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We consider a class of two-player dynamic stochastic nonzero-sum games where the state transition and observation equations are linear, and the primitive random variables are Gaussian. Each controller acquires possibly different dynamic…

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We design a distributed algorithm for learning Nash equilibria over time-varying communication networks in a partial-decision information scenario, where each agent can access its own cost function and local feasible set, but can only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Mattia Bianchi , Sergio Grammatico

This work studies Nash equilibrium seeking for a class of stochastic aggregative games, where each player has an expectation-valued objective function depending on its local strategy and the aggregate of all players' strategies. We propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Tongyu Wang , Peng Yi , Jie Chen

Multi-leader multi-follower games are a class of hierarchical games in which a collection of leaders compete in a Nash game constrained by the equilibrium conditions of another Nash game amongst the followers. The resulting equilibrium…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-27 Ankur A. Kulkarni , Uday V. Shanbhag

In multi-agent autonomous systems, deception is a fundamental concept which characterizes the exploitation of unbalanced information to mislead victims into choosing oblivious actions. This effectively alters the system's long term…

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Motivated by game-theoretic models of crowd motion dynamics, this paper analyzes a broad class of distributed games with jump diffusions within the recently developed $\alpha$-potential game framework. We demonstrate that analyzing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Xin Guo , Xinyu Li , Yufei Zhang

This paper considers a time-varying game with $N$ players. Every time slot, players observe their own random events and then take a control action. The events and control actions affect the individual utilities earned by each player. The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-04 Michael J. Neely

In this work, we introduce graphical modelsfor multi-player game theory, and give powerful algorithms for computing their Nash equilibria in certain cases. An n-player game is given by an undirected graph on n nodes and a set of n local…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Michael Kearns , Michael L. Littman , Satinder Singh

In this paper, we consider game problems played by (multi)-integrator agents, subject to external disturbances. We propose Nash equilibrium seeking dynamics based on gradient-play, augmented with a dynamic internal-model based component,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Andrew R Romano , Lacra Pavel

The decision making and management of many engineering networks involves multiple parties with conflicting interests, while each party is constituted with multiple agents. Such problems can be casted as a multi-cluster game. Each cluster is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Yue Chen , Peng Yi

This paper considers dyadic-exchange networks in which individual agents autonomously form coalitions of size two and agree on how to split a transferable utility. Valid results for this game include stable (if agents have no unilateral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-04 Dean Richert , Jorge Cortes

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

We consider a 3-player game in the normal form, in which each player has two actions. We assume that the game is symmetric and repeated infinitely many times. At each stage players make their choices knowing only the average payoffs from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Tadeusz Kufel , Sławomir Plaskacz , Joanna Zwierzchowska

In this work, we present a novel characterization of approximate Nash equilibria in a class of convex games over the simplex. To achieve this, we regularize the utility functions using the Shannon entropy term, connect the solutions to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Tatiana Tatarenko , S. Rasoul Etesami

This paper considers a class of generalized convex games where each player is associated with a convex objective function, a convex inequality constraint and a convex constraint set. The players aim to compute a Nash equilibrium through…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-23 Minghui Zhu , Emilio Frazzoli

We consider strongly monotone games with convex separable coupling constraints, played by dynamical agents, in a partial-decision information scenario. We start by designing continuous-time fully distributed feedback controllers, based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Mattia Bianchi , Sergio Grammatico

In this work, we study stochastic one-shot games where agents' utilities depend on the collective strategy profiles of other agents as well as on some well-behaved randomness. While each decision-maker is agnostic to the random variable's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Nirabhra Mandal , Sonia Martínez

A strategy profile in a multi-player game is a Nash equilibrium if no player can unilaterally deviate to achieve a strictly better payoff. A profile is an $\epsilon$-Nash equilibrium if no player can gain more than $\epsilon$ by…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ali Asadi , Léonard Brice , Krishnendu Chatterjee , K. S. Thejaswini

The designs of many large-scale systems today, from traffic routing environments to smart grids, rely on game-theoretic equilibrium concepts. However, as the size of an $N$-player game typically grows exponentially with $N$, standard game…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Paul Muller , Romuald Elie , Mark Rowland , Mathieu Lauriere , Julien Perolat , Sarah Perrin , Matthieu Geist , Georgios Piliouras , Olivier Pietquin , Karl Tuyls

In this paper, we consider the competitive diffusion game, and study the existence of its pure-strategy Nash equilibrium when defined over general undirected networks. We first determine the set of pure-strategy Nash equilibria for two…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Seyed Rasoul Etesami , Tamer Basar