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The present paper gives a mathematical, in particular, syntax-independent, formulation of intensionality and dynamics of computation in terms of games and strategies. Specifically, we give a game semantics for a higher-order programming…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Norihiro Yamada , Samson Abramsky

Most of the literature on learning in games has focused on the restrictive setting where the underlying repeated game does not change over time. Much less is known about the convergence of no-regret learning algorithms in dynamic multiagent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Ioannis Anagnostides , Ioannis Panageas , Gabriele Farina , Tuomas Sandholm

In dynamic noncooperative games, each player makes conjectures about other players' reactions before choosing a strategy. However, resulting equilibria may be multiple and do not always lead to desirable outcomes. These issues are typically…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Francesco Morri , Hélène Le Cadre , David Salas , Didier Aussel

We propose an evolutionary coordination game to formalize a simplified model of the evolution of strategies during human courtship. The dynamics, derived from the consideration of experimental observations on human social behavior driven by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-08-26 Andrés Chacoma , Marcelo N. Kuperman , Damián H. Zanette

This paper presents new families of algorithms for the repeated play of two-agent (near) zero-sum games and two-agent zero-sum stochastic games. For example, the family includes fictitious play and its variants as members. Commonly, the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yuksel Arslantas , Ege Yuceel , Yigit Yalin , Muhammed O. Sayin

Understanding the dynamic processes of a real game system requires an appropriate dynamics model, and rigorously testing a dynamics model is non-trivial. In our methodological research, we develop an approach to testing the validity of game…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-28 Yijia Wang , Xiaojie Chen , Zhijian Wang

Network games have been instrumental in understanding strategic behaviors over networks for applications such as critical infrastructure networks, social networks, and cyber-physical systems. One critical challenge of network games is that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-24 Guanze Peng , Tao Li , Shutian Liu , Juntao Chen , Quanyan Zhu

This paper presents a model of network formation in repeated games where the players adapt their strategies and network ties simultaneously using a simple reinforcement-learning scheme. It is demonstrated that the coevolutionary dynamics of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-08-06 Ardeshir Kianercy , Aram Galstyan

This work proposes a novel distributed approach for computing a Nash equilibrium in convex games with restricted strongly monotone pseudo-gradients. By leveraging the idea of the centralized operator extrapolation method presented in [4] to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Tatiana Tatarenko , Angelia Nedich

Smooth game optimization has recently attracted great interest in machine learning as it generalizes the single-objective optimization paradigm. However, game dynamics is more complex due to the interaction between different players and is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Guodong Zhang , Yuanhao Wang

In this paper, Nash equilibrium seeking among a network of players is considered. Different from many existing works on Nash equilibrium seeking in non-cooperative games, the players considered in this paper cannot directly observe the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Maojiao Ye , Guoqiang Hu

In this paper we introduce the novel framework of distributionally robust games. These are multi-player games where each player models the state of nature using a worst-case distribution, also called adversarial distribution. Thus each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Dario Bauso , Jian Gao , Hamidou Tembine

We consider multi-agent decision making where each agent optimizes its convex cost function subject to individual and coupling constraints. The constraint sets are compact convex subsets of a Euclidean space. To learn Nash equilibria, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Tatiana Tatarenko , Maryam Kamgarpour

A recent emerging trend in the literature on learning in games has been concerned with providing faster learning dynamics for correlated and coarse correlated equilibria in normal-form games. Much less is known about the significantly more…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Ioannis Anagnostides , Gabriele Farina , Christian Kroer , Andrea Celli , Tuomas Sandholm

This paper presents algorithms for non-zero sum nonlinear constrained dynamic games with full information. Such problems emerge when multiple players with action constraints and differing objectives interact with the same dynamic system.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Bolei Di , Andrew Lamperski

We study the asymptotic stability of the logit evolutionary dynamics in population games, possibly with multiple heterogenous populations. For general population games, we prove that, on the one hand, strict Nash equilibria are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Leonardo Cianfanelli , Giacomo Como

This work introduces a unified framework for analyzing games in greater depth. In the existing literature, players' strategies are typically assigned scalar values, and equilibrium concepts are used to identify compatible choices. However,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Melih İşeri , Erhan Bayraktar

We present a new model of incomplete information games without private information in which the players use a distributionally robust optimization approach to cope with the payoff uncertainty. With some specific restrictions, we show that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Nicolas Loizou

Motivated by Cournot models, this paper proposes novel models of the noncooperative and cooperative differential games with density constraints in infinite dimensions, where markets consist of infinite firms and demand dynamics are governed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Zhun Gou , Nan-Jing Huang , Jian-Hao Kang , Jen-Chih Yao

This paper examines the convergence behaviour of simultaneous best-response dynamics in random potential games. We provide a theoretical result showing that, for two-player games with sufficiently many actions, the dynamics converge quickly…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Galit Ashkenazi-Golan , Domenico Mergoni Cecchelli , Edward Plumb