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We consider two-person zero-sum stochastic mean payoff games with perfect information, or BWR-games, given by a digraph $G = (V, E)$, with local rewards $r: E \to \ZZ$, and three types of positions: black $V_B$, white $V_W$, and random…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Endre Boros , Khaled Elbassioni , Vladimir Gurvich , Kazuhisa Makino

We investigate the existence of certain types of equilibria (Nash, $\varepsilon$-Nash, subgame perfect, $\varepsilon$-subgame perfect, Pareto-optimal) in multi-player multi-outcome infinite sequential games. We use two fundamental…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Stéphane Le Roux , Arno Pauly

In this paper, we consider the discounted continuous-time Markov decision process (CTMDP) with a lower bounding function. In this model, the negative part of each cost rate is bounded by the drift function, say $w$, whereas the positive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-05 Xin Guo , Alexey Piunovskiy , Yi Zhang

The focus of this paper is a Bayesian framework for solving a class of problems termed multi-agent inverse reinforcement learning (MIRL). Compared to the well-known inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) problem, MIRL is formalized in the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Xiaomin Lin , Peter A. Beling , Randy Cogill

This paper studies the finite-time horizon Markov games where the agents' dynamics are decoupled but the rewards can possibly be coupled across agents. The policy class is restricted to local policies where agents make decisions using their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Runyu Zhang , Yuyang Zhang , Rohit Konda , Bryce Ferguson , Jason Marden , Na Li

In this paper, we obtain new drift-type conditions for nonexplosion and explosion for nonhomogeneous Markov pure jump processes in Borel state spaces. The conditions are sharp; e.g., the one for nonexplosion is necessary if the state space…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Yi Zhang

We consider the problem of two-player zero-sum games. This problem is formulated as a min-max Markov game in the literature. The solution of this game, which is the min-max payoff, starting from a given state is called the min-max value of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Raghuram Bharadwaj Diddigi , Chandramouli Kamanchi , Shalabh Bhatnagar

We consider a dynamic version of sender-receiver games, where the sequence of states follows an irreducible Markov chain observed by the sender. Under mild assumptions, we provide a simple characterization of the limit set of equilibrium…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-04-03 Jerome Renault , Eilon Solan , Nicolas Vieille

We introduce a zero-sum game problem of mean-field type as an extension of the classical zero-sum Dynkin game problem to the case where the payoff processes might depend on the value of the game and its probability law. We establish…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Boualem Djehiche , Roxana Dumitrescu

We consider a two-player zero-sum deterministic differential game where each player uses both continuous and impulse controls in infinite-time horizon. We assume that the impulses supposed to be of general term and the costs depend on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Brahim El Asri , Hafid Lalioui

The paper is concerned with a zero-sum differential game in the case where a payoff is determined by the exit time, that is, the first time when the system leaves the game domain. Additionally, we assume that a part of domain's boundary is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Ekaterina Kolpakova

We study continuity properties of stochastic game problems with respect to various topologies on information structures, defined as probability measures characterizing a game. We will establish continuity properties of the value function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-02 Ian Hogeboom-Burr , Serdar Yüksel

We consider discrete-time Markov decision processes in which the decision maker is interested in long but finite horizons. First we consider reachability objective: the decision maker's goal is to reach a specific target state with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-14 Galit Ashkenazi-Golan , János Flesch , Arkadi Predtetchinski , Eilon Solan

Two-player zero-sum "graph games" are a central model, which proceeds as follows. A token is placed on a vertex of a graph, and the two players move it to produce an infinite "play", which determines the winner or payoff of the game.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Guy Avni , Ismael Jecker , Djordje Zikelic

We prove that every two-player non-zero-sum Dynkin game in continuous time admits an epsilon-equilibrium in randomized stopping times. We provide a condition that ensures the existence of an epsilon-equilibrium in non-randomized stopping…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-09-29 Rida Laraki , Eilon Solan

In optimal stopping problems, a Markov structure guarantees Markovian optimal stopping times (first exit times). Surprisingly, there is no analogous result for Markovian stopping games once randomization is required. This paper addresses…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Sören Christensen , Boy Schultz

This paper studies a two-person trading game in continuous time that generalizes Garivaltis (2018) to allow for stock prices that both jump and diffuse. Analogous to Bell and Cover (1988) in discrete time, the players start by choosing fair…

General Economics · Economics 2022-10-24 Alex Garivaltis

This paper extends Berge's maximum theorem for possibly noncompact action sets and unbounded cost functions to minimax problems and studies applications of these extensions to two-player zero-sum games with possibly noncompact action sets…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-14 Eugene A. Feinberg , Pavlo O. Kasyanov , Michael Z. Zgurovsky

We develop a martingale approach for studying continuous-time stochastic differential games of control and stopping, in a non-Markovian framework and with the control affecting only the drift term of the state-process. Under appropriate…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-08-28 Ioannis Karatzas , Ingrid-Mona Zamfirescu

In stochastic games with stage duration h, players act at times 0, h, 2h, and so on. The payoff and leaving probabilities are proportional to h. As h approaches 0, such discrete-time games approximate games played in continuous time. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Ivan Novikov