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On playing video games, different players usually have their own playstyles. Recently, there have been great improvements for the video game AIs on the playing strength. However, past researches for analyzing the behaviors of players still…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Chiu-Chou Lin , Wei-Chen Chiu , I-Chen Wu

This paper presents a robust reinforcement learning algorithm called robust deterministic policy gradient (RDPG), which reformulates the H-infinity control problem as a two-player zero-sum dynamic game between a user and an adversary. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Taeho Lee , Donghwan Lee

Finding Nash equilibria in two-player zero-sum continuous games is a central problem in machine learning, e.g. for training both GANs and robust models. The existence of pure Nash equilibria requires strong conditions which are not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Carles Domingo-Enrich , Samy Jelassi , Arthur Mensch , Grant Rotskoff , Joan Bruna

Can deception exist in differential games? We provide a case study for a Turret-Attacker differential game, where two Attackers seek to score points by reaching a target region while a Turret tries to minimize the score by aligning itself…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Daigo Shishika , Alexander Von Moll , Dipankar Maity , Michael Dorothy

Domain generalization (DG) tends to alleviate the poor generalization capability of deep neural networks by learning model with multiple source domains. A classical solution to DG is domain augmentation, the common belief of which is that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Fangrui Lv , Jian Liang , Shuang Li , Jinming Zhang , Di Liu

In this paper, we analyze the numerics of common algorithms for training Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Using the formalism of smooth two-player games we analyze the associated gradient vector field of GAN training objectives. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Lars Mescheder , Sebastian Nowozin , Andreas Geiger

This paper addresses the problem of steering a discrete-time linear dynamical system from an initial Gaussian distribution to a final distribution in a game-theoretic setting. One of the two players strives to minimize a quadratic payoff,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Venkata Ramana Makkapati , Tanmay Rajpurohit , Kazuhide Okamoto , Panagiotis Tsiotras

This paper provides a framework for deriving a new set of necessary conditions for adverse control problems among two players. The distinguish feature of such problems is that the first player has a priori knowledge on the second player…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Michele Palladino

Multistage robust optimization problems can be interpreted as two-person zero-sum games between two players. We exploit this game-like nature and utilize a game tree search in order to solve quantified integer programs (QIPs). In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Michael Hartisch

When machine learning models encounter data which is out of the distribution on which they were trained they have a tendency to behave poorly, most prominently over-confidence in erroneous predictions. Such behaviours will have disastrous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Jack Dymond

Grokking is the phenomenon whereby, unlike the training performance, which peaks early in the training process, the test/generalization performance of a model stagnates over arbitrarily many epochs and then suddenly jumps to usually close…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ali Saheb Pasand , Elvis Dohmatob

Regularization is a widely recognized technique in mathematical optimization. It can be used to smooth out objective functions, refine the feasible solution set, or prevent overfitting in machine learning models. Due to its simplicity and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Filip Nikolovski , Irena Stojkovska , Katerina Hadzi-Velkova Saneva , Zoran Hadzi-Velkov

This paper is concerned with a new type of differential game problems of forwardbackward stochastic systems. There are three distinguishing features: Firstly, our game systems are forward-backward doubly stochastic differential equations,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-09 Eddie C. M. Hui , Hua Xiao

Deep learning models can reveal sensitive information about individual training examples, and while differential privacy (DP) provides guarantees restricting such leakage, it also alters optimization dynamics in poorly understood ways. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ayana Hussain , Ricky Fang

We study the gradient descent (GD) dynamics of a depth-2 linear neural network with a single input and output. We show that GD converges at an explicit linear rate to a global minimum of the training loss, even with a large stepsize --…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Pierfrancesco Beneventano , Blake Woodworth

This study explores the vulnerability of direct data driven control, particularly in the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem, to adversarial perturbations in offline collected data. We focus on stealthy attacks that subtly alter…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Hampei Sasahara

In this paper, we investigate how randomness and uncertainty influence learning in games. Specifically, we examine a perturbed variant of the dynamics of "follow-the-regularized-leader" (FTRL), where the players' payoff observations and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Pierre-Louis Cauvin , Davide Legacci , Panayotis Mertikopoulos

Hindsight rationality is an approach to playing general-sum games that prescribes no-regret learning dynamics for individual agents with respect to a set of deviations, and further describes jointly rational behavior among multiple agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Dustin Morrill , Ryan D'Orazio , Marc Lanctot , James R. Wright , Michael Bowling , Amy R. Greenwald

Game theory studies situations in which strategic players can modify the state of a given system, due to the absence of a central authority. Solution concepts, such as Nash equilibrium, are defined to predict the outcome of such situations.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-08 Diodato Ferraioli , Paul W. Goldberg , Carmine Ventre

How does system-level information impact the ability of an adversary to degrade performance in a networked control system? How does the complexity of an adversary's strategy affect its ability to degrade performance? This paper focuses on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Keith Paarporn , Brian Canty , Philip N. Brown , Mahnoosh Alizadeh , Jason R. Marden