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In this paper, we investigate a distributed Nash equilibrium computation problem for a time-varying multi-agent network consisting of two subnetworks, where the two subnetworks share the same objective function. We first propose a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Youcheng Lou , Yiguang Hong , Lihua Xie , Guodong Shi , Karl Henrik Johansson

While there have been a number of studies about the efficacy of methods to find exact Nash equilibria in bimatrix games, there has been little empirical work on finding approximate Nash equilibria. Here we provide such a study that compares…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-10 John Fearnley , Tobenna Peter Igwe , Rahul Savani

Graphical games are a useful framework for modeling the interactions of (selfish) agents who are connected via an underlying topology and whose behaviors influence each other. They have wide applications ranging from computer science to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Juho Hirvonen , Laura Schmid , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Stefan Schmid

In this paper, we investigate distributed generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) computation of monotone games with affine coupling constraints. Each player can only utilize its local objective function, local feasible set and a local block of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Peng Yi , Lacra Pavel

We present a new methodology for computing approximate Nash equilibria for two-person non-cooperative games based upon certain extensions and specializations of an existing optimization approach previously used for the derivation of fixed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-28 Haralampos Tsaknakis , Paul G. Spirakis

This paper addresses the problem of distributed online generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) learning for multi-cluster games with delayed feedback information. Specifically, each agent in the game is assumed to be informed a sequence of local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Bingqian Liu , Guanghui Wen , Xiao Fang , Tingwen Huang , Guanrong Chen

In this paper, we propose a distributed primal-dual algorithm for computation of a generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) in noncooperative games over network systems. In the considered game, not only each player's local objective function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Peng Yi , Lacra Pavel

We consider a class of multi-robot motion planning problems where each robot is associated with multiple objectives and decoupled task specifications. The problems are formulated as an open-loop non-cooperative differential game. A…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Minghui Zhu , Michael Otte , Pratik Chaudhari , Emilio Frazzoli

In this paper, we consider a continuous-type Bayesian Nash equilibrium (BNE) seeking problem in subnetwork zero-sum games, which is a generalization of deterministic subnetwork zero-sum games and discrete-type Bayesian zero-sum games. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Hanzheng Zhang , Guanpu Chen , Yiguang Hong

We study generalized games with full row rank equality constraints and we provide a strikingly simple proof of strong monotonicity of the associated KKT operator. This allows us to show linear convergence to a variational equilibrium of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Mattia Bianchi , Emilio Benenati , Sergio Grammatico

We study the problem of computing an $\epsilon$-Nash equilibrium in repeated games. Earlier work by Borgs et al. [2010] suggests that this problem is intractable. We show that if we make a slight change to their model---modeling the players…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Joseph Y. Halpern , Rafael Pass , Lior Seeman

We develop a flexible stochastic approximation framework for analyzing the long-run behavior of learning in games (both continuous and finite). The proposed analysis template incorporates a wide array of popular learning algorithms,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Volkan Cevher

This work considers a stochastic Nash game in which each player solves a parameterized stochastic optimization problem. In deterministic regimes, best-response schemes have been shown to be convergent under a suitable spectral property…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-08 Jinlong Lei , Uday V. Shanbhag , Jong-Shi Pang , Suvrajeet Sen

In this paper, a distributed non-model based seeking algorithm which combines the extremum seeking control (ESC) jointly with learning algorithms is proposed to seek a generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) for a class of noncooperative games…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Feng Xiao , Xin Cai , Bo Wei

We consider structural and algorithmic questions related to the Nash dynamics of weighted congestion games. In weighted congestion games with linear latency functions, the existence of (pure Nash) equilibria is guaranteed by potential…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-14 Ioannis Caragiannis , Angelo Fanelli , Nick Gravin , Alexander Skopalik

Decision-making in multi-player games can be extremely challenging, particularly under uncertainty. In this work, we propose a new sample-based approximation to a class of stochastic, general-sum, pure Nash games, where each player has an…

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

The distributed computation of equilibria and optima has seen growing interest in a broad collection of networked problems. We consider the computation of equilibria of convex stochastic Nash games characterized by a possibly nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-05 Jinlong Lei , Uday V. Shanbhag

We analyze the robustness of (pure strategy) Nash equilibria for network games against perturbations of the players' utility functions. We first derive a simple characterization of the margin of robustness, defined as the minimum magnitude…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Laura Arditti , Giacomo Como , Fabio Fagnani , Martina Vanelli