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Computational advertising has been studied to design efficient marketing strategies that maximize the number of acquired customers. In an increased competitive market, however, a market leader (a leader) requires the acquisition of new…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Daisuke Hatano , Yuko Kuroki , Yasushi Kawase , Hanna Sumita , Naonori Kakimura , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi

Computing Nash equilibrium policies is a central problem in multi-agent reinforcement learning that has received extensive attention both in theory and in practice. However, provable guarantees have been thus far either limited to fully…

In this study, we present models where participants strategically select their risk levels and earn corresponding rewards, mirroring real-world competition across various sectors. Our analysis starts with a normal form game involving two…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-05-31 Louis Abraham

The infinite horizon risk-sensitive discounted-cost and ergodic-cost nonzero-sum stochastic games for controlled Markov chains with countably many states are analyzed. For the discounted-cost game, we prove the existence of Nash equilibrium…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-14 Arnab Basu , Mrinal K. Ghosh

This paper deals with N-person nonzero-sum discrete-time Markov games under a probability criterion, in which the transition probabilities and reward functions are allowed to vary with time. Differing from the existing works on the expected…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Xin Guo , Xin Wen

We consider a general class of finite-player stochastic games with mean-field interaction, in which the linear-quadratic cost functional includes linear operators acting on controls in $L^2$. We propose a novel approach for deriving the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-16 Eduardo Abi Jaber , Eyal Neuman , Moritz Voß

We consider a general nonzero-sum impulse game with two players. The main mathematical contribution of the paper is a verification theorem which provides, under some regularity conditions, a suitable system of quasi-variational inequalities…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-11-09 René Aïd , Matteo Basei , Giorgia Callegaro , Luciano Campi , Tiziano Vargiolu

A model of stochastic games where multiple controllers jointly control the evolution of the state of a dynamic system but have access to different information about the state and action processes is considered. The asymmetry of information…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-18 Ashutosh Nayyar , Abhishek Gupta , Cédric Langbort , Tamer Başar

In this paper we study stochastic dynamic games with many players; these are a fundamental model for a wide range of economic applications. The standard solution concept for such games is Markov perfect equilibrium (MPE), but it is well…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Sachin Adlakha , Ramesh Johari , Gabriel Y. Weintraub

We consider a class of two-player dynamic stochastic nonzero-sum games where the state transition and observation equations are linear, and the primitive random variables are Gaussian. Each controller acquires possibly different dynamic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Abhishek Gupta , Ashutosh Nayyar , Cedric Langbort , Tamer Basar

We show that computing approximate stationary Markov coarse correlated equilibria (CCE) in general-sum stochastic games is computationally intractable, even when there are two players, the game is turn-based, the discount factor is an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Constantinos Daskalakis , Noah Golowich , Kaiqing Zhang

Game theory finds nowadays a broad range of applications in engineering and machine learning. However, in a derivative-free, expensive black-box context, very few algorithmic solutions are available to find game equilibria. Here, we propose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-28 Victor Picheny , Mickael Binois , Abderrahmane Habbal

Probabilistic model checking for stochastic games enables formal verification of systems that comprise competing or collaborating entities operating in a stochastic environment. Despite good progress in the area, existing approaches focus…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Marta Kwiatkowska , Gethin Norman , David Parker , Gabriel Santos

Interactions among selfish users sharing a common transmission channel can be modeled as a non-cooperative game using the game theory framework. When selfish users choose their transmission probabilities independently without any…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-31 Jaeok Park , Mihaela van der Schaar

Many important real-world settings contain multiple players interacting over an unknown duration with probabilistic state transitions, and are naturally modeled as stochastic games. Prior research on algorithms for stochastic games has…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Sam Ganzfried

We study dynamic finite-player and mean-field stochastic games within the framework of Markov perfect equilibria (MPE). Our focus is on discrete time and space structures without monotonicity. Unlike their continuous-time analogues,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Felix Höfer , H. Mete Soner , Atilla Yılmaz

This article is related to risk-sensitive nonzero-sum stochastic differential games in the Markovian framework. This game takes into account the attitudes of the players toward risk and the utility is of exponential form. We show the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-04 Said Hamadène , Rui Mu

Many real-world domains contain multiple agents behaving strategically with probabilistic transitions and uncertain (potentially infinite) duration. Such settings can be modeled as stochastic games. While algorithms have been developed for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Sam Ganzfried , Conner Laughlin , Charles Morefield

Frequent violations of fair principles in real-life settings raise the fundamental question of whether such principles can guarantee the existence of a self-enforcing equilibrium in a free economy. We show that elementary principles of…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-07-28 Ghislain H. Demeze-Jouatsa , Roland Pongou , Jean-Baptiste Tondji

In this paper, we consider a large class of constrained non-cooperative stochastic Markov games with countable state spaces and discounted cost criteria. In one-player case, i.e., constrained discounted Markov decision models, it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-16 Anna Jaśkiewicz , Andrzej S. Nowak