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This paper investigates posterior sampling algorithms for competitive reinforcement learning (RL) in the context of general function approximations. Focusing on zero-sum Markov games (MGs) under two critical settings, namely self-play and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Shuang Qiu , Ziyu Dai , Han Zhong , Zhaoran Wang , Zhuoran Yang , Tong Zhang

We study repeated games where players use an exponential learning scheme in order to adapt to an ever-changing environment. If the game's payoffs are subject to random perturbations, this scheme leads to a new stochastic version of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-10-22 Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Aris L. Moustakas

We present several new characterizations of correlated equilibria in games with continuous utility functions. These have the advantage of being more computationally and analytically tractable than the standard definition in terms of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-06 Noah D. Stein , Pablo A. Parrilo , Asuman Ozdaglar

We formulate a general framework for competitive gradient-based learning that encompasses a wide breadth of multi-agent learning algorithms, and analyze the limiting behavior of competitive gradient-based learning algorithms using dynamical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Eric Mazumdar , Lillian J. Ratliff , S. Shankar Sastry

The convergence of online learning algorithms in games under self-play is a fundamental question in game theory and machine learning. Among various notions of convergence, last-iterate convergence is particularly desirable, as it reflects…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yang Cai , Haipeng Luo , Chen-Yu Wei , Weiqiang Zheng

Machine learning relies on the assumption that unseen test instances of a classification problem follow the same distribution as observed training data. However, this principle can break down when machine learning is used to make important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Moritz Hardt , Nimrod Megiddo , Christos Papadimitriou , Mary Wootters

In Keynesian Beauty Contests notably modeled by p-guessing games, players try to guess the average of guesses multiplied by p. Convergence of plays to Nash equilibrium has often been justified by agents' learning. However, interrogations…

General Economics · Economics 2021-03-29 Aymeric Vie

Lipschitz games, in which there is a limit $\lambda$ (the Lipschitz value of the game) on how much a player's payoffs may change when some other player deviates, were introduced about 10 years ago by Azrieli and Shmaya. They showed via the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Paul W. Goldberg , Matthew J. Katzman

We study a class of games which model the competition among agents to access some service provided by distributed service units and which exhibit congestion and frustration phenomena when service units have limited capacity. We propose a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-19 F. Altarelli , A. Braunstein , L. Dall'Asta

In graph-based active learning, algorithms based on expected error minimization (EEM) have been popular and yield good empirical performance. The exact computation of EEM optimally balances exploration and exploitation. In practice,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-06 Kwang-Sung Jun , Robert Nowak

Nash equilibrium is one of the most influential solution concepts in game theory. With the development of computer science and artificial intelligence, there is an increasing demand on Nash equilibrium computation, especially for Internet…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Hanyu Li , Wenhan Huang , Zhijian Duan , David Henry Mguni , Kun Shao , Jun Wang , Xiaotie Deng

Correlated equilibria are a fundamental solution concept in game theory. However, despite decades of research, the complexity beyond games of polynomial type -- such as extensive-form games, congestion or routing games, and more broadly…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ioannis Anagnostides , Constantinos Daskalakis , Gabriele Farina , Noah Golowich , Tuomas Sandholm , Brian Hu Zhang

In this paper, we resolve the computational complexity of a number of outstanding open problems with practical applications. Here is the list of problems we show to be PPAD-complete, along with the domains of practical significance:…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-04-10 Shiva Kintali , Laura J. Poplawski , Rajmohan Rajaraman , Ravi Sundaram , Shang-Hua Teng

Motivated by the question of how a principal can maximize its utility in repeated interactions with a learning agent, we study repeated games between an principal and an agent employing a mean-based learning algorithm. Prior work has shown…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Nivasini Ananthakrishnan , Yuval Dagan , Kunhe Yang

Cut games are among the most fundamental strategic games in algorithmic game theory. It is well-known that computing an exact pure Nash equilibrium in these games is PLS-hard, so research has focused on computing approximate equilibria. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Ioannis Caragiannis , Zhile Jiang

We provide the first fully polynomial time approximation scheme (FPTAS) for computing an approximate mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium in tree-structured graphical multi-hypermatrix games (GMhGs). GMhGs are generalizations of normal-form…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Luis E. Ortiz , Mohammad T. Irfan

We study multiplayer quantitative reachability games played on a finite directed graph, where the objective of each player is to reach his target set of vertices as quickly as possible. Instead of the well-known notion of Nash equilibrium…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Thomas Brihaye , Véronique Bruyère , Aline Goeminne , Jean-François Raskin , Marie van den Bogaard

We study the problem of characterizing the set of games that are consistent with observed equilibrium play. Our contribution is to develop and analyze a new methodology based on convex optimization to address this problem for many classes…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Juba Ziani , Venkat Chandrasekaran , Katrina Ligett

We want to introduce another smoothing approach by treating each geometric element as a player in a game: a quest for the best element quality. In other words, each player has the goal of becoming as regular as possible. The set of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Dimitris Vartziotis , Doris Bohnet , Benjamin Himpel

Neural network pruning is widely used to reduce model size and computational cost. Yet, most existing methods treat sparsity as an externally imposed constraint, enforced through heuristic importance scores or training-time regularization.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Zubair Shah , Noaman Khan