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Nash equilibrium is a popular solution concept for solving imperfect-information games in practice. However, it has a major drawback: it does not preclude suboptimal play in branches of the game tree that are not reached in equilibrium.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Christian Kroer , Gabriele Farina , Tuomas Sandholm

We consider two classes of constrained finite state-action stochastic games. First, we consider a two player nonzero sum single controller constrained stochastic game with both average and discounted cost criterion. We consider the same…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-11 Vikas Vikram Singh , N. Hemachandra

We study the query complexity of approximate notions of Nash equilibrium in games with a large number of players $n$. Our main result states that for $n$-player binary-action games and for constant $\varepsilon$, the query complexity of an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-21 Yakov Babichenko

We present a unifying representation of computation as a two-player game between an \emph{Algorithm} and \emph{Nature}, grounded in domain theory and game theory. The Algorithm produces progressively refined approximations within a Scott…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Paul Alexander Bilokon

In~[1],authors considered a general finite horizon model of dynamic game of asymmetric information, where N players have types evolving as independent Markovian process, where each player observes its own type perfectly and actions of all…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Deepanshu Vasal

While Online Gradient Descent and other no-regret learning procedures are known to efficiently converge to a coarse correlated equilibrium in games where each agent's utility is concave in their own strategy, this is not the case when…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yang Cai , Constantinos Daskalakis , Haipeng Luo , Chen-Yu Wei , Weiqiang Zheng

We consider evolutionary games on a population whose underlying topology of interactions is determined by a binomial random graph $G(n,p)$. Our focus is on 2-player symmetric games with 2 strategies played between the incident members of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Jordan Chellig , Calina Durbac , Nikolaos Fountoulakis

Strategic interactions can be represented more concisely, and analyzed and solved more efficiently, if we are aware of the symmetries within the multiagent system. Symmetries also have conceptual implications, for example for equilibrium…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Emanuel Tewolde , Brian Hu Zhang , Caspar Oesterheld , Tuomas Sandholm , Vincent Conitzer

We show that the BIMATRIX game does not have a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme, unless PPAD is in P. In other words, no algorithm with time polynomial in n and 1/\epsilon can compute an \epsilon-approximate Nash equilibrium of an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Xi Chen , Xiaotie Deng , Shang-Hua Teng

We study rational synthesis problems for concurrent games with omega-regular objectives. Our model of rationality considers only pure strategy Nash equilibria that satisfy either a social welfare or Pareto optimality condition with respect…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Purandar Bhaduri

Coalition formation studies how to partition a set of agents into disjoint coalitions under consideration of their preferences. We study the classical objective of stability in a variant of additively separable hedonic games where agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Fabian Frank , Matija Novaković , René Romen

We consider the problem of learning stable matchings with unknown preferences in a decentralized and uncoordinated manner, where "decentralized" means that players make decisions individually without the influence of a central platform, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-16 S. Rasoul Etesami , R. Srikant

Learning processes in games explain how players grapple with one another in seeking an equilibrium. We study a natural model of learning based on individual gradients in two-player continuous games. In such games, the arguably natural…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Benjamin J. Chasnov , Daniel Calderone , Behçet Açıkmeşe , Samuel A. Burden , Lillian J. Ratliff

The concept of evolutionarily stability and its relation with the fixed points of the replicator equation are important aspects of evolutionary game dynamics. In the light of the fact that oscillating state of a population and individuals…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-21 Vikash Kumar Dubey , Suman Chakraborty , Sagar Chakraborty

Dynamic games are powerful tools to model multi-agent decision-making, yet computing Nash (generalized Nash) equilibria remains a central challenge in such settings. Complexity arises from tightly coupled optimality conditions, nested…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Mahdis Rabbani , Navid Mojahed , Shima Nazari

The finitely repeated Prisoners' Dilemma is a good illustration of the discrepancy between the strategic behaviour suggested by a game-theoretic analysis and the behaviour often observed among human players, where cooperation is maintained…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-01-10 Kristian Lindgren , Vilhelm Verendel

In this paper, we examine the long-run behavior of regularized, no-regret learning in finite games. A well-known result in the field states that the empirical frequencies of no-regret play converge to the game's set of coarse correlated…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Victor Boone , Panayotis Mertikopoulos

An important aspect in systems of multiple autonomous agents is the exploitation of synergies via coalition formation. In this paper, we solve various open problems concerning the computational complexity of stable partitions in additively…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-06 Haris Aziz , Felix Brandt , Hans Georg Seedig

This paper is based on the complete classification of evolutionary scenarios for the Moran process with two strategies given by Taylor et al. (B. Math. Biol. 66(6): 1621--1644, 2004). Their classification is based on whether each strategy…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-27 Evandro P. Souza , Eliza M. Ferreira , Armando G. M. Neves

Cut games are among the most fundamental strategic games in algorithmic game theory. It is well-known that computing an exact pure Nash equilibrium in these games is PLS-hard, so research has focused on computing approximate equilibria. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Ioannis Caragiannis , Zhile Jiang