English
Related papers

Related papers: A Generic Multi-Player Transformation Algorithm fo…

200 papers

Continuous games are multiplayer games in which strategy sets are compact and utility functions are continuous. These games typically have a highly complicated structure of Nash equilibria, and numerical methods for the equilibrium…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 T. Kroupa , T. Votroubek

Equilibrium finding in two-player zero-sum games with perfect recall is a well-studied topic that has led to many breakthroughs in computational game theory. This paper aims to generalize such techniques to (timeable) two-player zero-sum…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Luca Carminati , Brian Hu Zhang , Federico Cacciamani , Junkang Li , Gabriele Farina , Nicola Gatti , Tuomas Sandholm

We consider infinite duration alternating move games. These games were previously studied by Roth, Balcan, Kalai and Mansour. They presented an FPTAS for computing an approximated equilibrium, and conjectured that there is a polynomial…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-25 Yaron Velner

In interactive multi-agent settings, decision-making and planning are challenging mainly due to the agents' interconnected objectives. Dynamic game theory offers a formal framework for analyzing such intricacies. Yet, solving constrained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Maulik Bhatt , Yixuan Jia , Negar Mehr

Multi-turn LLM evaluation is typically reported as a single win-rate scalar, conflating distinct capabilities. We introduce AIDG (Adversarial Information Deduction Game), formalizing multi-turn adversarial dialogue as a two-player partially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Adib Sakhawat , Fardeen Sadab , Rakin Shahriar

Many autonomous agents, such as intelligent vehicles, are inherently required to interact with one another. Game theory provides a natural mathematical tool for robot motion planning in such interactive settings. However, tractable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Xinjie Liu , Lasse Peters , Javier Alonso-Mora

We address in this paper Reinforcement Learning (RL) among agents that are grouped into teams such that there is cooperation within each team but general-sum (non-zero sum) competition across different teams. To develop an RL method that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Alec Koppel , Mathieu Laurière , Tamer Başar

This paper aims to solve the optimal strategy against a well-known adaptive algorithm, the Hedge algorithm, in a finitely repeated $2\times 2$ zero-sum game. In the literature, related theoretical results are very rare. To this end, we make…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-18 Xinxiang Guo , Yifen Mu

Nash Equilibrium (NE) is the canonical solution concept of game theory, which provides an elegant tool to understand the rationalities. Though mixed strategy NE exists in any game with finite players and actions, computing NE in two- or…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Xinrun Wang , Chang Yang , Shuxin Li , Pengdeng Li , Xiao Huang , Hau Chan , Bo An

The extensive-form game has been studied considerably in recent years. It can represent games with multiple decision points and incomplete information, and hence it is helpful in formulating games with uncertain inputs, such as poker. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Keigo Habara , Ellen Hidemi Fukuda , Nobuo Yamashita

Decision making in modern large-scale and complex systems such as communication networks, smart electricity grids, and cyber-physical systems motivate novel game-theoretic approaches. This paper investigates big strategic (non-cooperative)…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Tansu Alpcan , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Christopher Leckie

Two standard algorithms for approximately solving two-player zero-sum concurrent reachability games are value iteration and strategy iteration. We prove upper and lower bounds of 2^(m^(Theta(N))) on the worst case number of iterations…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-02 Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen , Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen , Peter Bro Miltersen

We consider distributed computation of generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) over networks, in games with shared coupling constraints. Existing methods require that each player has full access to opponents' decisions. In this paper, we assume…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Lacra Pavel

Many real-world applications involve some agents that fall into two teams, with payoffs that are equal within the same team but of opposite sign across the opponent team. The so-called two-team zero-sum Markov games (2t0sMGs) can be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Guangzheng Hu , Yuanheng Zhu , Haoran Li , Dongbin Zhao

Over the years, researchers have studied the complexity of several decision versions of Nash equilibrium in (symmetric) two-player games (bimatrix games). To the best of our knowledge, the last remaining open problem of this sort is the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-03 Ruta Mehta , Vijay V. Vazirani , Sadra Yazdanbod

Noncooperative game-theoretic tools have been increasingly used to study many important resource allocation problems in communications, networking, smart grids, and portfolio optimization. In this paper, we consider a general class of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Gesualdo Scutari , Francisco Facchinei , Jong-Shi Pang , Daniel P. Palomar

We introduce a simple extensive-form algorithm for finding equilibria of two-player, zero-sum games. The algorithm is realization equivalent to a generalized form of Fictitious Play. We compare its performance to that of a similar…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Tim P. Schulze

There has been significant recent progress in algorithms for approximation of Nash equilibrium in large two-player zero-sum imperfect-information games and exact computation of Nash equilibrium in multiplayer strategic-form games. While…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Sam Ganzfried

Synthesizing near-optimal mixed strategies for zero-sum differential games (ZSDGs) has been a longstanding challenge. Existing research mainly focuses on characterizing the theoretical value function, while the practical design of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Tao Xu , Wang Xi , Jianping He

The multi-cluster games are addressed in this paper, where all players team up with the players in the cluster that they belong to, and compete against the players in other clusters to minimize the cost function of their own cluster. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-19 Zhenhua Deng , Yan Zhao