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Quitting games are one of the simplest stochastic games in which at any stage each player has only two possible actions, continue and quit. The game ends as soon as at least one player chooses to quit. The players then receive a payoff,…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-01-13 Katharina Fischer

In this paper, we consider a partial observed two-person zero-sum stochastic differential game problem where the system is governed by a stochastic differential equation of mean-field type. Under standard assumptions on the coefficients,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Maoning Tang , Qingxin Meng

We give an algorithm for solving stochastic parity games with almost-sure winning conditions on {\it lossy channel systems}, under the constraint that both players are restricted to finite-memory strategies. First, we describe a general…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Parosh Aziz Abdulla , Lorenzo Clemente , Richard Mayr , Sven Sandberg

We provide a direct, elementary proof for the existence of $\lim_{\lambda\to 0} v_{\lambda}$, where $v_{\lambda}$ is the value of a $\lambda$-discounted finite two-person zero-sum stochastic game.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-14 Miquel Oliu-Barton

We consider a non-atomic congestion game where each decision maker performs selfish optimization over states of a common MDP. The decision makers optimize for their own expected costs, and influence each other through congestion effects on…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Sarah H. Q. Li , Daniel Calderone , Lillian Ratliff , Behcet Acikmese

In this paper, we consider two-player zero-sum matrix and stochastic games and develop learning dynamics that are payoff-based, convergent, rational, and symmetric between the two players. Specifically, the learning dynamics for matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Zaiwei Chen , Kaiqing Zhang , Eric Mazumdar , Asuman Ozdaglar , Adam Wierman

We consider a stochastic game with partial, asymmetric and non-classical information, where the agents are trying to acquire as many available opportunities/locks as possible. Agents have access only to local information, the information…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Vartika Singh , Veeraruna Kavitha

We study the asymptotic value of a frequency-dependent zero-sum game with separable payoff following a differential approach. The stage payoffs in such games depend on the current actions and on a linear function of the frequency of actions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Joseph Abdou , Nikolaos Pnevmatikos

In this paper, we study nonzero-sum separable games, which are continuous games whose payoffs take a sum-of-products form. Included in this subclass are all finite games and polynomial games. We investigate the structure of equilibria in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-26 Noah D. Stein , Asuman Ozdaglar , Pablo A. Parrilo

Understanding the strategic behavior of miners in a blockchain is of great importance for its proper operation. A common model for mining games considers an infinite time horizon, with players optimizing asymptotic average objectives.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Alejandro Jofré , Angel Pardo , David Salas , Victor Verdugo , José Verschae

Two-player stochastic games are games with two 2 players and a randomised entity called "nature". A natural question to ask in this framework is the existence of strategies that ensure that an event happens with probability 1 (almost-sure…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Youssouf Oualhadj , Léo Tible , Daniele Varacca

The standard Hotelling model assumes that the stock of an exhaustible resource is known. We expand on the model by Arrow and Chang that introduced stochastic discoveries and for the first time completely solve such a model using impulse…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-03-04 Ivar Ekeland , Wolfram Schlenker , Peter Tankov , Brian Wright

This paper studies how improved monitoring affects the limit equilibrium payoff set for stochastic games with imperfect public monitoring. We introduce a simple generalization of Blackwell garbling called weighted garbling in order to…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-11 Daehyun Kim , Ichiro Obara

This paper examines the impact of agents' myopic optimization on the efficiency of systems comprised by many selfish agents. In contrast to standard congestion games where agents interact in a one-shot fashion, in our model each agent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Yunpeng Li , Antonis Dimakis , Costas A. Courcoubetis

We study a static game played by a finite number of agents, in which agents are assigned independent and identically distributed random types and each agent minimizes its objective function by choosing from a set of admissible actions that…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-08 Daniel Lacker , Kavita Ramanan

We consider a stochastic tournament game in which each player is rewarded based on her rank in terms of the completion time of her own task and is subject to cost of effort. When players are homogeneous and the rewards are purely rank…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-02 Erhan Bayraktar , Jakša Cvitanić , Yuchong Zhang

This paper proves several Tauberian theorems for general iterations of operators, and provides two applications to zero-sum stochastic games where the total payoff is a weighted sum of the stage payoffs. The first application is to provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-09 Bruno Ziliotto

We consider a non-cooperative constrained stochastic games with N players with the following special structure. With each player there is an associated controlled Markov chain. The transition probabilities of the i-th Markov chain depend…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 E. Altman , K. Avrachenkov , N. Bonneau , M. Debbah , R. El-Azouzi , D. Sadoc Menasche

We investigate a two-player zero-sum stochastic differential game in which one of the players has more information on the game than his opponent. We show how to construct numerical schemes for the value function of this game, which is given…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-18 Christine Grün

A Dynkin game is a zero-sum, stochastic stopping game between two players where either player can stop the game at any time for an observable payoff. Typically the payoff process of the max-player is assumed to be smaller than the payoff…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Ivan Guo