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Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate significant potential in multi-agent negotiation tasks, yet evaluation in this domain remains challenging due to a lack of robust and generalizable benchmarks. Abdelnabi et al. (2024) introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jorge Carrasco Pollo , Ioannis Kapetangeorgis , Joshua Rosenthal , John Hua Yao

We study generalized games with full row rank equality constraints and we provide a strikingly simple proof of strong monotonicity of the associated KKT operator. This allows us to show linear convergence to a variational equilibrium of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Mattia Bianchi , Emilio Benenati , Sergio Grammatico

Computational equilibrium finding in large zero-sum extensive-form imperfect-information games has led to significant recent AI breakthroughs. The fastest algorithms for the problem are new forms of counterfactual regret minimization [Brown…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Brian Hu Zhang , Tuomas Sandholm

The complexity of computing equilibrium refinements has been at the forefront of algorithmic game theory research, but it has remained open in the seminal class of potential games; we close this fundamental gap in this paper. We first show…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ioannis Anagnostides , Maria-Florina Balcan , Kiriaki Fragkia , Tuomas Sandholm , Emanuel Tewolde , Brian Hu Zhang

The window mechanism was introduced by Chatterjee et al. to reinforce mean-payoff and total-payoff objectives with time bounds in two-player turn-based games on graphs. It has since proved useful in a variety of settings, including parity…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-12 James C. A. Main , Mickael Randour , Jeremy Sproston

Long studied as a toy model, quantum zero-sum games have recently resurfaced as a canonical playground for modern areas such as non-local games, quantum interactive proofs, and quantum machine learning. In this simple yet fundamental…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yiheng Su , Emmanouil-Vasileios Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis , Pucheng Xiong

The paper introduces two player connectivity games played on finite bipartite graphs. Algorithms that solve these connectivity games can be used as subroutines for solving M\"uller games. M\"uller games constitute a well established class…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Zihui Liang , Bakh Khoussainov , Toru Takisaka , Mingyu Xiao

In this paper we consider extended stationary mean field games, that is mean-field games which depend on the velocity field of the players. We prove various a-priori estimates which generalize the results for quasi-variational mean field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-14 Diogo A. Gomes , Stefania Patrizi , Vardan Voskanyan

Finite turn-based safety games have been used for very different problems such as the synthesis of linear temporal logic (LTL), the synthesis of schedulers for computer systems running on multiprocessor platforms, and also for the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-05-08 Gilles Geeraerts , Joël Goossens , Amélie Stainer

Recently, the Manna-Pnueli Hierarchy has been used to define the temporal logics LTLfp and PPLTLp, which allow to use finite-trace LTLf/PPLTL techniques in infinite-trace settings while achieving the expressiveness of full LTL. In this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Daniel Hausmann , Shufang Zhu , Gianmarco Parretti , Christoph Weinhuber , Giuseppe De Giacomo , Nir Piterman

Multi-dimensional mean-payoff and energy games provide the mathematical foundation for the quantitative study of reactive systems, and play a central role in the emerging quantitative theory of verification and synthesis. In this work, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-04 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Mickael Randour , Jean-François Raskin

We give a direct polynomial-time reduction from parity games played over the configuration graphs of collapsible pushdown systems to safety games played over the same class of graphs. That a polynomial-time reduction would exist was known…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Matthew Hague , Roland Meyer , Sebastian Muskalla , Martin Zimmermann

Min-max formulations have attracted great attention in the ML community due to the rise of deep generative models and adversarial methods, while understanding the dynamics of gradient algorithms for solving such formulations has remained a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Guojun Zhang , Yaoliang Yu

Correlated equilibria -- and their generalization $\Phi$-equilibria -- are a fundamental object of study in game theory, offering a more tractable alternative to Nash equilibria in multi-player settings. While computational aspects of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Martino Bernasconi , Matteo Castiglioni , Andrea Celli , Gabriele Farina

In this paper we provide a case study of the use of relatively sophisticated mathematics and algorithms to redefine and adapt a simple traditional game/puzzle to exploit the computational power of smart devices. The focus here is not so…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Jeffrey Uhlmann

We propose a new deterministic symmetric recursive algorithm for solving mean-payoff games.

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Pierre Ohlmann

This paper considers a class of noncooperative games in which the feasible decision sets of all players are coupled together by a coupled inequality constraint. Adopting the variational inequality formulation of the game, we first introduce…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Huaqing Li , Liang Ran , Lifeng Zheng , Zhe Li , Jinhui Hu , Jun Li , Tingwen Huang

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

In this paper, we study games with continuous action spaces and non-linear payoff functions. Our key insight is that Lipschitz continuity of the payoff function allows us to provide algorithms for finding approximate equilibria in these…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-31 Argyrios Deligkas , John Fearnley , Paul Spirakis

We consider potential games with mixed-integer variables, for which we propose two distributed, proximal-like equilibrium seeking algorithms. Specifically, we focus on two scenarios: i) the underlying game is generalized ordinal and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-28 Filippo Fabiani , Barbara Franci , Simone Sagratella , Martin Schmidt , Mathias Staudigl