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Solving parity games is a major building block for numerous applications in reactive program verification and synthesis. While they can be solved efficiently in practice, no known approach has a polynomial worst-case runtime complexity. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Tobias Hecking , Swathy Muthukrishnan , Alexander Weinert

The dynamics in games involving multiple players, who adaptively learn from their past experience, is not yet well understood. We analyzed a class of stochastic games with Markov strategies in which players choose their actions…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Shohei Hidaka

We develop an algebraic and operational framework for quantum isomorphisms of hypergraphs, using tools from compact quantum group theory. We introduce a new synchronous version of the hypergraph isomorphism game whose game algebra uniformly…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Georgios Baziotis , Alexandros Chatzinikolaou , Gage Hoefer

We analyze independent policy-gradient (PG) learning in $N$-player linear-quadratic (LQ) stochastic differential games. Each player employs a distributed policy that depends only on its own state and updates the policy independently using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Philipp Plank , Yufei Zhang

I study dynamic network formation games in which agents meet stochastically and form links based on their valuation of the network. I show that these games can be represented in terms of the values agents assign to network sub-structures.…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-19 Jose M. Betancourt

The network coloring game has been proposed in the literature of social sciences as a model for conflict-resolution circumstances. The players of the game are the vertices of a graph with $n$ vertices and maximum degree $\Delta$. The game…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Nikolaos Fryganiotis , Symeon Papavassiliou , Christos Pelekis

We study deterministic games of infinite duration played on graphs and focus on the strategy complexity of quantitative objectives. Such games are known to admit optimal memoryless strategies over finite graphs, but require infinite-memory…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Sougata Bose , Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen , David Purser , Patrick Totzke , Pierre Vandenhove

Two-player (antagonistic) games on (possibly stochastic) graphs are a prevalent model in theoretical computer science, notably as a framework for reactive synthesis. Optimal strategies may require randomisation when dealing with inherently…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-25 James C. A. Main , Mickael Randour

In the flavour of categorical quantum mechanics, we extend nonlocal games to allow quantum questions and answers, using quantum sets (special symmetric dagger Frobenius algebras) and the quantum functions of Musto, Reutter, and Verdon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Adina Goldberg

We study the value of unique games as a graph-theoretic parameter. This is obtained by labeling edges with permutations. We describe the classical value of a game as well as give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-25 Monika Rosicka , Simone Severini

We study a new class of Markov games, \emph(multi-player) zero-sum Markov Games} with \emph{Networked separable interactions} (zero-sum NMGs), to model the local interaction structure in non-cooperative multi-agent sequential…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Chanwoo Park , Kaiqing Zhang , Asuman Ozdaglar

This paper generalizes L.S. Shapley's celebrated value allocation theory on coalition games by discovering and applying a fundamental connection between stochastic path integration driven by canonical time-reversible Markov chains and…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Tongseok Lim

We establish a network formation game for the Internet's Autonomous System (AS) interconnection topology. The game includes different types of players, accounting for the heterogeneity of ASs in the Internet. We incorporate reliability…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-31 Eli A. Meirom , Shie Mannor , Ariel Orda

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in games on graphs within the research community, fueled by their relevance in applications such as economics, politics, and epidemiology. This paper aims to comprehensively detail the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Christian Giannetti

We study the classical and quantum values of one- and two-party linear games, an important class of unique games that generalizes the well-known XOR games to the case of non-binary outcomes. We introduce a ``constraint graph" associated to…

Genericity is the idea that the same program can work at many different data types. Longo, Milstead and Soloviev proposed to capture the inability of generic programs to probe the structure of their instances by the following equational…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-12-05 Samson Abramsky , Radha Jagadeesan

In a Maker-Breaker game on a graph $G$, Breaker and Maker alternately claim edges of $G$. Maker wins if, after all edges have been claimed, the graph induced by his edges has some desired property. We consider four Maker-Breaker games…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-24 Andrew Beveridge , Andrzej Dudek , Alan Frieze , Tobias Muller , Milos Stojakovic

Two-player games on graphs is central in many problems in formal verification and program analysis such as synthesis and verification of open systems. In this work we consider solving recursive game graphs (or pushdown game graphs) that can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Yaron Velner

In this note we improve a recent result by Arora, Khot, Kolla, Steurer, Tulsiani, and Vishnoi on solving the Unique Games problem on expanders. Given a $(1-\varepsilon)$-satisfiable instance of Unique Games with the constraint graph $G$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-03-03 Konstantin Makarychev , Yury Makarychev

Markov games (MGs) provide a mathematical foundation for multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), enabling self-interested agents to learn their optimal policies while interacting with others in a shared environment. However, due to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Huiwen Yan , Mushuang Liu