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Evolutionary game theory is an abstract and simple, but very powerful way to model evolutionary dynamics. Even complex biological phenomena can sometimes be abstracted to simple two-player games. But often, the interaction between several…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2011-06-22 Chaitanya S. Gokhale , Arne Traulsen

Controlling evolutionary game-theoretic dynamics is a problem of paramount importance for the systems and control community, with several applications spanning from social science to engineering. Here, we study a population of individuals…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Lorenzo Zino , Mengbin Ye , Alessandro Rizzo , Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore

Genetic Programming is an evolutionary algorithm that generates computer programs, or mathematical expressions, to solve complex problems. In this Guide, we demonstrate how to use Genetic Programming to develop surrogate models to mitigate…

We investigate an evolutionary multi-objective approach to good micro for real-time strategy games. Good micro helps a player win skirmishes and is one of the keys to developing better real-time strategy game play. In prior work, the same…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Rahul Dubey , Joseph Ghantous , Sushil Louis , Siming Liu

The multiplication game is a two-person game in which each player chooses a positive integer without knowledge of the other player's number. The two numbers are then multiplied together and the first digit of the product determines the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Kent E. Morrison

The Variation Evolving Method (VEM) that originates from the continuous-time dynamics stability theory seeks the optimal solutions with variation evolution principle. After establishing the first and the second evolution equations within…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Sheng Zhang , Fei Liao , Kai-Feng He

We present insights and empirical results from an extensive numerical study of the evolutionary dynamics of the iterated prisoner's dilemma. Fixation probabilities for Moran processes are obtained for all pairs of 164 different strategies…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Vincent Knight , Marc Harper , Nikoleta E. Glynatsi , Owen Campbell

Strategy iteration is a technique frequently used for two-player games in order to determine the winner or compute payoffs, but to the best of our knowledge no general framework for strategy iteration has been considered. Inspired by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Paolo Baldan , Richard Eggert , Barbara König , Tommaso Padoan

Evolutionary game theory, encompassing discrete, continuous, and mixed strategies, is pivotal for understanding cooperation dynamics. Discrete strategies involve deterministic actions with a fixed probability of one, whereas continuous…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-13 Zehua Si , Zhixue He , Chen Shen , Jun Tanimoto

In this paper we study the computational complexity of computing an evolutionary stable strategy (ESS) in multi-player symmetric games. For two-player games, deciding existence of an ESS is complete for {\Sigma} 2 , the second level of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Manon Blanc , Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen

Recent advancements in algorithms for sequential decision-making under imperfect information have shown remarkable success in large games such as limit- and no-limit poker. These algorithms traditionally formalize the games using the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Vojtěch Kovařík , David Milec , Michal Šustr , Dominik Seitz , Viliam Lisý

Evolutionary game theory is a powerful mathematical framework to study how intelligent individuals adjust their strategies in collective interactions. It has been widely believed that it is impossible to unilaterally control players'…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Renfei Tan , Qi Su , Bin Wu , Long Wang

In Evolutionary Game Theory (EGT), a population reaches a Nash equilibrium when none of the agents can improve its objective by solely changing its strategy on its own. Roughly speaking, this equilibrium is a protection against betrayal.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Alejandro Luque-Cerpa , Miguel A. Gutiérrez-Naranjo

Recent analysis of empirical data [F. Radicchi, A. Baronchelli & L.A.N. Amaral. PloS ONE 7, e029910 (2012)] showed that humans adopt L\'evy flight strategies when exploring the bid space in on-line auctions. A game theoretical model proved…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-06-21 Filippo Radicchi , Andrea Baronchelli

In dynamic games with shared constraints, Generalized Nash Equilibria (GNE) are often computed using the normalized solution concept, which assumes identical Lagrange multipliers for shared constraints across all players. While widely used,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Mark Pustilnik , Francesco Borrelli

Unrolled computation graphs arise in many scenarios, including training RNNs, tuning hyperparameters through unrolled optimization, and training learned optimizers. Current approaches to optimizing parameters in such computation graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Paul Vicol , Luke Metz , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

Evolutionary game theory provides a mathematical foundation for cross-disciplinary fertilization, especially for integrating ideas from artificial intelligence and game theory. Such integration offers a transparent and rigorous approach to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-05-31 Xingru Chen , Feng Fu

In this paper we present a novel approach to optimise tactical and strategic decision making in football (soccer). We model the game of football as a multi-stage game which is made up from a Bayesian game to model the pre-match decisions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Ryan Beal , Georgios Chalkiadakis , Timothy J. Norman , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn

We study a model for switching strategies in the Prisoner's Dilemma game on adaptive networks of player pairings that coevolve as players attempt to maximize their return. We use a node-based strategy model wherein each player follows one…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Hsuan-Wei Lee , Nishant Malik , Peter J. Mucha

This paper presents a new Statistical Forward Planning (SFP) method, Rolling Horizon NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (rhNEAT). Unlike traditional Rolling Horizon Evolution, where an evolutionary algorithm is in charge of evolving a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Diego Perez-Liebana , Muhammad Sajid Alam , Raluca D. Gaina