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The mu-calculus is a powerful tool for specifying and verifying transition systems, including those with both demonic and angelic choice; its quantitative generalisation qMu extends that to probabilistic choice. We show that for a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Annabelle McIver , Carroll Morgan

In this paper, we study fully coupled nonlocal second order quasilinear forward-backward partial differential equations (FBPDEs), which arise from solution of the mean field game (MFG) suggested by Lasry and Lions [Japan. J. Math. 2 (2007),…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Ziyu Huang , Shanjian Tang

In recent work of Hazan and Krauthgamer (SICOMP 2011), it was shown that finding an $\eps$-approximate Nash equilibrium with near-optimal value in a two-player game is as hard as finding a hidden clique of size $O(\log n)$ in the random…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-04-20 Per Austrin , Mark Braverman , Eden Chlamtac

It is generally known that in order to solve the split equality fixed-point problem (SEFPP), it is necessary to compute the norm of bounded and linear operators, which is a challenging task in real life, to address this issue, we studied…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-04-01 Lawan Bulama Mohammed , Adem Kilicman

We propose a framework to compute approximate Nash equilibria in integer programming games with nonlinear payoffs, i.e., simultaneous and non-cooperative games where each player solves a parametrized mixed-integer nonlinear program. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Aloïs Duguet , Margarida Carvalho , Gabriele Dragotto , Sandra Ulrich Ngueveu

In many multiagent environments, a designer has some, but limited control over the game being played. In this paper, we formalize this by considering incompletely specified games, in which some entries of the payoff matrices can be chosen…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Markus Brill , Rupert Freeman , Vincent Conitzer

We consider parity games on infinite graphs where configurations are represented by control-states and integer vectors. This framework subsumes two classic game problems: parity games on vector addition systems with states (vass) and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-13 Parosh Aziz Abdulla , Richard Mayr , Arnaud Sangnier , Jeremy Sproston

Nash equilibrium is one of the most influential solution concepts in game theory. With the development of computer science and artificial intelligence, there is an increasing demand on Nash equilibrium computation, especially for Internet…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Hanyu Li , Wenhan Huang , Zhijian Duan , David Henry Mguni , Kun Shao , Jun Wang , Xiaotie Deng

Hedonic games are a prominent model of coalition formation, in which each agent's utility only depends on the coalition she resides. The subclass of hedonic games that models the formation of general partnerships, where output is shared…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Bugra Caskurlu , Fatih Erdem Kizilkaya

Similar to the role of Markov decision processes in reinforcement learning, Stochastic Games (SGs) lay the foundation for the study of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) and sequential agent interactions. In this paper, we derive…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Xiaotie Deng , Ningyuan Li , David Mguni , Jun Wang , Yaodong Yang

We study the complexity of computing equilibria in two classes of network games based on flows - fractional BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) games and fractional BBC (Bounded Budget Connection) games. BGP is the glue that holds the Internet…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-05 Laura J. Poplawski , Rajmohan Rajaraman , Ravi Sundaram , Shang-Hua Teng

We revisit the coalition structure generation problem in which the goal is to partition the players into exhaustive and disjoint coalitions so as to maximize the social welfare. One of our key results is a general polynomial-time algorithm…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-21 Haris Aziz , Bart de Keijzer

We show that the number of $k$-matching in a given undirected graph $G$ is equal to the number of perfect matching of the corresponding graph $G_k$ on an even number of vertices divided by a suitable factor. If $G$ is bipartite then one can…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Shmuel Friedland , Daniel Levy

We introduce a natural notion of limit-deterministic parity automata and present a method that uses such automata to construct satisfiability games for the weakly aconjunctive fragment of the $\mu$-calculus. To this end we devise a method…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Daniel Hausmann , Lutz Schröder , Hans-Peter Deifel

We introduce the countdown $\mu$-calculus, an extension of the modal $\mu$-calculus with ordinal approximations of fixpoint operators. In addition to properties definable in the classical calculus, it can express (un)boundedness properties…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Jędrzej Kołodziejski , Bartek Klin

This paper provides a polynomial-time algorithm for solving parity games that runs in $\mathcal{O}(n^{2}\cdot(n + m))$ time-ending a search that has taken decades. Unlike previous attractor-based algorithms, the presented algorithm only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Rick van der Heijden

An efficient quantum algorithm is proposed to solve in polynomial time the parity problem, one of the hardest problems both in conventional quantum computation and in classical computation, on NMR quantum computers. It is based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xijia Miao

This paper studies the polynomial optimization problem whose feasible set is a union of several basic closed semialgebraic sets. We propose a unified hierarchy of Moment-SOS relaxations to solve it globally. Under some assumptions, we prove…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Jiawang Nie , Linghao Zhang

We provide a unifying, black-box tool for establishing existence of approximate equilibria in weighted congestion games and, at the same time, bounding their Price of Stability. Our framework can handle resources with general…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Yiannis Giannakopoulos , Diogo Poças

We prove that finding an $\epsilon$-approximate Nash equilibrium is PPAD-complete for constant $\epsilon$ and a particularly simple class of games: polymatrix, degree 3 graphical games, in which each player has only two actions. As…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Aviad Rubinstein