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In this paper we unify, simplify, and extend previous work on the evolutionary dynamics of symmetric $N$-player matrix games with two pure strategies. In such games, gains from switching strategies depend, in general, on how many other…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-10-03 Jorge Peña , Laurent Lehmann , Georg Nöldeke

Promoting cooperation is an intellectual challenge in the social sciences, for which the iterated Prisoners' Dilemma (IPD) is a fundamental framework. The traditional view that there exists no simple ultimatum strategy whereby one player…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-12 Bin Xu , Yanran Zhou , Jaimie W. Lien , Jie Zheng , Zhijian Wang

Commitments play a crucial role in game theory, shaping strategic interactions by either altering a player's own payoffs or influencing the incentives of others through outcome-contingent payments. While most research has focused on using…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Maria Alejandra Ramirez , Rosemarie Nagel , David Wolpert , Jürgen Jost

Although the definition of what empathetic preferences exactly are is still evolving, there is a general consensus in the psychology, science and engineering communities that the evolution toward players' behaviors in interactive…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Brian Powers , Michalis Smyrnakis , Hamidou Tembine

The evolutionary Prisoner's Dilemma Game (PDG) and the Snowdrift Game (SG) with preferential learning mechanism are studied in the Barab\'asi-Albert network. Simulation results demonstrate that the preferential learning of individuals…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-09-29 Jie Ren , Wen-Xu Wang , Gang Yan , Bing-Hong Wang

Game theoretic tools are utilized to analyze a one-locus continuous selection model of sex-specific meiotic drive by considering nonequivalence of the viabilities of reciprocal heterozygotes that might be noticed at an imprinted locus. The…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-12-07 Bijan Sarkar

Situations where individuals have to contribute to joint efforts or share scarce resources are ubiquitous. Yet, without proper mechanisms to ensure cooperation, the evolutionary pressure to maximize individual success tends to create a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-05-03 Dirk Helbing , Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc , Gyorgy Szabo

Evolutionary game theory offers a general framework to study how behaviors evolve by social learning in a population. This body of theory can accommodate a range of social dilemmas, or games, as well as real-world complexities such as…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-08 Guocheng Wang , Qi Su , Long Wang , Joshua B. Plotkin

Evolutionary game theory has been widely used to study the evolution of cooperation in social dilemmas where imitation-led strategy updates are typically assumed. However, results of recent behavioral experiments are not compatible with the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-19 Ik Soo Lim , Peter Wittek

Situations in which immediate self-interest and long-term collective interest conflict often require some form of influence to prevent them from leading to undesirable or unsustainable outcomes. Next to sanctioning, social influence and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Kathinka Frieswijk , Alain Govaert , Ming Cao

An active line of research has considered games played on networks in which payoffs depend on both a player's individual decision and also the decisions of her neighbors. Such games have been used to model issues including the formation of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-01 Flavio Chierichetti , Jon Kleinberg , Sigal Oren

In Evolutionary game theory the payoffs are typically fixed or shaped by external environmental variables. Here, we introduce an endogenous-feedback model in which the game played coevolves directly with the population state: the payoff…

Evolutionary game theory is one of the key paradigms behind many scientific disciplines from science to engineering. Previous studies proposed a strategy updating mechanism, which successfully demonstrated that the scale-free network can…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-19 Yichao Zhang , M. A. Aziz-Alaoui , Cyrille Bertelle , Shi Zhou , Wenting Wang

Cooperation in large groups and one-shot interactions is often hindered by freeloading. Punishment can enforce cooperation, but it is usually regarded as wasteful because the costs of punishing offset its benefits. Here, we analyze an…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-08 Tatsuya Sasaki , Satochi Uchida

Given a large population of players, each player has three possible choices between option 1 or 2 or no option. The two options are equally favorable and the population has to reach consensus on one of the two options quickly and in a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Leonardo Stella , Dario Bauso

Imitation learning is a powerful tool for training agents by leveraging expert knowledge, and being able to replicate a given trajectory is an integral part of it. In complex environments, like modern 3D video games, distribution shift and…

Traditional evolutionary game theory describes how certain strategy spreads throughout the system where individual player imitates the most successful strategy among its neighborhood. Accordingly, player doesn't have own authority to change…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Sundong Kim , Jin-Jae Lee

A large body of research is currently investigating on the connection between machine learning and game theory. In this work, game theory notions are injected into a preference learning framework. Specifically, a preference learning problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Mirko Polato , Fabio Aiolli

A mediator observes no-regret learners playing an extensive-form game repeatedly across $T$ rounds. The mediator attempts to steer players toward some desirable predetermined equilibrium by giving (nonnegative) payments to players. We call…

Evolutionary graph theory is a well established framework for modelling the evolution of social behaviours in structured populations. An emerging consensus in this field is that graphs that exhibit heterogeneity in the number of connections…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-20 Wes Maciejewski , Feng Fu , Christoph Hauert