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Recently, in [K.R. Apt and S. Simon: Well-founded extensive games with perfect information, TARK21], we studied well-founded games, a natural extension of finite extensive games with perfect information in which all plays are finite. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Krzysztof R. Apt , Sunil Simon

One of important areas of machine learning research is zero-shot learning. It is applied when properly labeled training data set is not available. A number of zero-shot algorithms have been proposed and experimented with. However, none of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Elie Saad , Marcin Paprzycki , Maria Ganzha

The holy grail of deep learning is to come up with an automatic method to design optimal architectures for different applications. In other words, how can we effectively dimension and organize neurons along the network layers based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Thiago Serra , Christian Tjandraatmadja , Srikumar Ramalingam

AlphaZero has achieved impressive performance in deep reinforcement learning by utilizing an architecture that combines search and training of a neural network in self-play. Many researchers are looking for ways to reproduce and improve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Hui Wang , Mike Preuss , Aske Plaat

We consider deep neural networks, in which the output of each node is a quadratic function of its inputs. Similar to other deep architectures, these networks can compactly represent any function on a finite training set. The main goal of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-21 Roi Livni , Shai Shalev-Shwartz , Ohad Shamir

The behaviour of multi-agent learning in competitive settings is often considered under the restrictive assumption of a zero-sum game. Only under this strict requirement is the behaviour of learning well understood; beyond this, learning…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Aamal Hussain , Francesco Belardinelli , Georgios Piliouras

Repeated games consider a situation where multiple agents are motivated by their independent rewards throughout learning. In general, the dynamics of their learning become complex. Especially when their rewards compete with each other like…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yuma Fujimoto , Kaito Ariu , Kenshi Abe

The overarching goal of this paper is to develop a general model of the state space of AI. Given the breathtaking progress in AI research and technologies in recent years, such conceptual work is of substantial theoretical interest. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Holger Lyre

A generally intelligent agent must be able to teach itself how to solve problems in complex domains with minimal human supervision. Recently, deep reinforcement learning algorithms combined with self-play have achieved superhuman…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Stephen McAleer , Forest Agostinelli , Alexander Shmakov , Pierre Baldi

A key task in Artificial Intelligence is learning effective policies for controlling agents in unknown environments to optimize performance measures. Off-policy learning methods, like Q-learning, allow learners to make optimal decisions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Mingxuan Li , Junzhe Zhang , Elias Bareinboim

We tackle the problem of learning equilibria in simulation-based games. In such games, the players' utility functions cannot be described analytically, as they are given through a black-box simulator that can be queried to obtain noisy…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Alberto Marchesi , Francesco Trovò , Nicola Gatti

We introduce DREAM, a deep reinforcement learning algorithm that finds optimal strategies in imperfect-information games with multiple agents. Formally, DREAM converges to a Nash Equilibrium in two-player zero-sum games and to an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Eric Steinberger , Adam Lerer , Noam Brown

Large language models inevitably retain sensitive information, defined as inputs that may induce harmful generations, due to training on massive web corpora, raising concerns for privacy and safety. Existing machine unlearning methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yujie Lin , Chengyi Yang , Zhishang Xiang , Yiping Song , Jinsong Su

Going from research to production, especially for large and complex software systems, is fundamentally a hard problem. In large-scale game production, one of the main reasons is that the development environment can be very different from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Jonas Gillberg , Joakim Bergdahl , Alessandro Sestini , Andrew Eakins , Linus Gisslen

Access to a fast and easily copied forward model of a game is essential for model-based reinforcement learning and for algorithms such as Monte Carlo tree search, and is also beneficial as a source of unlimited experience data for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Chris Bamford , Simon Lucas

In a biased weak $(a,b)$ polyform achievement game, the maker and the breaker alternately mark $a,b$ previously unmarked cells on an infinite board, respectively. The maker's goal is to mark a set of cells congruent to a polyform. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-12 Ian Norris , Nandor Sieben

Since the advent of AI, games have served as progress benchmarks. Meanwhile, imperfect-information variants of chess have existed for over a century, present extreme challenges, and have been the focus of decades of AI research. Beyond…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Brian Hu Zhang , Tuomas Sandholm

Do neural networks build their representations through smooth, gradual refinement, or via more complex computational processes? We investigate this by extending the logit lens to analyze the policy network of Leela Chess Zero, a superhuman…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Elias Sandmann , Sebastian Lapuschkin , Wojciech Samek

Learning to play zero-sum games is a fundamental problem in game theory and machine learning. While significant progress has been made in minimizing external regret in the self-play settings or with full-information feedback, real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Shinji Ito , Haipeng Luo , Arnab Maiti , Taira Tsuchiya , Yue Wu

One of the key issues for imitation learning lies in making policy learned from limited samples to generalize well in the whole state-action space. This problem is much more severe in high-dimensional state environments, such as game…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Xin-Qiang Cai , Yao-Xiang Ding , Yuan Jiang , Zhi-Hua Zhou