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We propose a reinforcement learning algorithm for stationary mean-field games, where the goal is to learn a pair of mean-field state and stationary policy that constitutes the Nash equilibrium. When viewing the mean-field state and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Qiaomin Xie , Zhuoran Yang , Zhaoran Wang , Andreea Minca

We prove that for every 3-player game with binary questions and answers and value $<1$, the value of the $n$-fold parallel repetition of the game decays polynomially fast to 0. That is, for every such game, there exists a constant $c>0$,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Uma Girish , Justin Holmgren , Kunal Mittal , Ran Raz , Wei Zhan

Let $\mathcal{G}$ be a $k$-player game with value $<1$, whose query distribution is such that no marginal on $k-1$ players admits a non-trivial Abelian embedding. We show that for every $n\geq N$, the value of the $n$-fold parallel…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Amey Bhangale , Mark Braverman , Subhash Khot , Yang P. Liu , Dor Minzer , Kunal Mittal

Multi-structural (MS) games are combinatorial games that capture the number of quantifiers of first-order sentences. On the face of their definition, MS games differ from Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse (EF) games in two ways: first, MS games are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Marco Carmosino , Ronald Fagin , Neil Immerman , Phokion Kolaitis , Jonathan Lenchner , Rik Sengupta

We use a recently discovered constrained de Finetti reduction (aka "Post-Selection Lemma") to study the parallel repetition of multi-player non-local games under no-signalling strategies. Since the technique allows us to reduce general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 Cécilia Lancien , Andreas Winter

We consider one-round games between a classical verifier and two provers. One of the main questions in this area is the \emph{parallel repetition question}: If the game is played $\ell$ times in parallel, does the maximum winning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-03 Julia Kempe , Oded Regev

We consider two-player stochastic games played on a finite state space for an infinite number of rounds. The games are concurrent: in each round, the two players (player 1 and player 2) choose their moves independently and simultaneously;…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Krishnendu Chatterjee

We study two-player security games which can be viewed as sequences of nonzero-sum matrix games played by an Attacker and a Defender. The evolution of the game is based on a stochastic fictitious play process, where players do not have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Kien C. Nguyen , Tansu Alpcan , Tamer Başar

We investigate an algorithm that assigns to any game in normal form an approximating game that admits an ordinal potential function. Due to the properties of potential games, the algorithm equips every game with a surrogate reward structure…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Philipp Lakheshar , Sharwin Rezagholi

Parity games are two-player infinite-duration games on graphs that play a crucial role in various fields of theoretical computer science. Finding efficient algorithms to solve these games in practice is widely acknowledged as a core problem…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Massimo Benerecetti , Daniele Dell'Erba , Fabio Mogavero

We prove that a sufficiently strong parallel repetition theorem for a special case of multiplayer (multiprover) games implies super-linear lower bounds for multi-tape Turing machines with advice. To the best of our knowledge, this is the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Kunal Mittal , Ran Raz

Game-theoretic algorithms are commonly benchmarked on recreational games, classical constructs from economic theory such as congestion and dispersion games, or entirely random game instances. While the past two decades have seen the rise of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Noah Krever , Jakub Černý , Moïse Blanchard , Christian Kroer

Fictitious play (FP) is one of the most fundamental game-theoretical learning frameworks for computing Nash equilibrium in $n$-player games, which builds the foundation for modern multi-agent learning algorithms. Although FP has provable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Yurong Chen , Xiaotie Deng , Chenchen Li , David Mguni , Jun Wang , Xiang Yan , Yaodong Yang

Game-theoretical approach to the analysis of parallel algorithms is proposed. The approach is based on presentation of the parallel computing as a congestion game. In the game processes compete for resources such as core of a central…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-25 O. A. Malafeyev , S. A. Nemnyugin

We apply a Bayesian agent-based framework inspired by QBism to iterations of two quantum games, the CHSH game and the quantum prisoners' dilemma. In each two-player game, players hold beliefs about an amount of shared entanglement and about…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 John B. DeBrota , Peter J. Love

In repeated interactions between individuals, we do not expect that exactly the same situation will occur from one time to another. Contrary to what is common in models of repeated games in the literature, most real situations may differ a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Anders Eriksson , Kristian Lindgren

In a $3$-$\mathsf{XOR}$ game $\mathcal{G}$, the verifier samples a challenge $(x,y,z)\sim \mu$ where $\mu$ is a probability distribution over $\Sigma\times\Gamma\times\Phi$, and a map $t\colon \Sigma\times\Gamma\times\Phi\to\mathcal{A}$ for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Amey Bhangale , Mark Braverman , Subhash Khot , Yang P. Liu , Dor Minzer

We give an arguably simpler and more direct proof of a recent result by Miller, Jain and Shi, who proved device-independent security of a protocol for quantum key distribution in which the devices can be used in parallel. Our proof combines…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-27 Thomas Vidick

Concavity and its refinements underpin tractability in multiplayer games, where players independently choose actions to maximize their own payoffs which depend on other players' actions. In concave games, where players' strategy sets are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Vincent Leon , Iosif Sakos , Ryann Sim , Antonios Varvitsiotis

In the context of quantum information theory, "quantization" of various mathematical and computational constructions is said to occur upon the replacement, at various points in the construction, of the classical randomization notion of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-22 Steven A. Bleiler , Faisal Shah Khan