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This paper studies optimal matroid partitioning problems for various objective functions. In the problem, we are given a finite set $E$ and $k$ weighted matroids $(E, \mathcal{I}_i, w_i)$, $i = 1, \dots, k$, and our task is to find a…

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In this paper, we propose a provably convergent and practical framework for multi-objective reinforcement learning with max-min criterion. From a game-theoretic perspective, we reformulate max-min multi-objective reinforcement learning as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Woohyeon Byeon , Giseung Park , Jongseong Chae , Amir Leshem , Youngchul Sung

We study competitive resource allocation problems in which players distribute their demands integrally on a set of resources subject to player-specific submodular capacity constraints. Each player has to pay for each unit of demand a cost…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-30 Tobias Harks , Max Klimm , Britta Peis

Combinatorial optimization algorithms for graph problems are usually designed afresh for each new problem with careful attention by an expert to the problem structure. In this work, we develop a new framework to solve any combinatorial…

Two-player zero-sum games are a well-established model for synthesising controllers that optimise some performance criterion. In such games one player represents the controller, while the other describes the (adversarial) environment, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-04 Marta Kwiatkowska , Gethin Norman , Ashutosh Trivedi

We study the sensitivity of optimal solutions of convex separable optimization problems over an integral polymatroid base polytope with respect to parameters determining both the cost of each element and the polytope. Under convexity and a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Tobias Harks , Max Klimm , Britta Peis

We analyze the problem of computing a correlated equilibrium that optimizes some objective (e.g., social welfare). Papadimitriou and Roughgarden [2008] gave a sufficient condition for the tractability of this problem; however, this…

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In cooperative game theory, the primary focus is the equitable allocation of payoffs or costs among agents. However, in the practical applications of cooperative games, accurately representing games is challenging. In such cases, using an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Soh Kumabe , Yuichi Yoshida

Given a connected graph on whose edges we can build roads to connect the nodes, a number of agents hold possibly different perspectives on which edges should be selected by assigning different edge weights. Our task is to build a minimum…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Bo Li , Xiaowei Wu , Chenyang Xu , Ruilong Zhang

This paper investigates value function approximation in the context of zero-sum Markov games, which can be viewed as a generalization of the Markov decision process (MDP) framework to the two-agent case. We generalize error bounds from MDPs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Michail Lagoudakis , Ron Parr

We show that finding lexicographically minimal $n$ bases in a matroid can be done in polynomial time in the oracle model. This follows from a more general result that the shifted problem over a matroid can be solved in polynomial time as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Asaf Levin , Shmuel Onn

The AlphaZero algorithm has achieved superhuman performance in two-player, deterministic, zero-sum games where perfect information of the game state is available. This success has been demonstrated in Chess, Shogi, and Go where learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Nick Petosa , Tucker Balch

Two-team zero-sum games are one of the most important paradigms in game theory. In this paper, we focus on finding an unexploitable equilibrium in large team games. An unexploitable equilibrium is a worst-case policy, where members in the…

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We investigate a new class of congestion games, called Totally Unimodular (TU) Congestion Games, where the players' strategies are binary vectors inside polyhedra defined by totally unimodular constraint matrices. Network congestion games…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Alberto Del Pia , Michael Ferris , Carla Michini

We study an optimal targeting problem for super-modular games with binary actions and finitely many players. The considered problem consists in the selection of a subset of players of minimum size such that, when the actions of these…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Giacomo Como , Stéphane Durand , Fabio Fagnani

In this work we address a game theoretic variant of the shortest path problem, in which two decision makers (players) move together along the edges of a graph from a given starting vertex to a given destination. The two players take turns…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Andreas Darmann , Ulrich Pferschy , Joachim Schauer

Adversarial multiplayer games are an important object of study in multiagent learning. In particular, polymatrix zero-sum games are a multiplayer setting where Nash equilibria are known to be efficiently computable. Towards understanding…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Alexandros Hollender , Gilbert Maystre , Sai Ganesh Nagarajan

Many combinatorial optimization problems can be formulated as the search for a subgraph that satisfies certain properties and minimizes the total weight. We assume here that the vertices correspond to points in a metric space and can take…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Marin Bougeret , Jérémy Omer , Michael Poss

We introduce the parametric matroid one-interdiction problem. Given a matroid, each element of its ground set is associated with a weight that depends linearly on a real parameter from a given parameter interval. The goal is to find, for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Nils Hausbrandt , Oliver Bachtler , Stefan Ruzika , Luca E. Schäfer

Recently the matcher game was introduced. In this game, two players create a maximal matching by one player repeatedly choosing a vertex and the other player choosing a $K_2$ containing that vertex. One player tries to minimize the result…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Anna Bachstein , Wayne Goddard , Connor Lehmacher