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In the context of large population symmetric games, approximate Nash equilibria are introduced through equilibrium solutions of the corresponding mean field game in the sense that the individual gain from optimal unilateral deviation under…

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Games with incomplete preferences are an important model for studying rational decision-making in scenarios where players face incomplete information about their preferences and must contend with incomparable outcomes. We study the problem…

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We consider a general class of nonzero-sum $N$-player stochastic games with impulse controls, where players control the underlying dynamics with discrete interventions. We adopt a verification approach and provide sufficient conditions for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Matteo Basei , Haoyang Cao , Xin Guo

Considering infinite-horizon, discrete-time, linear quadratic, N-player dynamic games with scalar dynamics, a graphical representation of feedback Nash equilibrium solutions is provided. This representation is utilised to derive conditions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Benita Nortmann , Mario Sassano , Thulasi Mylvaganam

Nonzero-sum stochastic differential games with impulse controls offer a realistic and far-reaching modelling framework for applications within finance, energy markets, and other areas, but the difficulty in solving such problems has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-29 Diego Zabaljauregui

We propose a deep neural network-based algorithm to identify the Markovian Nash equilibrium of general large $N$-player stochastic differential games. Following the idea of fictitious play, we recast the $N$-player game into $N$ decoupled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-08 Jiequn Han , Ruimeng Hu

We introduce Cut-and-Play, a practically-efficient algorithm for computing Nash equilibria in simultaneous non-cooperative games where players decide via nonconvex and possibly unbounded optimization problems with separable payoff…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Margarida Carvalho , Gabriele Dragotto , Andrea Lodi , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

We consider generalized Nash equilibrium problems (GNEPs) with non-convex strategy spaces and non-convex cost functions. This general class of games includes the important case of games with mixed-integer variables for which only a few…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Tobias Harks , Julian Schwarz

Mean field games are limit models for symmetric $N$-player games with interaction of mean field type as $N\to\infty$. The limit relation is often understood in the sense that a solution of a mean field game allows to construct approximate…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-29 Markus Fischer

We consider a dynamical approach to game in extensive forms. By restricting the convertibility relation over strategy profiles, we obtain a semi-potential (in the sense of Kukushkin), and we show that in finite games the corresponding…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Stéphane Le Roux , Arno Pauly

We propose an asynchronous block-iterative decomposition algorithm to solve Nash equilibrium problems involving a mix of nonsmooth and smooth functions acting on linear mixtures of strategies. The methodology relies heavily on monotone…

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In this paper, we show the equivalence between a constrained, multi-agent control problem, modeled within the port-Hamiltonian framework, and an exact potential game. Specifically, critical distance-based constraints determine a network of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Filippo Fabiani , Andrea Caiti

We introduce and investigate certain $N$ player dynamic games on the line and in the plane that admit Coulomb gas dynamics as a Nash equilibrium. Most significantly, we find that the universal local limit of the equilibrium is sensitive to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-29 René Carmona , Mark Cerenzia , Aaron Zeff Palmer

We analyse the computational complexity of finding Nash equilibria in simple stochastic multiplayer games. We show that restricting the search space to equilibria whose payoffs fall into a certain interval may lead to undecidability. In…

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We study power control in optimization and game frameworks. In the optimization framework there is a single decision maker who assigns network resources and in the game framework users share the network resources according to Nash…

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We study the computational complexity of decision problems about Nash equilibria in $m$-player games. Several such problems have recently been shown to be computationally equivalent to the decision problem for the existential theory of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Marie Louisa Tølbøll Berthelsen , Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen

We present multilinear and mixed-integer multilinear programs to find a Nash equilibrium in multi-player noncooperative games. We compare the formulations to common algorithms in Gambit, and conclude that a multilinear feasibility program…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Miriam Fischer , Akshay Gupte

In the present work we deal with set-valued equilibrium problems for which we provide sufficient conditions for the existence of a solution. The conditions that we consider are imposed not on the whole domain, but rather on a self…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-12 Szilárd László , Adrian Viorel

We present a direct reduction from k-player games to 2-player games that preserves approximate Nash equilibrium. Previously, the computational equivalence of computing approximate Nash equilibrium in k-player and 2-player games was…

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