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We develop a scheme based on active learning to compute equilibria in a generalized Nash equilibrium problem (GNEP). Specifically, an external observer (or entity), with little knowledge on the multi-agent process at hand, collects sensible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Barbara Franci , Filippo Fabiani , Alberto Bemporad

In this work, we investigate the distributed generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) seeking problems for $N$-coalition games with inequality constraints. First, we study the scenario where each agent in a coalition has full information of all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Chao Sun , Guoqiang Hu

We present a new, distributed method to compute approximate Nash equilibria in bimatrix games. In contrast to previous approaches that analyze the two payoff matrices at the same time (for example, by solving a single LP that combines the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Artur Czumaj , Argyrios Deligkas , Michail Fasoulakis , John Fearnley , Marcin Jurdziński , Rahul Savani

One key in real-life Nash equilibrium applications is to calibrate players' cost functions. To leverage the approximation ability of neural networks, we proposed a general framework for optimizing and learning Nash equilibrium using neural…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Di Zhang , Wei Gu , Qing Jin

Nash Equilibrium and its robust counterpart, Distributionally Robust Nash Equilibrium (DRNE), are fundamental problems in game theory with applications in economics, engineering, and machine learning. This paper addresses the problem of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Zeinab Alizadeh , Azadeh Farsi , Afrooz Jalilzadeh

Motivated by Carbon Emissions Trading Schemes, Treasury Auctions, Procurement Auctions, and Wholesale Electricity Markets, which all involve the auctioning of homogeneous multiple units, we consider the problem of learning how to bid in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Rigel Galgana , Negin Golrezaei

We consider a multi-agent noncooperative game with agents' objective functions being affected by uncertainty. Following a data driven paradigm, we represent uncertainty by means of scenarios and seek a robust Nash equilibrium solution. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Filiberto Fele , Kostas Margellos

Auctions are important mechanisms extensively implemented in various markets, e.g., search engines' keyword auctions, antique auctions, etc. Finding an optimal auction mechanism is extremely difficult due to the constraints of imperfect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Jiayin Liu , Chenglong Zhang

Designing an incentive compatible auction that maximizes expected revenue is a central problem in Auction Design. Theoretical approaches to the problem have hit some limits in the past decades and analytical solutions are known for only a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jad Rahme , Samy Jelassi , Joan Bruna , S. Matthew Weinberg

We cast the problem of combinatorial auction design in a Bayesian framework in order to incorporate prior information into the auction process and minimize the number of rounds to convergence. We first develop a generative model of agent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Gianluca Brero , Sébastien Lahaie

This paper considers the distributed strategy design for Nash equilibrium (NE) seeking in multi-cluster games under a partial-decision information scenario. In the considered game, there are multiple clusters and each cluster consists of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Min Meng , Xiuxian Li

In this paper, we investigate the seeking of Nash equilibrium (NE) in a non-cooperative quadratic game where all agents exchange their delayed strategy information with their neighbors. To extend best-response algorithms to the delayed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Kaichen Jiang , Yuyue Yan , Mingda Yue , Yuhu Wu

Robots navigating in crowded areas should negotiate free space with humans rather than fully controlling collision avoidance, as this can lead to freezing behavior. Game theory provides a framework for the robot to reason about potential…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Max Muchen Sun , Francesca Baldini , Katie Hughes , Peter Trautman , Todd Murphey

Much work has been done on the computation of market equilibria. However due to strategic play by buyers, it is not clear whether these are actually observed in the market. Motivated by the observation that a buyer may derive a better…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Bharat Adsul , Ch. Sobhan Babu , Jugal Garg , Ruta Mehta , Milind Sohoni

We study a general class of repeated auctions, such as the ones found in electricity markets, as multi-agent games between the bidders. In such a repeated setting, bidders can adapt their strategies online based on the data observed in the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Orcun Karaca , Pier Giuseppe Sessa , Anna Leidi , Maryam Kamgarpour

We investigate Nash equilibrium learning in a competitive Markov Game (MG) environment, where multiple agents compete, and multiple Nash equilibria can exist. In particular, for an oligopolistic dynamic pricing environment, exact Nash…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Larkin Liu

We address the generalized Nash equilibrium seeking problem in a partial-decision information scenario, where each agent can only exchange information with some neighbors, although its cost function possibly depends on the strategies of all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Mattia Bianchi , Giuseppe Belgioioso , Sergio Grammatico

Our paper concerns the computation of Nash equilibria of first-price auctions with correlated values. While there exist several equilibrium computation methods for auctions with independent values, the correlation of the bidders' values…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Benjamin Heymann , Panayotis Mertikopoulos

Recently, remarkable progress has been made by approximating Nash equilibrium (NE), correlated equilibrium (CE), and coarse correlated equilibrium (CCE) through function approximation that trains a neural network to predict equilibria from…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Zhijian Duan , Yunxuan Ma , Xiaotie Deng

Contemporary applications of machine learning in two-team e-sports and the superior expressivity of multi-agent generative adversarial networks raise important and overlooked theoretical questions regarding optimization in two-team games.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Fivos Kalogiannis , Ioannis Panageas , Emmanouil-Vasileios Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis