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Complex adaptive systems have been the subject of much recent attention. It is by now well-established that members (`agents') tend to self-segregate into opposing groups characterized by extreme behavior. However, while different social…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Shahar Hod , Ehud Nakar

We study a continuum model for stochastic reinforcement learning in repeated market entry games. Starting from a discrete-time microscopic learning rule, we derive a Fokker--Planck-type equation for the distribution of agents' propensities…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Esther Bou Dagher , Misha Perepelitsa , Ewelina Zatorska

We study adaptive learning in a typical p-player game. The payoffs of the games are randomly generated and then held fixed. The strategies of the players evolve through time as the players learn. The trajectories in the strategy space…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2018-04-09 James B. T. Sanders , J. Doyne Farmer , Tobias Galla

Evolutionary game theory has been an important tool for describing economic and social behaviour for decades. Approximate mean value equations describing the time evolution of strategy concentrations can be derived from the players'…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2011-02-10 Mathis Antony , Degang Wu , K Y Szeto

The idea of incompetence as a learning or adaptation function was introduced in the context of evolutionary games as a fixed parameter. However, live organisms usually perform different nonlinear adaptation functions such as a power law or…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-24 Maria Kleshnina , Jerzy A. Filar , Cecilia Gonzalez Tokman

Economic ensembles can be modeled as networks of interacting agents whose be-haviors are described in terms of game theory. The evolutionary paradigm has been applied to two-person games to discover strategies in this context.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Wan Ahmad Tajuddin Wan Abdullah

Human decision behaviour is quite diverse. In many games humans on average do not achieve maximal payoff and the behaviour of individual players remains inhomogeneous even after playing many rounds. For instance, in repeated prisoner…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-11-11 Martin Spanknebel , Klaus Pawelzik

Continuously changing environments have a paramount role in the evolution of cooperative behavior. Previous works have shown that the transitions among different games, as the feedback between behaviors and environments, can promote…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-25 Yuji Zhang , Minyu Feng , Qin Li , Matjaz Perc , Attila Szolnoki

When a game involves many agents or when communication between agents is not possible, it is useful to resort to distributed learning where each agent acts in complete autonomy without any information on the other agents' situations.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Jérôme Taupin , Xavier Leturc , Christophe J. Le Martret

A novel population-based heuristic algorithm called the adaptive and various learning-based algorithm (AVLA) is proposed for solving general optimization problems in this paper. The main idea of AVLA is inspired by the learning behaviors of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Sheng-Xue He

This paper characterizes optimal classification when individuals adjust their behavior in response to the classification rule. We model the interaction between a designer and a population as a Stackelberg game: the designer selects a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Elizabeth Maggie Penn , John W. Patty

We consider a version of large population games whose players compete for resources using strategies with adaptable preferences. The system efficiency is measured by the variance of the decisions. In the regime where the system can be…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Y. Michael Wong , S. W. Lim , Peixun Luo

When a prediction algorithm serves a collection of users, disparities in prediction quality are likely to emerge. If users respond to accurate predictions by increasing engagement, inviting friends, or adopting trends, repeated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Eden Saig , Nir Rosenfeld

Adaptive machines have the potential to assist or interfere with human behavior in a range of contexts, from cognitive decision-making to physical device assistance. Therefore it is critical to understand how machine learning algorithms can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Benjamin J. Chasnov , Lillian J. Ratliff , Samuel A. Burden

Many socio-economic and biological processes can be modeled as systems of interacting individuals. The behaviour of such systems can be often described within game-theoretic models. In these lecture notes, we introduce fundamental concepts…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-05-30 Jacek Miekisz

Spatial structure can play an important role in the evolution of cooperative behavior and the achievement of collective success of a population. In this paper, we explore the role of random and directed motion on spatial pattern formation…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-26 Tianyong Yao , Chenning Xu , Daniel B. Cooney

Here we will use results of Cox, Durrett, and Perkins for voter model perturbations to study spatial evolutionary games on $Z^d$, $d\ge 3$ when the interaction kernel is finite range, symmetric, and has covariance matrix $\sigma^2I$. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-12-30 Rick Durrett

Evolutionary game dynamics in finite populations provides a new framework to understand the selection of traits with frequency-dependent fitness. Recently, a simple but fundamental law of evolutionary dynamics, which we call {\sigma} law,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2012-04-19 Changbing Tang , Xiang Li , Lang Cao , Jingyuan Zhan

We describe a mechanism for biological learning and adaptation based on two simple principles: (I) Neuronal activity propagates only through the network's strongest synaptic connections (extremal dynamics), and (II) The strengths of active…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Per Bak , Dante R Chialvo

We introduce and study an evolutionary complementarity game where in each round a player of population 1 is paired with a member of population 2. The game is symmetric, and each player tries to obtain an advantageous deal, but when one of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-26 Juergen Jost , Wei Li