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Solving parity games is a major building block for numerous applications in reactive program verification and synthesis. While they can be solved efficiently in practice, no known approach has a polynomial worst-case runtime complexity. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Tobias Hecking , Swathy Muthukrishnan , Alexander Weinert

The legal positions of a strong placement game, such as Domineering, form a simplicial complex called the legal complex. In this paper, we use the legal complex to study the game values taken on by the class of strong placement games using…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Svenja Huntemann

Can players sustain long-run trust when their equilibrium beliefs are shaped by machine-learning methods that penalize complexity? I study a game in which an infinite sequence of agents with one-period recall decides whether to place trust…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-17 Ran Spiegler

Gambits are central to human decision-making. Our goal is to provide a theory of Gambits. A Gambit is a combination of psychological and technical factors designed to disrupt predictable play. Chess provides an environment to study gambits…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-04-14 Shiva Maharaj , Nicholas Polson , Christian Turk

This work focuses on the analysis of Chess 960, also known as Fischer Random Chess, a variant of traditional chess where the starting positions of the pieces are randomized. The study aims to predict the game outcome using machine learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Shreyan Deo , Nishchal Dwivedi

In this paper we apply model predictive control (MPC), rollout, and reinforcement learning (RL) methodologies to computer chess. We introduce a new architecture for move selection, within which available chess engines are used as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Atharva Gundawar , Yuchao Li , Dimitri Bertsekas

Shapley value is originally a concept in econometrics to fairly distribute both gains and costs to players in a coalition game. In the recent decades, its application has been extended to other areas such as marketing, engineering and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-19 Liuqing Yang , Yongdao Zhou , Haoda Fu , Min-Qian Liu , Wei Zheng

A chain is an ordering of the integers 1 to n such that adjacent pairs have sums of a particular form, such as squares, cubes, triangular numbers, pentagonal numbers, or Fibonacci numbers. For example 4 1 2 3 5 form a Fibonacci chain while…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Elwyn Berlekamp , Richard K. Guy

We explain how the prototype automatic chess problem composer, Chesthetica, successfully composed a rare and interesting chess problem using the new Digital Synaptic Neural Substrate (DSNS) computational creativity approach. This problem…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Azlan Iqbal

Powerful artificial intelligence systems are often used in settings where they must interact with agents that are computationally much weaker, for example when they work alongside humans or operate in complex environments where some tasks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Karim Hamade , Reid McIlroy-Young , Siddhartha Sen , Jon Kleinberg , Ashton Anderson

This study introduces the \emph{edge-based Shapley value}, a novel allocation rule within cooperative game theory, specifically tailored for networked systems, where value is generated through interactions represented by edges. Traditional…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Taiki Yamada , Taisuke Matsubae , Tomoya Akamatsu

In a combinatorial exchange setting, players place sell (resp. buy) bids on combinations of traded goods. Besides the question of finding an optimal selection of winning bids, the question of how to share the obtained profit is of high…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-30 T. Heller , S. O. Krumke

In this paper, we study the problem of evaluating the addition of elements to a set. This problem is difficult, because it can, in the general case, not be reduced to unconditional preferences between the choices. Therefore, we model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Timo Bertram , Johannes Fürnkranz , Martin Müller

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) offer a promising near-term approach to finding optimal quantum strategies for playing non-local games. These games test quantum correlations beyond classical limits and enable entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Sarah Chehade , Andrea Delgado , Elaine Wong

We present here the new insight or revisiting the algorithm for playing in Chess with incomplete information (which can be recognized by its newly short-name as Phoenix-Chess strategy). The only difference with respect to the classical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-09-12 Sergey Ershkov , Millana Ershkova

Mastering games is a hard task, as games can be extremely complex, and still fundamentally different in structure from one another. While the AlphaZero algorithm has demonstrated an impressive ability to learn the rules and strategy of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Tomas Rigaux , Hisashi Kashima

We consider the problem of ranking $N$ objects starting from a set of noisy pairwise comparisons provided by a crowd of equal workers. We assume that objects are endowed with intrinsic qualities and that the probability with which an object…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Evgenia Christoforou , Alessandro Nordio , Alberto Tarable , Emilio Leonardi

We generalize Rock Paper Scissors to complete directed graphs, or tournaments, on $n$ vertices. Properties of the mixed-strategy Nash equilibria of these tournaments are discussed, particularly those with Nash equilibria where all of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Adrian Thananopavarn

We investigate the application of the Shapley value to quantifying the contribution of a tuple to a query answer. The Shapley value is a widely known numerical measure in cooperative game theory and in many applications of game theory for…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Ester Livshits , Leopoldo Bertossi , Benny Kimelfeld , Moshe Sebag

The field of deep learning has seen significant advancement in recent years. However, much of the existing work has been focused on real-valued numbers. Recent work has shown that a deep learning system using the complex numbers can be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Chase Gaudet , Anthony Maida