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Aggregative games have many industrial applications, and computing an equilibrium in those games is challenging when the number of players is large. In the framework of atomic aggregative games with coupling constraints, we show that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Paulin Jacquot , Cheng Wan , Olivier Beaude , Nadia Oudjane

Under what conditions do the behaviors of players, who play a game repeatedly, converge to a Nash equilibrium? If one assumes that the players' behavior is a discrete-time or continuous-time rule whereby the current mixed strategy profile…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Jason Milionis , Christos Papadimitriou , Georgios Piliouras , Kelly Spendlove

The emergence of complex networks from evolutionary games is studied occurring when agents are allowed to switch interaction partners. For this purpose a coevolutionary iterated Prisoner's Dilemma game is defined on a random network with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Holger Ebel , Stefan Bornholdt

Graphon games are a class of games with a continuum of agents, introduced to approximate the strategic interactions in large network games. The first result of this study is an equilibrium existence theorem in graphon games, under the same…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-04-03 Motoki Otsuka

In this paper we present a novel generic mapping between Graphical Games and Markov Random Fields so that pure Nash equilibria in the former can be found by statistical inference on the latter. Thus, the problem of deciding whether a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Constantinos Daskalakis

Many models from a variety of areas involve the computation of an equilibrium or fixed point of some kind. Examples include Nash equilibria in games; market equilibria; computing optimal strategies and the values of competitive games…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-02-21 Mihalis Yannakakis

In this paper, we formulate an evolutionarymultiple access control game with continuousvariable actions and coupled constraints. We characterize equilibria of the game and show that the pure equilibria are Pareto optimal and also resilient…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Quanyan Zhu , Hamidou Tembine , Tamer Basar

We propose and analyze a broad family of games played by resource-constrained players, which are characterized by the following central features: 1) each user has a multi-dimensional action space, subject to a single sum resource…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-07 Yi Su , Mihaela van der Schaar

We study continuous stochastic games with heterogeneous mean field interactions and jumps on large networks and explore their limit counterparts. We introduce the graphon game model based on a controlled graphon mean field stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Hamed Amini , Zhongyuan Cao , Agnès Sulem

We prove that in a normal form n-player game with m actions for each player, there exists an approximate Nash equilibrium where each player randomizes uniformly among a set of O(log(m) + log(n)) pure strategies. This result induces an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-19 Yakov Babichenko , Ron Peretz

In this work, we present a novel characterization of approximate Nash equilibria in a class of convex games over the simplex. To achieve this, we regularize the utility functions using the Shannon entropy term, connect the solutions to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Tatiana Tatarenko , S. Rasoul Etesami

The stable cooperation ratio of spatial evolutionary games has been widely studied using simulations or approximate analysis methods. However, sometimes such ``stable'' cooperation ratios obtained via approximate methods might not be…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-01 Jiangjiang Cheng , Wenjun Mei , Wei Su , Ge Chen

Nash equilibrium is used as a model to explain the observed behavior of players in strategic settings. For example, in many empirical applications we observe player behavior, and the problem is to determine if there exist payoffs for the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Siddharth Barman , Umang Bhaskar , Federico Echenique , Adam Wierman

We study the typical structure of games in terms of their connectivity properties. A game is said to be `connected' if it has a pure Nash equilibrium and the property that there is a best-response path from every action profile which is not…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-01-12 Tom Johnston , Michael Savery , Alex Scott , Bassel Tarbush

Discrete-time replicator map is a prototype of evolutionary selection game dynamical models that have been very successful across disciplines in rendering insights into the attainment of the equilibrium outcomes, like the Nash equilibrium…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-22 Archan Mukhopadhyay , Sagar Chakraborty

We study selection acting on phenotype in a collection of agents playing local games lacking Nash equilibria. After each cycle one of the agents losing most games is replaced by a new agent with new random strategy and game partner. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Eriksson , Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

We present a unified framework for characterizing local Nash equilibria in continuous games on either infinite-dimensional or finite-dimensional non-convex strategy spaces. We provide intrinsic necessary and sufficient first- and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Lillian J. Ratliff , Samuel A. Burden , S. Shankar Sastry

We study adaptive dynamics in games where players abandon the population at a given rate, and are replaced by naive players characterized by a prior distribution over the admitted strategies. We demonstrate how such process leads…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Jeppe Juul , Ardeshir Kianercy , Sebastian Bernhardsson , Simone Pigolotti

We prove that finding an $\epsilon$-approximate Nash equilibrium is PPAD-complete for constant $\epsilon$ and a particularly simple class of games: polymatrix, degree 3 graphical games, in which each player has only two actions. As…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Aviad Rubinstein

A growing number of machine learning architectures, such as Generative Adversarial Networks, rely on the design of games which implement a desired functionality via a Nash equilibrium. In practice these games have an implicit complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Gabriel P. Andrade , Rafael Frongillo , Georgios Piliouras