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To achieve common goals, we often use joint commitments. Our commitment helps us to coordinate with our partners and assures them that their cooperative efforts will benefit themselves. However, if one of us can exploit the other's…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Marcus Krellner , The Anh Han

Proof-Number Search is a best-first search algorithm with many successful applications, especially in game solving. As large-scale computing clusters become increasingly accessible, parallelization is a natural way to accelerate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tomáš Čížek , Martin Balko , Martin Schmid

University engineering capstone projects involve sustained interaction among students, faculty, and industry sponsors whose objectives are only partially aligned. While capstones are widely used in engineering education, existing analyses…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Richard Q. Blackwell , Eman Hammad , Congrui Jin , Jisoo Park , Albert E. Patterson

It is a challenging task to reach global cooperation among self-interested agents, which often requires sophisticated design or usage of incentives. For example, we may apply supervisors or referees who are able to detect and punish…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-20 Ting Ling , Zhang Li , Minyu Feng , Attila Szolnoki

In the cybersecurity setting, defenders are often at the mercy of their detection technologies and subject to the information and experiences that individual analysts have. In order to give defenders an advantage, it is important to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Erick Galinkin , Emmanouil Pountourakis , John Carter , Spiros Mancoridis

We show that, for any language in NP, there is an entanglement-resistant constant-bit two-prover interactive proof system with a constant completeness vs. soundness gap. The previously proposed classical two-prover constant-bit interactive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-13 Richard Cleve , Dmitry Gavinsky , Rahul Jain

This paper coins the notion of Joker games, a variant of concurrent games where the players are not strictly adversarial. Instead, Player 1 can get help from Player 2 by playing a Joker move. We formalize these games as cost games and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Petra van den Bos , Marielle Stoelinga

With the blasting increase of wireless data traffic, incumbent wireless service providers (WSPs) face critical challenges in provisioning spectrum resource. Given the permission of unlicensed access to TV white spaces, WSPs can alleviate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-08-09 Feng Zhang , Wenyi Zhang , Qiang Ling

Effective security patrol management is critical for ensuring safety in diverse environments such as art galleries, airports, and factories. The behavior of patrols in these situations can be modeled by patrolling games. They simulate the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Matěj Lang , Adam Štěpánek , Róbert Zvara , Vojtěch Řehák , Barbora Kozlíková

Collaborative learning techniques have the potential to enable training machine learning models that are superior to models trained on a single entity's data. However, in many cases, potential participants in such collaborative schemes are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Florian E. Dorner , Nikola Konstantinov , Georgi Pashaliev , Martin Vechev

While reinforcement learning (RL) enhances their ability to plan and reason across retrieval steps, we identify a critical failure mode in this setting: Tool-Call Hacking. Unlike execution-based tools (e.g., code or math), whose effects are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-26 SHengjie Ma , Chenlong Deng , Jiaxin Mao , Jiadeng Huang , Teng Wang , Junjie Wu , Changwang Zhang , Jun wang

In order to better understand reasoning involved in analyzing infinite games in extensive form, we performed experiments in the proof assistant Coq that are reported here.

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Pierre Lescanne

Addressing the question of how to achieve optimal decision-making under risk and uncertainty is crucial for enhancing the capabilities of artificial agents that collaborate with or support humans. In this work, we address this question in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Nicole Orzan , Erman Acar , Davide Grossi , Patrick Mannion , Roxana Rădulescu

Multi-agent learning is a challenging problem in machine learning that has applications in different domains such as distributed control, robotics, and economics. We develop a prescriptive model of multi-agent behavior using Markov games.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Jalal Etesami , Christoph-Nikolas Straehle

In this paper, a multi-user cooperative computing framework is applied to enable mobile users to utilize available computing resources from other neighboring users via direct communication links. An incentive scheme based on Bertrand game…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Nan Zhang , Guopeng Zhang , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang

A fundamental challenge in formal theorem proving by LLMs is the lack of high-quality training data. Although reinforcement learning or expert iteration partially mitigates this issue by alternating between LLM generating proofs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Kefan Dong , Tengyu Ma

We consider preference communication in two-player multi-objective normal-form games. In such games, the payoffs resulting from joint actions are vector-valued. Taking a utility-based approach, we assume there exists a utility function for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Willem Röpke , Diederik M. Roijers , Ann Nowé , Roxana Rădulescu

Formal verification guarantees proof validity but not formalization faithfulness. For natural-language logical reasoning, where models construct axiom systems from scratch without library constraints, this gap between valid proofs and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Kyuhee Kim , Auguste Poiroux , Antoine Bosselut

Making decisions in the presence of a strategic opponent requires one to take into account the opponent's ability to actively mask its intended objective. To describe such strategic situations, we introduce the non-cooperative inverse…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Xiangyuan Zhang , Kaiqing Zhang , Erik Miehling , Tamer Başar

Punishment as a mechanism for promoting cooperation has been studied extensively for more than two decades, but its effectiveness remains a matter of dispute. Here, we examine how punishment's impact varies across cooperative settings…

General Economics · Economics 2025-08-26 Mohammed Alsobay , David G. Rand , Duncan J. Watts , Abdullah Almaatouq