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The present survey aims at presenting the current machine learning techniques employed in security games domains. Specifically, we focused on papers and works developed by the Teamcore of University of Southern California, which deepened…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Giuseppe De Nittis , Francesco Trovò

The widespread integration of IoT-controllable devices (e.g., smart EV charging stations and heat pumps) into modern power systems enhances capabilities but introduces critical cybersecurity risks. Specifically, these devices are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Sajjad Maleki , E. Veronica Belmaga , Charalambos Konstantinou , Subhash Lakshminarayana

This paper studies a strategic security problem in networked control systems under stealthy false data injection attacks. The security problem is modeled as a bilateral cognitive security game between a defender and an adversary, each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-05 Anh Tung Nguyen , Quanyan Zhu , André Teixeira

This paper studies multi-user communication systems with two groups of users: leaders which possess system information, and followers which have no system information using the formulation of Stackelberg games. In such games, the leaders…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-26 saeedeh parsaeefard , Mihaela van der Schaar , Ahmad R. Sharafat

The pursuit of sustainability motivates microgrids that depend on distributed resources to produce more renewable energies. An efficient operation and planning relies on a holistic framework that takes into account the interdependent…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Juntao Chen , Quanyan Zhu

LLM-based multi-agent systems have demonstrated impressive capabilities, but they also introduce significant safety risks when individual agents fail or behave adversarially. In this work, we study the automated design of agentic systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jonathan Nöther , Adish Singla , Goran Radanovic

We study Stackelberg equilibria in finitely repeated games, where the leader commits to a strategy that picks actions in each round and can be adaptive to the history of play (i.e. they commit to an algorithm). In particular, we study…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Natalie Collina , Eshwar Ram Arunachaleswaran , Michael Kearns

Stackelberg equilibria arise naturally in a range of popular learning problems, such as in security games or indirect mechanism design, and have received increasing attention in the reinforcement learning literature. We present a general…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Matthias Gerstgrasser , David C. Parkes

We study automated intrusion prevention using reinforcement learning. Following a novel approach, we formulate the interaction between an attacker and a defender as an optimal stopping game and let attack and defense strategies evolve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Kim Hammar , Rolf Stadler

In this paper, we study a routing and travel-mode choice problem for mobility systems with a multimodal transportation network as a ``mobility game" with coupled action sets. We develop a game-theoretic framework to study the impact on…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Ioannis Vasileios Chremos , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

The increasing reliance on cyber physical infrastructure in modern power systems has amplified the risk of targeted cyber attacks, necessitating robust and adaptive resilience strategies. This paper presents a mathematically rigorous game…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 S Krishna Niketh , Sagar Babu Mitikiri , V Vignesh , Vedantham Lakshmi Srinivas , Mayukha Pal

We propose a model for games in which the players have shared access to a blockchain that allows them to deploy smart contracts to act on their behalf. This changes fundamental game-theoretic assumptions about rationality since a contract…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Mathias Hall-Andersen , Nikolaj I. Schwartzbach

The increasing prevalence of multi-agent learning systems in society necessitates understanding how to learn effective and safe policies in general-sum multi-agent environments against a variety of opponents, including self-play.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Jake Levi , Chris Lu , Timon Willi , Christian Schroeder de Witt , Jakob Foerster

We develop investment approaches to secure electric power systems against load attacks where a malicious intruder (the attacker) covertly changes reactive power setpoints of loads to push the grid towards voltage instability while the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Lu An , Pratishtha Shukla , Aranya Chakrabortty , Alexandra Duel-Hallen

Self-play red team is an established approach to improving AI safety in which different instances of the same model play attacker and defender roles in a zero-sum game, i.e., where the attacker tries to jailbreak the defender; if self-play…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Gabriele La Malfa , Emanuele La Malfa , Saar Cohen , Jie M. Zhang , Michael Luck , Michael Wooldridge , Elizabeth Black

We identify a subtle security issue that impacts mechanism design in scenarios in which agents can absolutely commit to strategies. Absolute commitments allow the strategy of an agent to depend on the commitments made by the other agents.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Daji Landis , Nikolaj I. Schwartzbach

Selecting the combination of security controls that will most effectively protect a system's assets is a difficult task. If the wrong controls are selected, the system may be left vulnerable to cyber-attacks that can impact the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Dylan Léveillé , Jason Jaskolka

We study the problem of computing Stackelberg equilibria Stackelberg games whose underlying structure is in congestion games, focusing on the case where each player can choose a single resource (a.k.a. singleton congestion games) and one of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Matteo Castiglioni , Alberto Marchesi , Nicola Gatti , Stefano Coniglio

We consider a game in which a strategic defender classifies an intruder as spy or spammer. The classification is based on the number of file server and mail server attacks observed during a fixed window. The spammer naively attacks (with a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Lemonia Dritsoula , Patrick Loiseau , John Musacchio

Designing socially optimal policies in multi-agent environments is a fundamental challenge in both economics and artificial intelligence. This paper studies a general framework for learning Stackelberg equilibria in dynamic and uncertain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Jun He , Andrew L. Liu , Yihsu Chen