitable "moderate" way. We justify this limiting game by proving that its solution provides approximate Nash equilibria for large but finite player…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Franco Flandoli , Maddalena Ghio , Giulia Livieri

We study discrete-time mean-field Markov games with infinite numbers of agents where each agent aims to minimize its ergodic cost. We consider the setting where the agents have identical linear state transitions and quadratic cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-17 Zuyue Fu , Zhuoran Yang , Yongxin Chen , Zhaoran Wang

Strategic interactions can be represented more concisely, and analyzed and solved more efficiently, if we are aware of the symmetries within the multiagent system. Symmetries also have conceptual implications, for example for equilibrium…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Emanuel Tewolde , Brian Hu Zhang , Caspar Oesterheld , Tuomas Sandholm , Vincent Conitzer

We study Nash equilibrium learning in partially observable Markov games (POMGs), a multi-agent reinforcement learning framework in which agents cannot fully observe the underlying state. Prior work in this setting relies on centralization…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Philip Jordan , Maryam Kamgarpour

Computing equilibria of games is a central task in computer science. A large number of results are known for \emph{Nash equilibrium} (NE). However, these can be adopted only when coalitions are not an issue. When instead agents can form…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Nicola Gatti , Marco Rocco , Tuomas Sandholm

We consider the problem of computing stationary points in min-max optimization, with a particular focus on the special case of computing Nash equilibria in (two-)team zero-sum games. We first show that computing $\epsilon$-Nash equilibria…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ioannis Anagnostides , Ioannis Panageas , Tuomas Sandholm , Jingming Yan

We study natural improvement dynamics in weighted congestion games with polynomial latencies of maximum degree $d\geq 1$. We focus on two problems regarding the existence and efficiency of approximate pure Nash equilibria, with a reasonable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Ioannis Caragiannis , Angelo Fanelli

We conjecture that PPAD has a PCP-like complete problem, seeking a near equilibrium in which all but very few players have very little incentive to deviate. We show that, if one assumes that this problem requires exponential time, several…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Yakov Babichenko , Christos Papadimitriou , Aviad Rubinstein

We study pure-strategy Nash equilibria in multi-player concurrent deterministic games, for a variety of preference relations. We provide a novel construction, called the suspect game, which transforms a multi-player concurrent game into a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Patricia Bouyer , Romain Brenguier , Nicolas Markey , Michael Ummels

This paper develops a distributed Nash Equilibrium seeking algorithm for heterogeneous multi-robot systems. The algorithm utilises distributed optimisation and output control to achieve the Nash equilibrium by leveraging information shared…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yi Dong , Zhongguo Li , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn , Xiaowei Huang