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Understanding the convergence landscape of multi-agent learning is a fundamental problem of great practical relevance in many applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning. While it is known that learning dynamics converge to…

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Nash equilibrium serves as a fundamental mathematical tool in economics and game theory. However, it classically assumes knowledge of player utilities, whereas economics generally regards preferences as more fundamental. To leverage…

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Drawing intuition from a (physical) hydraulic system, we present a novel framework, constructively showing the existence of a strong Nash equilibrium in resource selection games (i.e., asymmetric singleton congestion games) with nonatomic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Yannai A. Gonczarowski , Moshe Tennenholtz

Various social contexts ranging from public goods provision to information collection can be depicted as games of strategic interactions, where a player's well-being depends on her own action as well as on the actions taken by her…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-04-01 Giulio Cimini , Claudio Castellano , Angel Sánchez

This paper examines the convergence behaviour of simultaneous best-response dynamics in random potential games. We provide a theoretical result showing that, for two-player games with sufficiently many actions, the dynamics converge quickly…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Galit Ashkenazi-Golan , Domenico Mergoni Cecchelli , Edward Plumb

We show that the problem of deciding whether in a multi-player perfect information recursive game (i.e. a stochastic game with terminal rewards) there exists a stationary Nash equilibrium ensuring each player a certain payoff is Existential…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen , Steffan Christ Sølvsten

In this paper we consider continuity of the set of Nash equilibria and approximate Nash equilibria for parameterized games. For parameterized games with unique Nash equilibria, the continuity of this equilibrium mapping is well-known.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-10 Zachary Feinstein

The class of weakly acyclic games, which includes potential games and dominance-solvable games, captures many practical application domains. In a weakly acyclic game, from any starting state, there is a sequence of better-response moves…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-11 Alex Fabrikant , Aaron D. Jaggard , Michael Schapira

We consider multi-agent decision making where each agent optimizes its convex cost function subject to individual and coupling constraints. The constraint sets are compact convex subsets of a Euclidean space. To learn Nash equilibria, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Tatiana Tatarenko , Maryam Kamgarpour

We design a distributed algorithm to seek generalized Nash equilibria of a robust game with uncertain coupled constraints. Due to the uncertainty of parameters in set constraints, we aim to find a generalized Nash equilibrium in the worst…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Gehui Xu , Guanpu Chen , Hongsheng Qi

We consider the basic problem of approximating Nash equilibria in noncooperative games. For monotone games, we design continuous time flows which converge in an averaged sense to Nash equilibria. We also study mean field equilibria, which…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Ryan Hynd

Repeated games consider a situation where multiple agents are motivated by their independent rewards throughout learning. In general, the dynamics of their learning become complex. Especially when their rewards compete with each other like…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yuma Fujimoto , Kaito Ariu , Kenshi Abe

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

Game theory provides a well-established framework for the analysis of concurrent and multi-agent systems. The basic idea is that concurrent processes (agents) can be understood as corresponding to players in a game; plays represent the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Julian Gutierrez , Paul Harrenstein , Giuseppe Perelli , Michael Wooldridge

Real-world games, which concern imperfect information, multiple players, and simultaneous moves, are less frequently discussed in the existing literature of game theory. While reinforcement learning (RL) provides a general framework to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Runyu Lu , Yuanheng Zhu , Dongbin Zhao

We introduce and investigate certain $N$ player dynamic games on the line and in the plane that admit Coulomb gas dynamics as a Nash equilibrium. Most significantly, we find that the universal local limit of the equilibrium is sensitive to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-29 René Carmona , Mark Cerenzia , Aaron Zeff Palmer

Game theory studies situations in which strategic players can modify the state of a given system, due to the absence of a central authority. Solution concepts, such as Nash equilibrium, are defined to predict the outcome of such situations.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-08 Diodato Ferraioli , Paul W. Goldberg , Carmine Ventre

We extend the study of the complexity of finding an $\eps$-approximate Nash equilibrium in congestion games from the case of positive delay functions to delays of arbitrary sign. We first prove that in symmetric games with $\alpha$-bounded…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-08 Frederic Magniez , Michel de Rougemont , Miklos Santha , Xavier Zeitoun

This study investigates differential games with motion-payoff uncertainty in continuous-time settings. We propose a framework where players update their beliefs about uncertain parameters using continuous Bayesian updating. Theoretical…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jiangjing Zhou , Ovanes Petrosian , Ye Zhang , Hongwei Gao

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