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In the Colonel Blotto game, which was initially introduced by Borel in 1921, two colonels simultaneously distribute their troops across different battlefields. The winner of each battlefield is determined independently by a winner-take-all…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Soheil Behnezhad , Sina Dehghani , Mahsa Derakhshan , MohammadTaghi HajiAghayi , Saeed Seddighin

Blotto Games are a popular model of multi-dimensional strategic resource allocation. Two players allocate resources in different battlefields in an auction setting. While competition with equal budgets is well understood, little is known…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Aymeric Vie

Social media platforms are responsible for collecting and disseminating vast quantities of content. Recently, however, they have also begun enlisting users in helping annotate this content - for example, to provide context or label…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Kate Donahue , Jon Kleinberg

Many efficient algorithms have been designed to recover Nash equilibria of various classes of finite games. Special classes of continuous games with infinite strategy spaces, such as polynomial games, can be solved by semidefinite…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Lukáš Adam , Rostislav Horčík , Tomáš Kasl , Tomáš Kroupa

Colonel Blotto games with discrete strategy spaces effectively illustrate the intricate nature of multidimensional strategic reasoning. This paper studies the equilibrium set of such games where, in line with prior experimental work, the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Christian Ewerhart , Stanisław Kaźmierowski

A variety of social, economic, and political interactions have long been modelled after Blotto games. In this paper, we introduce a general model of dynamic $n$-player Blotto contests. The players have asymmetric resources, and the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-07-27 Nejat Anbarcı , Kutay Cingiz , Mehmet S. Ismail

We study equilibrium strategies and the value of the asymmetric variant of the discrete Colonel Blotto game with $K \geq 2$ battlefields, $B \geq 1$ resources of the weaker player and $A > B$ resources of the stronger player. We derive…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-17 Marcin Dziubiński

In this paper, we investigate informational asymmetries in the Colonel Blotto game, a game-theoretic model of competitive resource allocation between two players over a set of battlefields. The battlefield valuations are subject to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Keith Paarporn , Rahul Chandan , Mahnoosh Alizadeh , Jason R. Marden

This paper provides theoretical bounds for empirical game theoretical analysis of complex multi-agent interactions. We provide insights in the empirical meta game showing that a Nash equilibrium of the meta-game is an approximate Nash…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Karl Tuyls , Julien Perolat , Marc Lanctot , Joel Z Leibo , Thore Graepel

In this work we successfully present a quantum version of the multiplayer Colonel Blotto game. We find that players with access to the quantum strategies has a advantage over the classical ones. The payoff is invariant under the order of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 J. Naskar , A. C. Maioli

The Prisoner's Dilemma, zero-sum games, LQR team problems, and differential games have shaped game theory in controls for decades, but the field's most pressing adversarial challenges demand a richer framework, and its name is Colonel…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Keith Paarporn , Jason R. Marden

The Colonel Blotto game is a renowned resource allocation problem with a long-standing literature in game theory (almost 100 years). However, its scope of application is still restricted by the lack of studies on the incomplete-information…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Dong Quan Vu , Patrick Loiseau , Alonso Silva

The General Lotto game is a popular variant of the famous Colonel Blotto game, in which two opposing players allocate limited resources over many battlefields. In this paper, we consider incomplete and asymmetric information formulations…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Keith Paarporn , Rahul Chandan , Mahnoosh Alizadeh , Jason R. Marden

Resource allocation problems across multiple contests are ubiquitous in adversarial settings, from military operations to market competition. While Colonel Blotto and General Lotto games have provided valuable theoretical foundations for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Keith Paarporn , Jason R. Marden

In order to understand if and how strategic resource allocation can constrain the structure of pair-wise competition outcomes in competitive human competitions we introduce a new multiplayer resource allocation game, the Population Lotto…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Giovanni Artiglio , Aiden Youkhana , Joel Nishimura

This paper introduces a novel class of multi-stage resource allocation games that model real-world scenarios in which profitability depends on the balance between supply and demand, and where higher resource investment leads to greater…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Marko Maljkovic , Gustav Nilsson , Nikolas Geroliminis

When a centrally operated ride-hailing company considers to enter a market already served by another company, it has to make a strategic decision about how to distribute its fleet among different regions in the area. This decision will be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Marko Maljkovic , Gustav Nilsson , Nikolas Geroliminis

This work addresses competitive resource allocation in a sequential setting, where two players allocate resources across objects or locations of shared interest. Departing from the simultaneous Colonel Blotto game, our framework introduces…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Omkar Thakoor , Rajgopal Kannan , Victor Prasanna

We consider a game in which each player must find a compromise between more daring strategies that carry a high risk for him to be eliminated, and more cautious ones that, however, reduce his final score. For two symmetric players this game…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-24 H. J. Hilhorst , C. Appert-Rolland

We study the problem of game-theoretic robot allocation where two players strategically allocate robots to compete for multiple sites of interest. Robots possess offensive or defensive capabilities to interfere and weaken their opponents to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zijian An , Lifeng Zhou