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We consider a class of smooth $N$-player noncooperative games, where player objectives are expectation-valued and potentially nonconvex. In such a setting, we consider the largely open question of efficiently computing a suitably defined…

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Best-response (BR) schemes represent an important avenue for learning equilibria in noncooperative games. However, extant rate guarantees for BR schemes generally necessitate stringent smoothness requirements on player objectives and the…

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In a graphical game agents play with their neighbors on a graph to achieve an appropriate state of equilibrium. Here relevant problems are characterizing the equilibrium set and discovering efficient algorithms to find such an equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-06 A. Ramezanpour , J. Realpe-Gomez , R. Zecchina

This paper investigates Nash equilibrium (NE) seeking problems for noncooperative games over multi-players networks with finite bandwidth communication. A distributed quantized algorithm is presented, which consists of local gradient play,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Ziqin Chen , Ji Ma , Shu Liang , Li Li

In this paper, we study the phase transition behavior emerging from the interactions among multiple agents in the presence of noise. We propose a simple discrete-time model in which a group of non-mobile agents form either a fixed connected…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-10-21 Jialing Liu , Vikas Yadav , Hullas Sehgal , Joshua M. Olson , Haifeng Liu , Nicola Elia

We study multiplayer quantitative reachability games played on a finite directed graph, where the objective of each player is to reach his target set of vertices as quickly as possible. Instead of the well-known notion of Nash equilibrium…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Thomas Brihaye , Véronique Bruyère , Aline Goeminne , Jean-François Raskin , Marie van den Bogaard

We study the complexity of computing equilibria in binary public goods games on undirected graphs. In such a game, players correspond to vertices in a graph and face a binary choice of performing an action, or not. Each player's decision…

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The interplay between exploration and exploitation in competitive multi-agent learning is still far from being well understood. Motivated by this, we study smooth Q-learning, a prototypical learning model that explicitly captures the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Stefanos Leonardos , Georgios Piliouras , Kelly Spendlove

We study how the structure of the interaction graph of a game affects the existence of pure Nash equilibria. In particular, for a fixed interaction graph, we are interested in whether there are pure Nash equilibria arising when random…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-11-13 Constantinos Daskalakis , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Elchanan Mossel

We have studied an evolutionary prisoner's dilemma game with players located on two types of random regular graphs with a degree of 4. The analysis is focused on the effects of payoffs and noise (temperature) on the maintenance of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jeromos Vukov , György Szabó , Attila Szolnoki

We address quantum spatial search on graphs and its implementation by continuous-time quantum walks in the presence of dynamical noise. In particular, we focus on search on the complete graph and on the star graph of order $N$, proving that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-29 Marco Cattaneo , Matteo A. C. Rossi , Matteo G. A. Paris , Sabrina Maniscalco

Coordination games have been of interest to game theorists, economists, and ecologists for many years to study such problems as the emergence of local conventions and the evolution of cooperative behavior. Approaches for understanding the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-09 John S. McAlister , Nina H. Fefferman

We study the exploration-exploitation trade-off for large multiplayer coordination games where players strategise via Q-Learning, a common learning framework in multi-agent reinforcement learning. Q-Learning is known to have two…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Desmond Chan , Bart De Keijzer , Tobias Galla , Stefanos Leonardos , Carmine Ventre

A quantum game in the Eisert scheme is defined by the payoff matrix, plus some quantum entanglement parameters. In the symmetric nonzero-sum 2x2 games, the relevant features of the game are given by two parameters in the payoff matrix, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Álvaro Francisco Huertas-Rosero

Quantum game theory lays a foundation for understanding the interaction of people using quantum computers with conflicting interests. Recently Zhang proposed a simple yet rich model to study quantum strategic games, and addressed some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-27 Zhaohui Wei , Shengyu Zhang

Several notions of game enjoy a Nash-like notion of equilibrium without guarantee of existence. There are different ways of weakening a definition of Nash-like equilibrium in order to guarantee the existence of a weakened equilibrium.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-12-11 Stéphane Le Roux

Modelling agent preferences has applications in a range of fields including economics and increasingly, artificial intelligence. These preferences are not always known and thus may need to be estimated from observed behavior, in which case…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Daniel Chui , Jason Hartline , James R. Wright

In this paper, we study finite-agent linear-quadratic games on graphs. Specifically, we propose a comprehensive framework that extends the existing literature by incorporating heterogeneous and interpretable player interactions. Compared to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Ruimeng Hu , Jihao Long , Haosheng Zhou

A systematic theory is introduced that describes stochastic effects in game theory. In a biological context, such effects are relevant for the evolution of finite populations with frequency-dependent selection. They are characterized by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Lassig

Coordination games describe social or economic interactions in which the adoption of a common strategy has a higher payoff. They are classically used to model the spread of conventions, behaviors, and technologies in societies. Here we…

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