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The Policy-Space Response Oracles (PSRO) framework scales equilibrium computation to large zero-sum games by iteratively expanding a restricted strategy set using deep reinforcement learning (DRL). A central challenge is to construct, under…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Junyu Zhang , Feihong Yang , Jian Wang , Chao Wang , Xudong Zhang

In competitive two-agent environments, deep reinforcement learning (RL) methods based on the \emph{Double Oracle (DO)} algorithm, such as \emph{Policy Space Response Oracles (PSRO)} and \emph{Anytime PSRO (APSRO)}, iteratively add RL best…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Stephen McAleer , JB Lanier , Kevin Wang , Pierre Baldi , Roy Fox , Tuomas Sandholm

Policy space response oracles (PSRO) is a multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm that has achieved state-of-the-art performance in very large two-player zero-sum games. PSRO is based on the tabular double oracle (DO) method, an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Stephen McAleer , Kevin Wang , John Lanier , Marc Lanctot , Pierre Baldi , Tuomas Sandholm , Roy Fox

Policy-Space Response Oracles (PSRO) is a general algorithmic framework for learning policies in multiagent systems by interleaving empirical game analysis with deep reinforcement learning (Deep RL). At each iteration, Deep RL is invoked to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Max Olan Smith , Thomas Anthony , Michael P. Wellman

Solving Nash equilibrium is the key challenge in normal-form games with large strategy spaces, where open-ended learning frameworks offer an efficient approach. In this work, we propose an innovative unified open-ended learning framework…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Yudong Hu , Haoran Li , Congying Han , Tiande Guo , Mingqiang Li , Bonan Li

Recent advances in multiagent learning have seen the introduction ofa family of algorithms that revolve around the population-based trainingmethod PSRO, showing convergence to Nash, correlated and coarse corre-lated equilibria. Notably,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Paul Muller , Mark Rowland , Romuald Elie , Georgios Piliouras , Julien Perolat , Mathieu Lauriere , Raphael Marinier , Olivier Pietquin , Karl Tuyls

Policy Space Response Oracles (PSRO) is a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm for two-player zero-sum games that has been empirically shown to find approximate Nash equilibria in large games. Although PSRO is guaranteed to converge to an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Stephen McAleer , John Lanier , Kevin Wang , Pierre Baldi , Roy Fox

Game theory provides a mathematical way to study the interaction between multiple decision makers. However, classical game-theoretic analysis is limited in scalability due to the large number of strategies, precluding direct application to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Ariyan Bighashdel , Yongzhao Wang , Stephen McAleer , Rahul Savani , Frans A. Oliehoek

Policy Space Response Oracle methods (PSRO) provide a general solution to learn Nash equilibrium in two-player zero-sum games but suffer from two drawbacks: (1) the computation inefficiency due to the need for consistent meta-game…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Ming Zhou , Jingxiao Chen , Ying Wen , Weinan Zhang , Yaodong Yang , Yong Yu , Jun Wang

Finding approximate Nash equilibria in zero-sum imperfect-information games is challenging when the number of information states is large. Policy Space Response Oracles (PSRO) is a deep reinforcement learning algorithm grounded in game…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Stephen McAleer , John Lanier , Roy Fox , Pierre Baldi

Policy Space Response Oracles (PSRO) combines game-theoretic equilibrium computation with learning and is effective in approximating Nash Equilibrium in zero-sum games. However, the computational cost of PSRO has become a significant…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Yingzhuo Liu , Shuodi Liu , Weijun Luo , Liuyu Xiang , Zhaofeng He

Policy-Space Response Oracles (PSRO) as a general algorithmic framework has achieved state-of-the-art performance in learning equilibrium policies of two-player zero-sum games. However, the hand-crafted hyperparameter value selection in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Pengdeng Li , Shuxin Li , Chang Yang , Xinrun Wang , Xiao Huang , Hau Chan , Bo An

Self-play (SP) is a popular multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) framework for solving competitive games, where each agent optimizes policy by treating others as part of the environment. Despite the empirical successes, the theoretical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Zelai Xu , Yancheng Liang , Chao Yu , Yu Wang , Yi Wu

Policy-Space Response Oracles (PSRO) is an influential algorithm framework for approximating a Nash Equilibrium (NE) in multi-agent non-transitive games. Many previous studies have been trying to promote policy diversity in PSRO. A major…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Jian Yao , Weiming Liu , Haobo Fu , Yaodong Yang , Stephen McAleer , Qiang Fu , Wei Yang

Zero-sum games such as chess and poker are, abstractly, functions that evaluate pairs of agents, for example labeling them `winner' and `loser'. If the game is approximately transitive, then self-play generates sequences of agents of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 David Balduzzi , Marta Garnelo , Yoram Bachrach , Wojciech M. Czarnecki , Julien Perolat , Max Jaderberg , Thore Graepel

For solving zero-sum games involving non-transitivity, a useful approach is to maintain a policy population to approximate the Nash Equilibrium (NE). Previous studies have shown that the Policy Space Response Oracles (PSRO) algorithm is an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jiesong Lian , Yucong Huang , Chengdong Ma , Mingzhi Wang , Ying Wen , Long Hu , Yixue Hao

Policy Space Response Oracle (PSRO) with policy population construction has been demonstrated as an effective method for approximating Nash Equilibrium (NE) in zero-sum games. Existing studies have attempted to improve diversity in policy…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Yucong Huang , Jiesong Lian , Mingzhi Wang , Chengdong Ma , Ying Wen

We present an agent-based simulator for economic systems with heterogeneous households, firms, central bank, and government agents. These agents interact to define production, consumption, and monetary flow. Each agent type has distinct…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Kshama Dwarakanath , Svitlana Vyetrenko , Tucker Balch

Two-player, constant-sum games are well studied in the literature, but there has been limited progress outside of this setting. We propose Joint Policy-Space Response Oracles (JPSRO), an algorithm for training agents in n-player,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Luke Marris , Paul Muller , Marc Lanctot , Karl Tuyls , Thore Graepel

Policy Space Response Oracles (PSRO) interleaves empirical game-theoretic analysis with deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to solve games too complex for traditional analytic methods. Tree-exploiting PSRO (TE-PSRO) is a variant of this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Christine Konicki , Mithun Chakraborty , Michael P. Wellman
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