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We develop a flexible stochastic approximation framework for analyzing the long-run behavior of learning in games (both continuous and finite). The proposed analysis template incorporates a wide array of popular learning algorithms,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Volkan Cevher

As Large Language Models (LLMs) integrate into our social and economic interactions, we need to deepen our understanding of how humans respond to LLMs opponents in strategic settings. We present the results of the first controlled…

General Economics · Economics 2025-05-19 Darija Barak , Miguel Costa-Gomes

Multiplayer games with selfish agents naturally occur in the design of distributed and embedded systems. As the goals of selfish agents are usually neither equivalent nor antagonistic to each other, such games are non zero-sum games. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-19 Thomas Brihaye , Julie De Pril , Sven Schewe

We study the global convergence of policy optimization for finding the Nash equilibria (NE) in zero-sum linear quadratic (LQ) games. To this end, we first investigate the landscape of LQ games, viewing it as a nonconvex-nonconcave…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Kaiqing Zhang , Zhuoran Yang , Tamer Başar

This paper presents the "Game Theory Explorer" software tool to create and analyze games as models of strategic interaction. A game in extensive or strategic form is created and nicely displayed with a graphical user interface in a web…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-07 Rahul Savani , Bernhard von Stengel

We study a class of nonzero-sum stochastic differential games between two teams with agents in each team interacting through graphon aggregates. On the one hand, in each large population group, agents act together to optimize a common…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-16 De-xuan Xu , Zhun Gou , Nan-jing Huang

Many real-world domains contain multiple agents behaving strategically with probabilistic transitions and uncertain (potentially infinite) duration. Such settings can be modeled as stochastic games. While algorithms have been developed for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Sam Ganzfried , Conner Laughlin , Charles Morefield

We examine global non-asymptotic convergence properties of policy gradient methods for multi-agent reinforcement learning (RL) problems in Markov potential games (MPG). To learn a Nash equilibrium of an MPG in which the size of state space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Dongsheng Ding , Chen-Yu Wei , Kaiqing Zhang , Mihailo R. Jovanović

The paper studies properties of functional dependencies between strategies of players in Nash equilibria of multi-player strategic games. The main focus is on the properties of functional dependencies in the context of a fixed dependency…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Kristine Harjes , Pavel Naumov

In this paper we introduce the concept of split Nash equilibrium problems associated with two related noncooperative strategic games. Then we apply the Fan-KKM theorem to prove the existence of solutions to split Nash equilibrium problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Jinlu Li

We introduce a new measure of the discrepancy in strategic games between the social welfare in a Nash equilibrium and in a social optimum, that we call selfishness level. It is the smallest fraction of the social welfare that needs to be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Krzysztof R. Apt , Guido Schaefer

Adversarial multiplayer games are an important object of study in multiagent learning. In particular, polymatrix zero-sum games are a multiplayer setting where Nash equilibria are known to be efficiently computable. Towards understanding…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Alexandros Hollender , Gilbert Maystre , Sai Ganesh Nagarajan

We define a model for linear logic based on two well-known ingredients: games and simulations. This model is interesting in the following respect: while it is obvious that the objects interpreting formulas are games and that everything is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-05-26 Pierre Hyvernat

Learning processes in games explain how players grapple with one another in seeking an equilibrium. We study a natural model of learning based on individual gradients in two-player continuous games. In such games, the arguably natural…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Benjamin J. Chasnov , Daniel Calderone , Behçet Açıkmeşe , Samuel A. Burden , Lillian J. Ratliff

Nash equilibrium is a solution concept in non-strictly competitive, non-cooperative game theory that finds applications in various scientific and engineering disciplines. A non-strictly competitive, non-cooperative game model is presented…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-05 Faisal Shah Khan

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

Individuals, or organizations, cooperate with or compete against one another in a wide range of practical situations. Such strategic interactions are often modeled as games played on networks, where an individual's payoff depends not only…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Yan Leng , Xiaowen Dong , Junfeng Wu , Alex Pentland

Static potential games are non-cooperative games which admit a fictitious function, also referred to as a potential function, such that the minimizers of this function constitute a subset (or a refinement) of the Nash equilibrium strategies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Aathira Prasad , Puduru Viswanadha Reddy

Our paper addresses characterizing conditions for a linear quadratic (LQ) game to be a potential game. The desired properties of potential games in finite action settings, such as convergence of learning dynamics to Nash equilibria, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Sara Hosseinirad , Giulio Salizzoni , Alireza Alian Porzani , Maryam Kamgarpour

Considering infinite-horizon, discrete-time, linear quadratic, N-player dynamic games with scalar dynamics, a graphical representation of feedback Nash equilibrium solutions is provided. This representation is utilised to derive conditions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Benita Nortmann , Mario Sassano , Thulasi Mylvaganam