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We consider infinite-state turn-based stochastic games of two players, Box and Diamond, who aim at maximizing and minimizing the expected total reward accumulated along a run, respectively. Since the total accumulated reward is unbounded,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-09 Tomáš Brázdil , Antonín Kučera , Petr Novotný

In this paper we introduce polytopal stochastic games, an extension of two-player, zero-sum, turn-based stochastic games, in which we may have uncertainty over the transition probabilities. In these games the uncertainty over the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Pablo F. Castro , Pedro D'Argenio

Game-theoretic techniques and equilibria analysis facilitate the design and verification of competitive systems. While algorithmic complexity of equilibria computation has been extensively studied, practical implementation and application…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Marta Kwiatkowska , Gethin Norman , David Parker , Gabriel Santos

Conventional game theory assumes that players are perfectly rational. In a realistic situation, however, players are rarely perfectly rational. This bounded rationality is one of the main reasons why the predictions of Nash equilibrium in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-01 Mojtaba Madadi Asl , Mehdi Sadeghi

We present novel techniques for neuro-symbolic concurrent stochastic games, a recently proposed modelling formalism to represent a set of probabilistic agents operating in a continuous-space environment using a combination of neural network…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Rui Yan , Gabriel Santos , Xiaoming Duan , David Parker , Marta Kwiatkowska

In this paper, we delve into the problem of using monetary incentives to encourage players to shift from an initial Nash equilibrium to a more favorable one within a game. Our main focus revolves around computing the minimum reward required…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Haoqiang Huang , Zihe Wang , Zhide Wei , Jie Zhang

We are interested in the convergence of the value of n-stage games as n goes to infinity and the existence of the uniform value in stochastic games with a general set of states and finite sets of actions where the transition is commutative.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-22 Xavier Venel

Mean field games formalize dynamic games with a continuum of players and explicit interaction where the players can have heterogeneous states. As they additionally yield approximate equilibria of corresponding $N$-player games, they are of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-09 Berenice Anne Neumann

In this paper, we introduce regularized stochastic team problems. Under mild assumptions, we prove that there exists an unique fixed point of the best response operator, where this unique fixed point is the optimal regularized team decision…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-09 Naci Saldi

We consider a class of continuous-time dynamic games involving a large number of players. Each player selects actions from a finite set and evolves through a finite set of states. State transitions occur stochastically and depend on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Leonardo Pedroso , Andrea Agazzi , W. P. M. H. Heemels , Mauro Salazar

In multi-agent autonomous systems, deception is a fundamental concept which characterizes the exploitation of unbalanced information to mislead victims into choosing oblivious actions. This effectively alters the system's long term…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Michael Tang , Miroslav Krstic , Jorge Poveda

We consider a distributed stochastic approximation (SA) scheme for computing an equilibrium of a stochastic Nash game. Standard SA schemes employ diminishing steplength sequences that are square summable but not summable. Such requirements…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-20 Farzad Yousefian , Angelia Nedich , Uday V. Shanbhag

In this paper, we settle the sampling complexity of solving discounted two-player turn-based zero-sum stochastic games up to polylogarithmic factors. Given a stochastic game with discount factor $\gamma\in(0,1)$ we provide an algorithm that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Aaron Sidford , Mengdi Wang , Lin F. Yang , Yinyu Ye

Estimating the unknown reward functions driving agents' behaviors is of central interest in inverse reinforcement learning and game theory. To tackle this problem, we develop a unified framework for reward function recovery in two-player…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Junyi Liao , Zihan Zhu , Ethan Fang , Zhuoran Yang , Vahid Tarokh

We study the existence of mixed-strategy equilibria in concurrent games played on graphs. While existence is guaranteed with safety objectives for each player, Nash equilibria need not exist when players are given arbitrary terminal-reward…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Patricia Bouyer , Nicolas Markey , Daniel Stan

We consider N-player and mean field games in continuous time over a finite horizon, where the position of each agent belongs to {-1,1}. If there is uniqueness of mean field game solutions, e.g. under monotonicity assumptions, then the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Alekos Cecchin , Paolo Dai Pra , Markus Fischer , Guglielmo Pelino

This paper combines ideas from Q-learning and fictitious play to define three reinforcement learning procedures which converge to the set of stationary mixed Nash equilibria in identical interest discounted stochastic games. First, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Lucas Baudin , Rida Laraki

Probabilistic timed automata are a suitable formalism to model systems with real-time, nondeterministic and probabilistic behaviour. We study two-player zero-sum games on such automata where the objective of the game is specified as the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Vojtěch Forejt , Marta Kwiatkowska , Gethin Norman , Ashutosh Trivedi

We consider zero-sum repeated games in which the players are restricted to strategies that require only a limited amount of randomness. Let $v_n$ be the max-min value of the $n$ stage game; previous works have characterized…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Mehrdad Valizadeh , Amin Gohari

In this paper, we study a subclass of n-player stochastic games, in which each player has their own internal state controlled only by their own action and their objective is a common goal called team variance which measures the total…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Li Xia