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Most algorithmic studies on multi-agent information design so far have focused on the restricted situation with no inter-agent externalities; a few exceptions investigated truly strategic games such as zero-sum games and second-price…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Chenghan Zhou , Thanh H. Nguyen , Haifeng Xu

In this paper, we study the problem of summation evaluation of secrets. The secrets are distributed over a network of nodes that form a ring graph. Privacy-preserving iterative protocols for computing the sum of the secrets are proposed,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Yang Liu , Qingchen Liu , Xiong Zhang , Shuqi Qin , Xiaoping Lei

We are concerned with a distributed approach to solve multi-cluster games arising in multi-agent systems. In such games, agents are separated into distinct clusters. The agents belonging to the same cluster cooperate with each other to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Jan Zimmermann , Tatiana Tatarenko , Volker Willert , Jürgen Adamy

We propose a type of non-cooperative game, termed multi-cluster aggregative game, which is composed of clusters as players, where each cluster consists of collaborative agents with cost functions depending on their own decisions and the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Yue Chen , Peng Yi

We investigate the computation of equilibria in extensive-form games where ex ante correlation is possible, focusing on correlated equilibria requiring the least amount of communication between the players and the mediator. Motivated by the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Andrea Celli , Stefano Coniglio , Nicola Gatti

We consider the problem of budget allocation for competitive influence maximization over social networks. In this problem, multiple competing parties (players) want to distribute their limited advertising resources over a set of social…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-31 S. Rasoul Etesami

An extensive literature in economics and social science addresses contests, in which players compete to outperform each other on some measurable criterion, often referred to as a player's score, or output. Players incur costs that are an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-01 Leslie Ann Goldberg , Paul W. Goldberg , Piotr Krysta , Carmine Ventre

We address the generalized Nash equilibrium seeking problem for a population of agents playing aggregative games with affine coupling constraints. We focus on semi-decentralized communication architectures, where there is a central…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Giuseppe Belgioioso , Sergio Grammatico

This paper examines multiplayer symmetric constant-sum games with more than two players in a competitive setting, including examples like Mahjong, Poker, and various board and video games. In contrast to two-player zero-sum games,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Jiawei Ge , Yuanhao Wang , Wenzhe Li , Chi Jin

We consider multi-agent decision making where each agent's cost function depends on all agents' strategies. We propose a distributed algorithm to learn a Nash equilibrium, whereby each agent uses only obtained values of her cost function at…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Tatiana Tatarenko , Maryam Kamgarpour

As large amounts of data are circulated both from users to a cloud server and between users, there is a critical need for privately aggregating the shared data. This paper considers the problem of private weighted sum aggregation with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Andreea B. Alexandru , George J. Pappas

In distributed learning settings, models are iteratively updated with shared gradients computed from potentially sensitive user data. While previous work has studied various privacy risks of sharing gradients, our paper aims to provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Zhuohang Li , Andrew Lowy , Jing Liu , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Kieran Parsons , Bradley Malin , Ye Wang

Distributed data sharing in dynamic networks is ubiquitous. It raises the concern that the private information of dynamic networks could be leaked when data receivers are malicious or communication channels are insecure. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Yang Lu , Minghui Zhu

This paper designs a distributed stochastic annealing algorithm for non-convex cooperative aggregative games, whose agents' cost functions not only depend on agents' own decision variables but also rely on the sum of agents' decision…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Yinghui Wang , Xiaoxue Geng , Guanpu Chen , Wenxiao Zhao

Zero-sum asymmetric games model decision making scenarios involving two competing players who have different information about the game being played. A particular case is that of nested information, where one (informed) player has superior…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Lichun Li , Jeff S. Shamma

In this work, we study stochastic non-cooperative games, where only noisy black-box function evaluations are available to estimate the cost function for each player. Since each player's cost function depends on both its own decision…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Haidong Li , Anzhi Sheng , Yijie Peng , Long Wang

We consider network games where a large number of agents interact according to a network sampled from a random network model, represented by a graphon. By exploiting previous results on convergence of such large network games to graphon…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Feras Al Taha , Francesca Parise

We propose a model for deterministic distributed function computation by a network of identical and anonymous nodes. In this model, each node has bounded computation and storage capabilities that do not grow with the network size.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-06-28 Julien M. Hendrickx , Alex Olshevsky , John N. Tsitsiklis

The availability of vast amounts of data is changing how we can make medical discoveries, predict global market trends, save energy, and develop educational strategies. In some settings such as Genome Wide Association Studies or deep…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Pablo Azar , Shafi Goldwasser , Sunoo Park

In this work, we study the distributed Nash equilibrium seeking problem for monotone generalized noncooperative games with set constraints and shared affine inequality constraints. A distributed regularized penalty method is proposed. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Chao Sun , Guoqiang Hu