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In this paper, we examine \emph{hedonic coalition formation games} in which each player's preferences over partitions of players depend only on the members of his coalition. We present three main results in which restrictions on the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-24 Haris Aziz , Florian Brandl

We know that the Nash equilibria of a game cannot be computed efficiently unless $P = PPAD$. But can they be learned? Are there dynamics that (1) can be computed efficiently by the players at each strategy profile and (2) are guaranteed to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Oliver Biggar , Christos Papadimitriou , Georgios Piliouras

An analysis of several important aspects of competition or conflict in games, social choice and decision theory is presented. Inherent difficulties and complexities in cooperation are highlighted. These have over the years led to a certain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Elemér E Rosinger

We initiate the study of control in hedonic games, where an external actor influences coalition formation by adding or deleting agents. We consider three basic control goals (1) enforcing that an agent is not alone (NA); (2) enforcing that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jiehua Chen , Jakob Guttmann , Merisa Mustajbašić , Sofia Simola

A key question in biological systems is whether genetic diversity persists in the long run under evolutionary competition or whether a single dominant genotype emerges. Classic work by Kalmus in 1945 has established that even in simple…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-10-23 Ruta Mehta , Ioannis Panageas , Georgios Piliouras , Sadra Yazdanbod

We study the problem of partitioning a set of agents into coalitions based on the agents' additively separable preferences, which can also be viewed as a hedonic game. We apply three successively weaker solution concepts, namely…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Michael McKay , Ágnes Cseh , David Manlove

One of the main challenges in distributed learning arises from the difficulty of handling heterogeneous local models and data. In light of the recent success of generative models, we propose to meet this challenge by building on the idea of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Dmitrij Schlesinger , Boris Flach

We analyze the (parameterized) computational complexity of "fair" variants of bipartite many-to-one matching, where each vertex from the "left" side is matched to exactly one vertex and each vertex from the "right" side may be matched to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Niclas Boehmer , Tomohiro Koana

It is known that the generalized Nash equilibrium problem can be reformulated as a quasivariational inequality. Our aim in this work is to introduce a variational approach to study the existence of solutions for generalized ordinal Nash…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Orestes Bueno , John Cotrina , Yboon García

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

In evolutionary game theory, it is customary to be partial to the dynamical models possessing fixed points so that they may be understood as the attainment of evolutionary stability, and hence, Nash equilibrium. Any show of periodic or…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-23 Archan Mukhopadhyay , Sagar Chakraborty

This paper studies game-theoretic decision-making for autonomous vehicles (AVs). A receding horizon multi-player game is formulated to model the AV decision-making problem. Two classes of games, including Nash game and Stackelber games, are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Brady Bateman , Ming Xin , H. Eric Tseng , Mushuang Liu

We consider a scheduling game on parallel related machines, in which jobs try to minimize their completion time by choosing a machine to be processed on. Each machine uses an individual priority list to decide on the order according to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Vipin Ravindran Vijayalakshmi , Marc Schröder , Tami Tamir

Modern applications require robots to comply with multiple, often conflicting rules and to interact with the other agents. We present Posetal Games as a class of games in which each player expresses a preference over the outcomes via a…

Game-theoretic approaches are envisioned to bring human-like reasoning skills and decision-making processes for autonomous vehicles (AVs). However, challenges including game complexity and incomplete information still remain to be addressed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-01 Mushuang Liu , H. Eric Tseng , Dimitar Filev , Anouck Girard , Ilya Kolmanovsky

Hedonic Games (HGs) are a classical framework modeling coalition formation of strategic agents guided by their individual preferences. According to these preferences, it is desirable that a coalition structure (i.e. a partition of agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Simone Fioravanti , Michele Flammini , Bojana Kodric , Giovanna Varricchio

Worst-case hardness results for most equilibrium computation problems have raised the need for beyond-worst-case analysis. To this end, we study the smoothed complexity of finding pure Nash equilibria in Network Coordination Games, a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Shant Boodaghians , Rucha Kulkarni , Ruta Mehta

This paper is concerned with complexity theoretic aspects of a general formulation of quantum game theory that models strategic interactions among rational agents that process and exchange quantum information. In particular, we prove that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-28 John Bostanci , John Watrous

Self-play is a technique for machine learning in multi-agent systems where a learning algorithm learns by interacting with copies of itself. Self-play is useful for generating large quantities of data for learning, but has the drawback that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Revan MacQueen , James R. Wright

We study the complexity of solving two-player infinite duration games played on a fixed finite graph, where the control of a node is not predetermined but rather assigned randomly. In classic random-turn games, control of each node is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Sarvin Bahmani , Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen , Soumyajit Paul , Sven Schewe , Friedrich Slivovsky , Qiyi Tang , Dominik Wojtczak , Shufang Zhu