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This paper contributes a new way to evaluate AI. Much as one might evaluate a machine in terms of its performance at chess, this approach involves evaluating a machine in terms of its performance at a game called "MAD Chairs". At the time…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Chris Santos-Lang

We analyse the computational complexity of finding Nash equilibria in turn-based stochastic multiplayer games with omega-regular objectives. We show that restricting the search space to equilibria whose payoffs fall into a certain interval…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Michael Ummels , Dominik Wojtczak

In this paper we apply model predictive control (MPC), rollout, and reinforcement learning (RL) methodologies to computer chess. We introduce a new architecture for move selection, within which available chess engines are used as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Atharva Gundawar , Yuchao Li , Dimitri Bertsekas

A social choice procedure is modeled as a repeated Nash game between the social agents, who are communicating with each other through a social communication network modeled by an undirected graph. The agents' criteria for this game are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Athanasios-Rafail Lagos , George P. Papavassilopoulos

The opening book is an important component of a chess engine, and thus computer chess programmers have been developing automated methods to improve the quality of their books. For chess, which has a very rich opening theory, large databases…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mark Levene , Judit Bar-Ilan

Artificial intelligence has seen several breakthroughs in recent years, with games often serving as milestones. A common feature of these games is that players have perfect information. Poker is the quintessential game of imperfect…

Online multiplayer games are a popular form of social interaction, used by hundreds of millions of individuals. However, little is known about the social networks within these online games, or how they evolve over time. Understanding human…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-06-20 Sears Merritt , Aaron Clauset

Recently, there have been several high-profile achievements of agents learning to play games against humans and beat them. In this paper, we study the problem of training intelligent agents in service of game development. Unlike the agents…

We study nondeterministic strategies in parity games with the aim of computing a most permissive winning strategy. Following earlier work, we measure permissiveness in terms of the average number/weight of transitions blocked by the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Patricia Bouyer , Nicolas Markey , Jörg Olschewski , Michael Ummels

LLM agents are known to deviate from Nash equilibria in strategic interactions, but nobody has looked inside the model to understand why, or asked whether the deviation can be reversed. We do both. Working with four open-source models…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Paraskevas V. Lekeas , Giorgos Stamatopoulos

Generating competitive strategies and performing continuous motion planning simultaneously in an adversarial setting is a challenging problem. In addition, understanding the intent of other agents is crucial to deploying autonomous systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Hongrui Zheng , Zhijun Zhuang , Stephanie Wu , Shuo Yang , Rahul Mangharam

With evolutionary game theory, mathematicians, physicists and theoretical biologists usually show us beautiful figures of population dynamic patterns. 2x2 game (matching pennies game) is one of the classical cases. In this letter, we report…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-08-03 Zhijian Wang

Strategy improvement is a widely-used and well-studied class of algorithms for solving graph-based infinite games. These algorithms are parameterized by a switching rule, and one of the most natural rules is "all switches" which switches as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-22 John Fearnley , Rahul Savani

We present an algorithm that identifies the reasoning patterns of agents in a game, by iteratively examining the graph structure of its Multi-Agent Influence Diagram (MAID) representation. If the decision of an agent participates in no…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Dimitrios Antos , Avi Pfeffer

Game balancing is an important part of the (computer) game design process, in which designers adapt a game prototype so that the resulting gameplay is as entertaining as possible. In industry, the evaluation of a game is often based on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Vanessa Volz , Günter Rudolph , Boris Naujoks

It is non-trivial to design engaging and balanced sets of game rules. Modern chess has evolved over centuries, but without a similar recourse to history, the consequences of rule changes to game dynamics are difficult to predict. AlphaZero…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Nenad Tomašev , Ulrich Paquet , Demis Hassabis , Vladimir Kramnik

From the early days of computing, games have been important testbeds for studying how well machines can do sophisticated decision making. In recent years, machine learning has made dramatic advances with artificial agents reaching…

Endgame studies have long served as a tool for testing human creativity and intelligence. We find that they can serve as a tool for testing machine ability as well. Two of the leading chess engines, Stockfish and Leela Chess Zero (LCZero),…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Shiva Maharaj , Nick Polson , Alex Turk

We reframe the analysis of progress in AI by incorporating into an overall framework both the task performance of a system, and the time and resource costs incurred in the development and deployment of the system. These costs include: data,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Fernando Martínez-Plumed , Shahar Avin , Miles Brundage , Allan Dafoe , Sean Ó hÉigeartaigh , José Hernández-Orallo

The Elo system for rating chess players, also used in other games and sports, was adopted by the World Chess Federation over four decades ago. Although not without controversy, it is accepted as generally reliable and provides a method for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-03-31 Trevor Fenner , Mark Levene , George Loizou