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Two-player complete-information game trees are perhaps the simplest possible setting for studying general-sum games and the computational problem of finding equilibria. These games admit a simple bottom-up algorithm for finding subgame…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Michael L. Littman , Nishkam Ravi , Arjun Talwar , Martin Zinkevich

The McNaughton-Zielonka divide et impera algorithm is the simplest and most flexible approach available in the literature for determining the winner in a parity game. Despite its theoretical worst-case complexity and the negative reputation…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Massimo Benerecetti , Daniele Dell'Erba , Fabio Mogavero

The computation of the winning set for parity objectives and for Streett objectives in graphs as well as in game graphs are central problems in computer-aided verification, with application to the verification of closed systems with strong…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Monika Henzinger , Veronika Loitzenbauer

Computational equilibrium finding in large zero-sum extensive-form imperfect-information games has led to significant recent AI breakthroughs. The fastest algorithms for the problem are new forms of counterfactual regret minimization [Brown…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Brian Hu Zhang , Tuomas Sandholm

Policy makers focus on stable strategies as the ones adopted by rational players. If there are many such solutions an important question is how to select amongst them. We study this question for the Multicommodity Flow Coalition Game, used…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Coulter Beeson , Bruce Shepherd

The semi-random graph process is a single player game in which the player is initially presented an empty graph on $n$ vertices. In each round, a vertex $u$ is presented to the player independently and uniformly at random. The player then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Pu Gao , Calum MacRury , Pawel Pralat

Progress-measure lifting algorithms for solving parity games have the best worst-case asymptotic runtime, but are limited by their asymmetric nature, and known from the work of Czerwi\'nski et al. (2018) to be subject to a matching…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Marcin Jurdziński , Rémi Morvan , Pierre Ohlmann , K. S. Thejaswini

This paper provides effective methods for the polyhedral formulation of impartial finite combinatorial games as lattice games. Given a rational strategy for a lattice game, a polynomial time algorithm is presented to decide (i) whether a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-05-30 Alan Guo , Ezra Miller

We consider a matching problem, which is meaningful in team competitions, as well as in information theory, recommender systems, and assignment problems. In the competitions which we study, each competitor in a team order plays a match with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Haris Aziz , Jiarui Gan , Grzegorz Lisowski , Ali Pourmiri

The potential harms of algorithmic decisions have ignited algorithmic fairness as a central topic in computer science. One of the fundamental problems in computer science is Set Cover, which has numerous applications with societal impacts,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Mohsen Dehghankar , Rahul Raychaudhury , Stavros Sintos , Abolfazl Asudeh

We introduce a way to parameterize automata and games on finite graphs with natural numbers. The parameters are accessed essentially by allowing counting down from the parameter value to 0 and branching depending on whether 0 has been…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Arno Pauly

A fundamental challenge in imperfect-information games is that states do not have well-defined values. As a result, depth-limited search algorithms used in single-agent settings and perfect-information games do not apply. This paper…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Noam Brown , Tuomas Sandholm , Brandon Amos

We incorporate group fairness into the algorithmic centroid clustering problem, where $k$ centers are to be located to serve $n$ agents distributed in a metric space. We refine the notion of proportional fairness proposed in [Chen et al.,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Bo Li , Lijun Li , Ankang Sun , Chenhao Wang , Yingfan Wang

In game theory, mechanism design is concerned with the design of incentives so that a desired outcome of the game can be achieved. In this paper, we study the design of incentives so that a desirable equilibrium is obtained, for instance,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Julian Gutierrez , Muhammad Najib , Giuseppe Perelli , Michael Wooldridge

Fairness is a desirable and crucial property of many protocols that handle, for instance, exchanges of message. It states that if at least one agent engaging in the protocol is honest, then either the protocol will unfold correctly and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Léonard Brice , Jean-François Raskin , Mathieu Sassolas , Guillaume Scerri , Marie van den Bogaard

We present several new characterizations of correlated equilibria in games with continuous utility functions. These have the advantage of being more computationally and analytically tractable than the standard definition in terms of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-06 Noah D. Stein , Pablo A. Parrilo , Asuman Ozdaglar

In this work, we introduce a new toolkit for analyzing cloning games, a notion that captures stronger and more quantitative versions of the celebrated quantum no-cloning theorem. This framework allows us to analyze a new cloning game based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Alexander Poremba , Seyoon Ragavan , Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Cooperative games provide an appropriate framework for fair and stable profit distribution in multiagent systems. In this paper, we study the algorithmic issues on path cooperative games that arise from the situations where some commodity…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Qizhi Fang , Bo Li , Xiaohan Shan , Xiaoming Sun

In the usual models of cooperative game theory, the outcome of a coalition formation process is either the grand coalition or a coalition structure that consists of disjoint coalitions. However, in many domains where coalitions are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Georgios Chalkiadakis , Edith Elkind , Evangelos Markakis , Maria Polukarov , Nicholas Robert Jennings

Fairness in clustering has been considered extensively in the past; however, the trade-off between the two objectives -- e.g., can we sacrifice just a little in the quality of the clustering to significantly increase fairness, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Rashida Hakim , Ana-Andreea Stoica , Christos H. Papadimitriou , Mihalis Yannakakis