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Two-player graph games have found numerous applications, most notably in the synthesis of reactive systems from temporal specifications, but also in verification. The relevance of infinite-state systems in these areas has lead to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Philippe Heim , Rayna Dimitrova

Considering uncertainties and disturbances is an important, yet challenging, step in successful decision making. The problem becomes more challenging in safety-constrained environments. In this paper, we propose a robust and safe trajectory…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Hassan Almubarak , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Nader Sadegh

In a Hilbert framework, we introduce continuous and discrete dynamical systems which aim at solving inclusions governed by structured monotone operators $A=\partial\Phi+B$, where $\partial\Phi$ is the subdifferential of a convex lower…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-26 Boushra Abbas , Hedy Attouch

An universal primal-dual approach of description equilibriums in large class of hierarchical congestion population games is proposed. At the very core of the approach is hierarchy of enclosed to each other transport networks. In different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Alexander Gasnikov , Evgenia Gasnikova , Sergey Matsievsky , Inna Usik

Standard stochastic control methods assume that the probability distribution of uncertain variables is available. Unfortunately, in practice, obtaining accurate distribution information is a challenging task. To resolve this issue, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Insoon Yang

The existence of a polynomial pivot rule for the simplex method for linear programming, policy iteration for Markov decision processes, and strategy improvement for parity games each are prominent open problems in their respective fields.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Yann Disser , Georg Loho , Matthew Maat , Nils Mosis

In this paper we advocate for Isaacs' method for the solution of differential games to be applied to the solution of optimal control problems. To make the argument, the vehicle employed is Pontryagin's canonical optimal control example,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Meir Pachter , Isaac E Weintraub

In this paper we consider infinite horizon discounted dynamic programming problems with finite state and control spaces, and partial state observations. We discuss an algorithm that uses multistep lookahead, truncated rollout with a known…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Sushmita Bhattacharya , Sahil Badyal , Thomas Wheeler , Stephanie Gil , Dimitri Bertsekas

Computational complexity has been a major challenge in game-theoretic model predictive control (GT-MPC), as real-time solutions to a game (e.g., Nash equilibria (NEs)) have to be computed at each sampling instant of an MPC. This challenge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Shaoqing Liu , Mushuang Liu

Bounded policy iteration is an approach to solving infinite-horizon POMDPs that represents policies as stochastic finite-state controllers and iteratively improves a controller by adjusting the parameters of each node using linear…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Eric A. Hansen

A decision rule is epsilon-minimax if it is minimax up to an additive factor epsilon. We present an algorithm for provably obtaining epsilon-minimax solutions for a class of statistical decision problems. In particular, we are interested in…

Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) have been used to formulate many decision-making problems in science and engineering. The objective is to synthesize the best decision (action selection) policies to maximize expected rewards (minimize…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-08 Mahmoud El Chamie , Behcet Acikmese

We consider network aggregative games to model and study multi-agent populations in which each rational agent is influenced by the aggregate behavior of its neighbors, as specified by an underlying network. Specifically, we examine systems…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Francesca Parise , Sergio Grammatico , Basilio Gentile , John Lygeros

In this paper we discuss policy iteration methods for approximate solution of a finite-state discounted Markov decision problem, with a focus on feature-based aggregation methods and their connection with deep reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Dimitri P. Bertsekas

We study policy optimization algorithms for computing correlated equilibria in multi-player general-sum Markov Games. Previous results achieve $O(T^{-1/2})$ convergence rate to a correlated equilibrium and an accelerated $O(T^{-3/4})$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yang Cai , Haipeng Luo , Chen-Yu Wei , Weiqiang Zheng

Synthesizing near-optimal mixed strategies for zero-sum differential games (ZSDGs) has been a longstanding challenge. Existing research mainly focuses on characterizing the theoretical value function, while the practical design of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Tao Xu , Wang Xi , Jianping He

Constrained Markov games offer a formal mathematical framework for modeling multi-agent reinforcement learning problems where the behavior of the agents is subject to constraints. In this work, we focus on the recently introduced class of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Philip Jordan , Anas Barakat , Niao He

This paper studies the finite-time horizon Markov games where the agents' dynamics are decoupled but the rewards can possibly be coupled across agents. The policy class is restricted to local policies where agents make decisions using their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Runyu Zhang , Yuyang Zhang , Rohit Konda , Bryce Ferguson , Jason Marden , Na Li

This paper deals with unconstrained discounted continuous-time Markov decision processes in Borel state and action spaces. Under some conditions imposed on the primitives, allowing unbounded transition rates and unbounded (from both above…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-03-02 Alexey Piunovskiy , Yi Zhang

This paper investigates the discrete-time asynchronous games in which noncooperative agents seek to minimize their individual cost functions. Building on the assumption of partial asynchronism, i.e., each agent updates at least once within…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Zifan Wang , Xinlei Yi , Michael M. Zavlanos , Karl H. Johansson