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In this paper, we propose Posterior Sampling Reinforcement Learning for Zero-sum Stochastic Games (PSRL-ZSG), the first online learning algorithm that achieves Bayesian regret bound of $O(HS\sqrt{AT})$ in the infinite-horizon zero-sum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Mehdi Jafarnia-Jahromi , Rahul Jain , Ashutosh Nayyar

Prediction is a well-studied machine learning task, and prediction algorithms are core ingredients in online products and services. Despite their centrality in the competition between online companies who offer prediction-based products,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Omer Ben-Porat , Moshe Tennenholtz

This paper examines replication portfolio construction in incomplete markets - a key problem in financial engineering with applications in pricing, hedging, balance sheet management, and energy storage planning. We model this as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-09 Matteo Maggiolo , Giuseppe Nuti , Miroslav Štrupl , Oleg Szehr

In recent years, much progress has been made in computer Go and most of the results have been obtained thanks to search algorithms (Monte Carlo Tree Search) and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). In this paper, we propose to use and analyze…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Brahim Driss , Jérôme Arjonilla , Hui Wang , Abdallah Saffidine , Tristan Cazenave

A natural goal in multiagent learning besides finding equilibria is to learn rationalizable behavior, where players learn to avoid iteratively dominated actions. However, even in the basic setting of multiplayer general-sum games, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Yuanhao Wang , Dingwen Kong , Yu Bai , Chi Jin

We consider a subclass of $n$-player stochastic games, in which players have their own internal state/action spaces while they are coupled through their payoff functions. It is assumed that players' internal chains are driven by independent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-23 S. Rasoul Etesami

We have developed a high-performance Chinese Chess AI that operates without reliance on search algorithms. This AI has demonstrated the capability to compete at a level commensurate with the top 0.1\% of human players. By eliminating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yu Chen , Juntong Lin , Zhichao Shu

Morpion Solitaire is a popular single player game, performed with paper and pencil. Due to its large state space (on the order of the game of Go) traditional search algorithms, such as MCTS, have not been able to find good solutions. A…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Hui Wang , Mike Preuss , Michael Emmerich , Aske Plaat

We study Bayesian learning in episodic, finite-horizon zero-sum Markov games with unknown transition and reward models. We investigate a posterior algorithm in which each player maintains a Bayesian posterior over the game model,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Chang-Wei Yueh , Andy Zhao , Ashutosh Nayyar , Rahul Jain

Infinitely repeated games can support cooperative outcomes that are not equilibria in the one-shot game. The idea is to make sure that any gains from deviating will be offset by retaliation in future rounds. However, this model of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Ratip Emin Berker , Vincent Conitzer

In this paper, several techniques for learning game state evaluation functions by reinforcement are proposed. The first is a generalization of tree bootstrapping (tree learning): it is adapted to the context of reinforcement learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Quentin Cohen-Solal

Despite the recent successes of deep neural networks in various fields such as image and speech recognition, natural language processing, and reinforcement learning, we still face big challenges in bringing the power of numeric optimization…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Fei Wang , Tiark Rompf

We present efficient algorithms for computing optimal or approximately optimal strategies in a zero-sum game for which Player I has n pure strategies and Player II has an arbitrary number of pure strategies. We assume that for any given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-21 Lisa Hellerstein , Thomas Lidbetter , Daniel Pirutinsky

We consider zero-sum stochastic games with perfect information and finitely many states and actions. The payoff is computed by a function which associates to each infinite sequence of states and actions a real number. We prove that if the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Hugo Gimbert , Edon Kelmendi

AI systems that can capture human-like behavior are becoming increasingly useful in situations where humans may want to learn from these systems, collaborate with them, or engage with them as partners for an extended duration. In order to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Reid McIlroy-Young , Russell Wang , Siddhartha Sen , Jon Kleinberg , Ashton Anderson

We study the problem of repeated play in a zero-sum game in which the payoff matrix may change, in a possibly adversarial fashion, on each round; we call these Online Matrix Games. Finding the Nash Equilibrium (NE) of a two player zero-sum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Adrian Rivera Cardoso , Jacob Abernethy , He Wang , Huan Xu

The architecture of the neural networks used in Deep Reinforcement Learning programs such as Alpha Zero or Polygames has been shown to have a great impact on the performances of the resulting playing engines. For example the use of residual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Tristan Cazenave

We consider online learning in multi-player smooth monotone games. Existing algorithms have limitations such as (1) being only applicable to strongly monotone games; (2) lacking the no-regret guarantee; (3) having only asymptotic or slow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yang Cai , Weiqiang Zheng

This paper considers repeated games in which one player has more information about the game than the other players. In particular, we investigate repeated two-player zero-sum games where only the column player knows the payoff matrix A of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Le Cong Dinh , Long Tran-Thanh , Tri-Dung Nguyen , Alain B. Zemkoho

This paper introduces ZeusAI, an artificial intelligence system developed to play the board game 7 Wonders Duel. Inspired by the AlphaZero reinforcement learning algorithm, ZeusAI relies on a combination of Monte Carlo Tree Search and a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Giovanni Paolini , Lorenzo Moreschini , Francesco Veneziano , Alessandro Iraci