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We consider games played on the transition graph of concurrent programs running under the Total Store Order (TSO) weak memory model. Games are frequently used to model the interaction between a system and its environment, in this case…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Stephan Spengler

Unlike Poker where the action space $\mathcal{A}$ is discrete, differential games in the physical world often have continuous action spaces not amenable to discrete abstraction, rendering no-regret algorithms with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Mukesh Ghimire , Zhe Xu , Yi Ren

We study infinite two-player win/lose games $(A,B,W)$ where $A,B$ are finite and $W \subseteq (A \times B)^\omega$. At each round Player 1 and Player 2 concurrently choose one action in $A$ and $B$, respectively. Player 1 wins iff the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Patricia Bouyer , Stéphane Le Roux , Nathan Thomasset

Simple stochastic games are turn-based 2.5-player zero-sum graph games with a reachability objective. The problem is to compute the winning probability as well as the optimal strategies of both players. In this paper, we compare the three…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Jan Kretinsky , Emanuel Ramneantu , Alexander Slivinskiy , Maximilian Weininger

Counter reachability games are played by two players on a graph with labelled edges. Each move consists in picking an edge from the current location and adding its label to a counter vector. The objective is to reach a given counter value…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-22 Julien Reichert

We investigate the difficulty of finding economically efficient solutions to coordination problems on graphs. Our work focuses on two forms of coordination problem: pure-coordination games and anti-coordination games. We consider three…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Argyrios Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Gregory Gutin , Philip R. Neary , Anders Yeo

We study new classes of games, called zero-sum equivalent games and zero-sum equivalent potential games, and prove decomposition theorems involving these classes of games. We say that two games are "strategically equivalent" if, for every…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Sung-Ha Hwang , Luc Rey-Bellet

This paper proposes a game-theoretic approach to address the problem of optimal sensor placement against an adversary in uncertain networked control systems. The problem is formulated as a zero-sum game with two players, namely a malicious…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-13 Anh Tung Nguyen , Sribalaji C. Anand , André M. H. Teixeira

We revisit the problem of solving two-player zero-sum games in the decentralized setting. We propose a simple algorithmic framework that simultaneously achieves the best rates for honest regret as well as adversarial regret, and in addition…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Ehsan Asadi Kangarshahi , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Mehmet Fatih Sahin , Volkan Cevher

We study best-response type learning dynamics for zero-sum polymatrix games under two information settings. The two settings are distinguished by the type of information that each player has about the game and their opponents' strategy. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Fathima Zarin Faizal , Asuman Ozdaglar , Martin J. Wainwright

Two standard algorithms for approximately solving two-player zero-sum concurrent reachability games are value iteration and strategy iteration. We prove upper and lower bounds of 2^(m^(Theta(N))) on the worst case number of iterations…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-02 Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen , Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen , Peter Bro Miltersen

We consider two-player games played on finite colored graphs where the goal is the construction of an infinite path with one of the following frequency-related properties: (i) all colors occur with the same asymptotic frequency, (ii) there…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-29 Alessandro Bianco , Marco Faella , Fabio Mogavero , Aniello Murano

In this article, we generalize Unbounded Minimax, the state-of-the-art search algorithm for zero sums two-player games with perfect information to the framework of multiplayer games with perfect information. We experimentally show that this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Quentin Cohen-Solal

Learning from repeated play in a fixed two-player zero-sum game is a classic problem in game theory and online learning. We consider a variant of this problem where the game payoff matrix changes over time, possibly in an adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Mengxiao Zhang , Peng Zhao , Haipeng Luo , Zhi-Hua Zhou

We introduce a new approach for computing optimal equilibria via learning in games. It applies to extensive-form settings with any number of players, including mechanism design, information design, and solution concepts such as correlated,…

Reachability games are two-player games played on a graph, where the objective of $\texttt{REACH}$ player is to reach the target set whereas the objective of $\texttt{SAFE}$ player is to stay away from the target set. Reachability games…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady , Mehrdad Karrabi , Maximilian Seeliger , Đorđe Žikelić

A general model for zero-sum stochastic games with asymmetric information is considered. In this model, each player's information at each time can be divided into a common information part and a private information part. Under certain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-25 Dhruva Kartik , Ashutosh Nayyar

A graph $G = (V,E)$ is said to be saturated with respect to a monotone increasing graph property ${\mathcal P}$, if $G \notin {\mathcal P}$ but $G \cup \{e\} \in {\mathcal P}$ for every $e \in \binom{V}{2} \setminus E$. The saturation game…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-29 Dan Hefetz , Michael Krivelevich , Alon Naor , Miloš Stojaković

We investigate the increasingly important and common game-solving setting where we do not have an explicit description of the game but only oracle access to it through gameplay, such as in financial or military simulations and computer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Carlos Martin , Tuomas Sandholm

We consider average-energy games, where the goal is to minimize the long-run average of the accumulated energy. While several results have been obtained on these games recently, decidability of average-energy games with a lower-bound…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-16 Patricia Bouyer , Piotr Hofman , Nicolas Markey , Mickael Randour , Martin Zimmermann