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Parity games can be used to represent many different kinds of decision problems. In practice, tools that use parity games often rely on a specification in a higher-order logic from which the actual game can be obtained by means of an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Maurice Laveaux , Wieger Wesselink , Tim A. C. Willemse

The study of nonconvex minimax games has gained significant momentum in machine learning and decision science communities due to their fundamental connections to adversarial training scenarios. This work develops a primal-dual alternating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Huiling Zhang , Zi Xu , Yu-Hong Dai

Recently, invariant risk minimization (IRM) (Arjovsky et al.) was proposed as a promising solution to address out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization. In Ahuja et al., it was shown that solving for the Nash equilibria of a new class of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Kartik Ahuja , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Amit Dhurandhar

Game-theoretic techniques and equilibria analysis facilitate the design and verification of competitive systems. While algorithmic complexity of equilibria computation has been extensively studied, practical implementation and application…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Marta Kwiatkowska , Gethin Norman , David Parker , Gabriel Santos

Learning problems commonly exhibit an interesting feedback mechanism wherein the population data reacts to competing decision makers' actions. This paper formulates a new game theoretic framework for this phenomenon, called "multi-player…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Adhyyan Narang , Evan Faulkner , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Maryam Fazel , Lillian J. Ratliff

Action-graph games (AGGs) are a fully expressive game representation which can compactly express both strict and context-specific independence between players' utility functions. Actions are represented as nodes in a graph G, and the payoff…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Navin Bhat , Kevin Leyton-Brown

Tactical Decision Games (TDGs) are military conflict scenarios presented both textually and graphically on a map. These scenarios provide a challenging domain for machine learning because they are open-ended, highly structured, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Tom Hinrichs , Greg Dunham , Ken Forbus

We study two person nonzero-sum stochastic differential games with risk-sensitive discounted and ergodic cost criteria. Under certain conditions we establish a Nash equilibrium in Markov strategies for the discounted cost criterion and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-06 Mrinal K. Ghosh , K. Suresh Kumar , Chandan Pal

We study a class of nonzero-sum stochastic differential games between two teams with agents in each team interacting through graphon aggregates. On the one hand, in each large population group, agents act together to optimize a common…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-16 De-xuan Xu , Zhun Gou , Nan-jing Huang

We derive sublinear-time quantum algorithms for computing the Nash equilibrium of two-player zero-sum games, based on efficient Gibbs sampling methods. We are able to achieve speed-ups for both dense and sparse payoff matrices at the cost…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-08 Joran van Apeldoorn , András Gilyén

In this paper we discuss a class of mean field linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) games for large population system which has never been addressed by existing literature. The features of our works are sketched as follows. First of all, our…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-08-09 Jianhui Huang , Xun Li , Tianxiao Wang

We study equilibrium finding in polymatrix games under differential privacy constraints. Prior work in this area fails to achieve both high-accuracy equilibria and a low privacy budget. To better understand the fundamental limitations of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Mingyang Liu , Gabriele Farina , Asuman Ozdaglar

We consider two-player non-zero-sum linear-quadratic Gaussian games in which both players aim to minimize a quadratic cost function while controlling a linear and stochastic state process {using linear policies}. The system is partially…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Ben Hambly , Renyuan Xu , Huining Yang

The study of linear-quadratic stochastic differential games on directed networks was initiated in Feng, Fouque \& Ichiba \cite{fengFouqueIchiba2020linearquadratic}. In that work, the game on a directed chain with finite or infinite players…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Yichen Feng , Jean-Pierre Fouque , Tomoyuki Ichiba

The paper explores n-player multi-objective interval differential games, where the terminal payoff function and integral payoff function of players are both interval-vector-valued functions. Firstly, by leveraging the partial order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Wen Li , Du Zou , Deyi Li , Yuqiang Feng

The performance of two pivoting algorithms, due to Lemke and Cottle and Dantzig, is studied on linear complementarity problems (LCPs) that arise from infinite games, such as parity, average-reward, and discounted games. The algorithms have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-16 John Fearnley , Marcin Jurdziński , Rahul Savani

Pursuit-evasion scenarios appear widely in robotics, security domains, and many other real-world situations. We focus on two-player pursuit-evasion games with concurrent moves, infinite horizon, and discounted rewards. We assume that the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Karel Horák , Branislav Bošanský

This paper considers mean field games with optimal stopping time (OSMFGs) where agents make optimal exit decisions, the coupled obstacle and Fokker-Planck equations in such models pose challenges versus classic MFGs. This paper proposes a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Chengfeng Shen , Yifan Luo , Zhennan Zhou

We analyze a simple variant of the Goldfarb-Idnani (GI) dual active-set method for computing variational generalized Nash equilibria of strongly monotone N-player games with convex quadratic costs and shared affine inequality and equality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Alberto Bemporad

Consider a multiplayer game, and assume a system level objective function, which the system wants to optimize, is given. This paper aims at accomplishing this goal via potential game theory when players can only get part of other players'…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Changxi Li , Fenghua He , Hongsheng Qi , Daizhan Cheng