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We consider a sub-class of bi-matrix games which we refer to as two-person (hereafter referred to as two-player) additively-separable sum (TPASS) games, where the sum of the pay-offs of the two players is additively separable. The row…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Somdeb Lahiri

We study two-player zero-sum repeated games with incomplete information on one side, where the payoff function is tail measurable (and not necessarily the long-run average payoff). We show that the maxmin value equals the concavification of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Gil Bar Castellon Koltun , Ehud Lehrer , Eilon Solan

A robust game is a distribution-free model to handle ambiguity generated by a bounded set of possible realizations of the values of players' payoff functions. The players are worst-case optimizers and a solution, called robust-optimization…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-02-11 Giovanni Paolo Crespi , Davide Radi , Matteo Rocca

Blackwell games are infinite games of imperfect information. The two players simultaneously make their moves, and are then informed of each other's moves. Payoff is determined by a Borel measurable function $f$ on the set of possible…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Marco R. Vervoort

We consider multi-player stopping games in continuous time. Unlike Dynkin games, in our games the payoff of each player is revealed after all the players stop. Moreover, each player can adjust her own stopping strategy by observing other…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Zhou Zhou

In an $\epsilon$-Nash equilibrium, a player can gain at most $\epsilon$ by unilaterally changing his behaviour. For two-player (bimatrix) games with payoffs in $[0,1]$, the best-known$\epsilon$ achievable in polynomial time is 0.3393. In…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-02 Argyrios Deligkas , John Fearnley , Rahul Savani , Paul Spirakis

We consider zero-sum stochastic games with perfect information and finitely many states and actions. The payoff is computed by a function which associates to each infinite sequence of states and actions a real number. We prove that if the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Hugo Gimbert , Edon Kelmendi

We study the problem of finding equilibrium strategies in multi-agent games with incomplete payoff information, where the payoff matrices are only known to the players up to some bounded uncertainty sets. In such games, an ex-post…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Wenshuo Guo , Mihaela Curmei , Serena Wang , Benjamin Recht , Michael I. Jordan

We give an alternative proof that every two-person non-zero-sum absorbing positive recursive stochastic game with finitely many states has approximate equilibria, a result proven by Nicolas Vieille. Our proof uses a state specific discount…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-10-12 Robert Samuel Simon

We consider a two-player game of war of attrition under complete information. It is well-known that this class of games admits equilibria in pure, as well as mixed strategies, and much of the literature has focused on the latter. We show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-30 George Georgiadis , Youngsoo Kim , H. Dharma Kwon

We prove that zero-sum Dynkin games in continuous time with partial and asymmetric information admit a value in randomised stopping times when the stopping payoffs of the players are general \cadlag measurable processes. As a by-product of…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Tiziano De Angelis , Nikita Merkulov , Jan Palczewski

Although mixed extensions of finite games always admit equilibria, this is not the case for countable games, the best-known example being Wald's pick-the-larger-integer game. Several authors have provided conditions for the existence of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Valerio Capraro , Marco Scarsini

We prove that there exists a constant $\epsilon>0$ such that, assuming the Exponential Time Hypothesis for PPAD, computing an $\epsilon$-approximate Nash equilibrium in a two-player (nXn) game requires quasi-polynomial time,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Aviad Rubinstein

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

We consider two-player non zero-sum infinite duration games played on weighted graphs. We extend the notion of secure equilibrium introduced by Chatterjee et al., from the Boolean setting to this quantitative setting. As for the Boolean…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Véronique Bruyère , Noémie Meunier , Jean-François Raskin

A Dynkin game is a zero-sum, stochastic stopping game between two players where either player can stop the game at any time for an observable payoff. Typically the payoff process of the max-player is assumed to be smaller than the payoff…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Ivan Guo

We study the infinite horizon discrete time N-player nonzero-sum Dynkin game ($N \geq 2$) with stopping times as strategies (or pure strategies). We prove existence of an $\varepsilon$-Nash equilibrium point for the game by presenting a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Said Hamadène , Mohammed Hassani , Marie-Amélie Morlais

We study a two-player nonzero-sum stochastic differential game where one player controls the state variable via additive impulses while the other player can stop the game at any time. The main goal of this work is characterize Nash…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Luciano Campi , Davide De Santis

We analyze a two-player, nonzero-sum Dynkin game of stopping with incomplete information. We assume that each player observes his own Brownian motion, which is not only independent of the other player's Brownian motion but also not…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Georgy Gaitsgori , Richard Groenewald

In an epsilon-approximate Nash equilibrium, a player can gain at most epsilon in expectation by unilateral deviation. An epsilon well-supported approximate Nash equilibrium has the stronger requirement that every pure strategy used with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-24 Yogesh Anbalagan , Sergey Norin , Rahul Savani , Adrian Vetta