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The paper studies the convergence properties of (continuous) best-response dynamics from game theory. Despite their fundamental role in game theory, best-response dynamics are poorly understood in many games of interest due to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-08 Brian Swenson , Ryan Murray , Soummya Kar

Game-theoretic inverse learning is the problem of inferring a player's objectives from their actions. We formulate an inverse learning problem in a Stackelberg game between a leader and a follower, where each player's action is the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-15 William Ward , Yue Yu , Jacob Levy , Negar Mehr , David Fridovich-Keil , Ufuk Topcu

This work investigates the problem of multi-agents trajectory prediction. Prior approaches lack of capability of capturing fine-grained dependencies among coordinated agents. In this paper, we propose a spatial-temporal trajectory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Ding Ding , H. Howie Huang

This paper proposes an optimization-based approach to predict trajectories of autonomous race cars. We assume that the observed trajectory is the result of an optimization problem that trades off path progress against acceleration and jerk…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Rudolf Reiter , Florian Messerer , Markus Schratter , Daniel Watzenig , Moritz Diehl

In this paper, we propose a novel trajectory optimization algorithm for mobile manipulators under end-effector path, collision avoidance and various kinematic constraints. Our key contribution lies in showing how this highly non-linear and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Arun Kumar Singh , Andrei Ahonen , Reza Ghabcheloo , Andreas Muller

Noncooperative game-theoretic tools have been increasingly used to study many important resource allocation problems in communications, networking, smart grids, and portfolio optimization. In this paper, we consider a general class of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Gesualdo Scutari , Francisco Facchinei , Jong-Shi Pang , Daniel P. Palomar

In noncooperative Nash games, equilibria are often inefficient. This is exemplified by the Prisoner's Dilemma and was first provably shown in the 1980s. Since then, understanding the quality of Nash equilibrium (NE) received considerable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Yuyang Qiu , Farzad Yousefian , Brian Zhang

This paper presents a modeling and optimization framework to compute the minimum-lap-time spatial trajectory and powertrain operation of racing cars in a computationally efficient fashion. Specifically, we first derive a quasi-steady-state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Erik van den Eshof , Wytze de Vries , Jorn van Kampen , Mauro Salazar

We consider a scenario where a team of two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) pursue an evader UAV within an urban environment. Each agent has a limited view of their environment where buildings can occlude their field-of-view. Additionally,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Addison Kalanther , Daniel Bostwick , Chinmay Maheshwari , Shankar Sastry

Learning-based control algorithms require data collection with abundant supervision for training. Safe exploration algorithms ensure the safety of this data collection process even when only partial knowledge is available. We present a new…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Yashwanth Kumar Nakka , Anqi Liu , Guanya Shi , Anima Anandkumar , Yisong Yue , Soon-Jo Chung

Trajectory optimization methods provide an efficient and reliable means of computing feasible trajectories in nonconvex solution spaces. However, a well-known limitation of these algorithms is that they are inherently local in nature, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Justin Ganiban , Natalia Pavlasek , Behcet Acikmese

We consider a class of hierarchical noncooperative $N$-player games where the $i$th player solves a parametrized stochastic mathematical program with equilibrium constraints (MPEC) with the caveat that the implicit form of the $i$th…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Shisheng Cui , Uday V. Shanbhag

In a typical stochastic multi-armed bandit problem, the objective is often to maximize the expected sum of rewards over some time horizon $T$. While the choice of a strategy that accomplishes that is optimal with no additional information,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Reda Alami , Mohammed Mahfoud , Mastane Achab

This work considers a multiplayer reach-avoid game between two adversarial teams in a general convex domain which consists of a target region and a play region. The evasion team, initially lying in the play region, aims to send as many its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Rui Yan , Zongying Shi , Yisheng Zhong

We consider a sequential decision-making problem where an agent can take one action at a time and each action has a stochastic temporal extent, i.e., a new action cannot be taken until the previous one is finished. Upon completion, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-26 P Sharoff , Nishant A. Mehta , Ravi Ganti

We develop an approach for two player constraint zero-sum and nonzero-sum stochastic differential games, which are modeled by Markov regime-switching jump-diffusion processes. We provide the relations between a usual stochastic optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Emel Savku

This article introduces a numerical algorithm that serves as a preliminary step toward solving continuous-time model predictive control (MPC) problems directly without explicit time-discretization. The chief ingredients of the underlying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Souvik Das , Siddhartha Ganguly , Muthyala Anjali , Debasish Chatterjee

We consider concurrent stochastic games played on graphs with reachability and safety objectives. These games can be solved by value iteration as well as strategy iteration, each of them yielding a sequence of under-approximations of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Julia Eisentraut , Jan Křetínský , Alexej Rotar

We introduce the notion of regularized Bayesian best response (RBBR) learning dynamic in heterogeneous population games. We obtain such a dynamic via perturbation by an arbitrary lower semicontinuous, strongly convex regularizer in Bayesian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Sayan Mukherjee , Souvik Roy

This paper addresses a two-player target defense game in the $n$-dimensional Euclidean space where an attacker attempts to enter a closed convex target set while a defender strives to capture the attacker beforehand. We provide a complete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-08 Yoonjae Lee , Efstathios Bakolas