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Leader-follower general-sum stochastic games (LF-GSSGs) model sequential decision-making under asymmetric commitment, where a leader commits to a policy and a follower best responds, yielding a strong Stackelberg equilibrium (SSE) with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Jilles Steeve Dibangoye , Thibaut Le Marre , Ocan Sankur , François Schwarzentruber

Indirect trajectory optimization methods such as Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) have found considerable success when only planning under dynamic feasibility constraints. Meanwhile, nonlinear programming (NLP) has been the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Sumeet Singh , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Vikas Sindhwani

We consider the Bilevel Knapsack with Interdiction Constraints, an extension of the classic 0-1 knapsack problem formulated as a Stackelberg game with two agents, a leader and a follower, that choose items from a common set and hold their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Federico Della Croce , Rosario Scatamacchia

This paper is concerned with a stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem of Markovian regime switching system with model uncertainty and partial information, where the information available to the control is based on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Na Xiang , Jingtao Shi

We present a resource-planning game for cyber-security of networked control systems (NCS). The NCS is assumed to be operating in closed-loop using a linear state-feedback $\mathcal{H}_2$ controller. A zero-sum, two-player Stackelberg game…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Pratishtha Shukla , Lu An , Aranya Chakrabortty , Alexandra Duel-Hallen

This paper addresses a linear-quadratic Stackelberg mean field (MF) games and teams problem with arbitrary population sizes, where the game among the followers is further categorized into two types: non-cooperative and cooperative, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Wenyu Cong , Jingtao Shi , Bingchang Wang

We study the closed-loop solvability of a stochastic linear quadratic optimal control problem for systems governed by stochastic evolution equations. This solvability is established by means of solvability of the corresponding Riccati…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-21 Qi Lü

The aim of this paper is to perform a Stackelberg strategy to control parabolic equations. We have one control, \textit{the leader}, that is responsible for a null controllability property; additionally, we have a control \textit{the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Víctor Hernández-Santamaría , Luz de Teresa

This study presents a numerical analysis framework for pursuit--evasion differential games under the Stackelberg equilibrium. The Semi-DCNLP method is introduced as an optimization solver for flight path optimization problems formulated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Kazuhiro Horie

In 1996, Mallozzi and Morgan [33] proposed a new model for Stackelberg games which we refer here to as the Bayesian approach. The leader has only partial information about how followers select their reaction among possibly multiple optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-12 David Salas , Anton Svensson

This paper is concerned with a Stackelberg stochastic differential game, where the systems are driven by stochastic differential equation (SDE for short), in which the control enters the randomly disturbed coefficients (drift and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Liangquan Zhang , Wei Zhang

This paper investigates zero-sum stochastic linear quadratic (SLQ) differential games with Markovian jumps. Open-loop and closed-loop solvabilities are studied by employing a new ``decomposition method", which decomposes the open-loop and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Fan Wu , Xun Li , Xin Zhang

Inverse game theory is utilized to infer the cost functions of all players based on game outcomes. However, existing inverse game theory methods do not consider the learner as an active participant in the game, which could significantly…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jianguo Chen , Jinlong Lei , Biqiang Mu , Yiguang Hong , Hongsheng Qi

A study of the linear quadratic (LQ) control problem on a finite time interval for a model equation in Hilbert spaces which comprehends the memory of the inputs was performed recently by the authors. The outcome included a closed-loop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Paolo Acquistapace , Francesca Bucci

A general and new stochastic linear quadratic optimal control problem is studied, where the coefficients are allowed to be time-varying, and both state delay and control delay can appear simultaneously in the state equation and the cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Weijun Meng , Tianxiao Wang , Ji-Feng Zhang

This paper is concerned with mean-field stochastic linear-quadratic (MF-SLQ, for short) optimal control problems with deterministic coefficients. The notion of weak closed-loop optimal strategy is introduced. It is shown that the open-loop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-27 Jingrui Sun , Hanxiao Wang

We initiate the study of structured Stackelberg games, a novel form of strategic interaction between a leader and a follower where contextual information can be predictive of the follower's (unknown) type. Motivated by applications such as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Maria-Florina Balcan , Kiriaki Fragkia , Keegan Harris

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

Formulating cyber-security problems with attackers and defenders as a partially observable stochastic game has become a trend recently. Among them, the one-sided two-player zero-sum partially observable stochastic game (OTZ-POSG) has…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-20 Wei Zheng , Taeho Jung , Hai Lin

We study policy optimization in Stackelberg mean field games (MFGs), a hierarchical framework for modeling the strategic interaction between a single leader and an infinitely large population of homogeneous followers. The objective can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Sihan Zeng , Benjamin Patrick Evans , Sujay Bhatt , Leo Ardon , Sumitra Ganesh , Alec Koppel