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`Twenty questions' is a guessing game played by two players: Bob thinks of an integer between $1$ and $n$, and Alice's goal is to recover it using a minimal number of Yes/No questions. Shannon's entropy has a natural interpretation in this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Yuval Dagan , Yuval Filmus , Daniel Kane , Shay Moran

Introducing the simplest of all No-Signalling Games: the RGB Game where two verifiers interrogate two provers, Alice and Bob, far enough from each other that communication between them is too slow to be possible. Each prover may be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Xavier Coiteux-Roy , Claude Crépeau

Consider three players Alice, Bob and Cath who hold a, b and c cards, respectively, from a deck of d=a+b+c cards. The cards are all different and players only know their own cards. Suppose Alice and Bob wish to communicate their cards to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-02-27 Andres Cordon-Franco , Hans van Ditmarsch , David Fernandez-Duque , Joost J. Joosten , Fernando Soler-Toscano

In this work, we consider "decision" variants of a monogamy-of-entanglement game by Tomamichel, Fehr, Kaniewski, and Wehner [New Journal of Physics '13]. In its original "search" variant, Alice prepares a (possibly entangled) state on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Andrea Coladangelo , Qipeng Liu , Ziyi Xie

The game of memory is played with a deck of n pairs of cards. The cards in each pair are identical. The deck is shuffled and the cards laid face down. A move consists of flipping over first one card then another. The cards are removed from…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-08-27 Daniel J. Velleman , Gregory S. Warrington

In this paper the results of a simulation of a prisoner's dilemma robin-round tournament are presented. In the tournament each participating strategy plays an iterated prisoner's dilemma against each other strategy (round-robin) and as a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-10 Tobias Kretz

The_Robin_Hood_ game is played as follows: On day i, the Sheriff puts s(i) bags of gold in the cave. On night i, Robin removes r(i) bags from the cave. The game is played for each natural nymber i. Robin wins if each bag which was put in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-08-02 Boaz Tsaban

We show a parallel repetition theorem for the entangled value $\omega^*(G)$ of any two-player one-round game $G$ where the questions $(x,y) \in \mathcal{X}\times\mathcal{Y}$ to Alice and Bob are drawn from a product distribution on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-16 Rahul Jain , Attila Pereszlényi , Penghui Yao

In this paper we quantize the Card Game. In the classical version of this game, one player (Alice) can always win with propability 2/3. But when the other player (Bob) is allowed to apply quantum strategy, the original unfair game turns…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jiangfeng Du , Xiaodong Xu , Hui Li , Mingjun Shi , Xianyi Zhou , Rongdian Han

We train a single, goal-conditioned policy that can solve many robotic manipulation tasks, including tasks with previously unseen goals and objects. We rely on asymmetric self-play for goal discovery, where two agents, Alice and Bob, play a…

Graph games of infinite length are a natural model for open reactive processes: one player represents the controller, trying to ensure a given specification, and the other represents a hostile environment. The evolution of the system…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-09 Julien Cristau , Claire David , Florian Horn

The secure "pairing" of wireless devices based on auxiliary or out-of-band (OOB) communication, such as audio, visual, or tactile channels, is a well-established research direction. However, prior work shows that this approach to pairing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-05-07 Alexander Gallego , Nitesh Saxena , Jonathan Voris

We study the following combinatorial game played by two players, Alice and Bob, which generalizes the Pizza game considered by Brown, Winkler and others. Given a connected graph G with nonnegative weights assigned to its vertices, the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-08-07 Josef Cibulka , Jan Kynčl , Viola Mészáros , Rudolf Stolař , Pavel Valtr

We present a simple game model where agents with different memory lengths compete for finite resources. We show by simulation and analytically that an instability exists at a critical memory length, and as a result, different memory lengths…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-12 James Burridge , Yu Gao , Yong Mao

A fair coin is flipped $n$ times, and two finite sequences of heads and tails (words) $A$ and $B$ of the same length are given. Each time the word $A$ appears in the sequence of coin flips, Alice gets a point, and each time the word $B$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Anne-Laure Basdevant , Olivier Hénard , Edouard Maurel-Segala , Arvind Singh

We describe a simple scheme that allows an agent to learn about its environment in an unsupervised manner. Our scheme pits two versions of the same agent, Alice and Bob, against one another. Alice proposes a task for Bob to complete; and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Sainbayar Sukhbaatar , Zeming Lin , Ilya Kostrikov , Gabriel Synnaeve , Arthur Szlam , Rob Fergus

Let $a$, $b$, and $n$ be integers with $0<a<b<n$. In a certain two-player probabilistic chip-collecting game, Alice tosses a coin to determine whether she collects $a$ chips or $b$ chips. If Alice collects $a$ chips, then Bob collects $b$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Joshua Harrington , Xuwen Hua , Xufei Liu , Alex Nash , Rodrigo Rios , Tony W. H. Wong

We introduce a two-player model of reinforcement learning with memory. Past actions of an iterated game are stored in a memory and used to determine player's next action. To examine the behaviour of the model some approximate methods are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Adam Lipowski , Krzysztof Gontarek , Marcel Ausloos

We study the dynamics of repeated fair division between two players, Alice and Bob, where Alice partitions a cake into two subsets and Bob chooses his preferred one over $T$ rounds. Alice aims to minimize her regret relative to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Simina Brânzei , Reed Phillips

If Alice must communicate with Bob over a channel shared with the adversarial Eve, then Bob must be able to validate the authenticity of the message. In particular we consider the model where Alice and Eve share a discrete memoryless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Eric Graves , Paul Yu , Predrag Spasojevic