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Under what conditions do the behaviors of players, who play a game repeatedly, converge to a Nash equilibrium? If one assumes that the players' behavior is a discrete-time or continuous-time rule whereby the current mixed strategy profile…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Jason Milionis , Christos Papadimitriou , Georgios Piliouras , Kelly Spendlove

As demonstrated by Ratliff et al. (2014), inverse optimization can be used to recover the objective function parameters of players in multi-player Nash games. These games involve the optimization problems of multiple players in which the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Stephanie Allen , John P. Dickerson , Steven A. Gabriel

This paper proposes a novel approach for local convergence to Nash equilibrium in quadratic noncooperative games based on a distributed Lie-bracket extremum seeking control scheme. This is the first instance of noncooperative games being…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Victor Hugo Pereira Rodrigues , Tiago Roux Oliveira , Miroslav Krstic , Tamer Basar

Linear-quadratic Gaussian games provide a framework for modeling strategic interactions in multi-agent systems, where agents must estimate system states from noisy observations while also making decisions to optimize a quadratic cost.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Tianyu Qiu , Filippos Fotiadis , Xinjie Liu , Christian Ellis , Jesse Milzman , Wesley Suttle , Ufuk Topcu , David Fridovich-Keil

This paper aims at investigating the problem of fast convergence to the Nash equilibrium (NE) for N-Player noncooperative differential games. The proposed method is such that the players attain their NE point without steady-state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-13 Zahra Zahedi , Alireza Khayatian , Mohammad Mehdi Arefi , Shen Yin

Cooperative games are those in which both agents share the same payoff structure. Value-based reinforcement-learning algorithms, such as variants of Q-learning, have been applied to learning cooperative games, but they only apply when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Leonid Peshkin , Kee-Eung Kim , Nicolas Meuleau , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

Cooperative games are those in which both agents share the same payoff structure. Value-based reinforcement-learning algorithms, such as variants of Q-learning, have been applied to learning cooperative games, but they only apply when the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-08-08 Leonid Peshkin , Kee-Eung Kim , Nicolas Meuleau , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

In this paper, we consider the inverse optimal control problem for the discrete-time linear quadratic regulator, over finite-time horizons. Given observations of the optimal trajectories, and optimal control inputs, to a linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-31 Han Zhang , Jack Umenberger , Xiaoming Hu

A fundamental problem in noncooperative dynamic game theory is the computation of Nash equilibria under different information structures, which specify the information available to each agent during decision-making. Prior work has…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Janani S K , Kushagra Gupta , Ufuk Topcu , David Fridovich-Keil

We study a distributionally robust optimization formulation (i.e., a min-max game) for two representative problems in Bayesian nonparametric estimation: Gaussian process regression and, more generally, linear inverse problems. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Xuhui Zhang , Jose Blanchet , Youssef Marzouk , Viet Anh Nguyen , Sven Wang

A growing number of machine learning architectures, such as Generative Adversarial Networks, rely on the design of games which implement a desired functionality via a Nash equilibrium. In practice these games have an implicit complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Gabriel P. Andrade , Rafael Frongillo , Georgios Piliouras

Considering linear-quadratic discrete-time games with unknown input/output/state (i/o/s) dynamics and state, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of feedback Nash equilibria (FNE) in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Shengyuan Huang , Xiaoguang Yang , Zhigang Cao , Wenjun Mei

This paper considers risk-averse learning in convex games involving multiple agents that aim to minimize their individual risk of incurring significantly high costs. Specifically, the agents adopt the conditional value at risk (CVaR) as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Zifan Wang , Yi Shen , Michael M. Zavlanos , Karl H. Johansson

In this paper we introduce the discontinuous universal feedback for the problem of Nash equilibrium in two person non-zero sum differential game. We assume that there exist functions satisfying some conditions analogous to the infinitesimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-22 Yurii Averboukh

This paper investigates the encirclement control problem involving two groups using a non-cooperative differential game approach. The active group seeks to chase and encircle the passive group, while the passive group responds by fleeing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Panpan Zhou , Yueyue Xu , Yibei Li , Bo Wahlberg , Xiaoming Hu

In game-theoretic learning, several agents are simultaneously following their individual interests, so the environment is non-stationary from each player's perspective. In this context, the performance of a learning algorithm is often…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Yu-Guan Hsieh , Kimon Antonakopoulos , Panayotis Mertikopoulos

We consider the problem of discounted optimal state-feedback regulation for general unknown deterministic discrete-time systems. It is well known that open-loop instability of systems, non-quadratic cost functions and complex nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Alexandros Tanzanakis , John Lygeros

In this paper, we study inverse game theory (resp. inverse multiagent learning) in which the goal is to find parameters of a game's payoff functions for which the expected (resp. sampled) behavior is an equilibrium. We formulate these…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Denizalp Goktas , Amy Greenwald , Sadie Zhao , Alec Koppel , Sumitra Ganesh

This paper studies the linear quadratic regulation (LQR) problem of unknown discrete-time systems via dynamic output feedback learning control. In contrast to the state feedback, the optimality of the dynamic output feedback control for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Kedi Xie , Martin Guay , Shimin Wang , Fang Deng , Maobin Lu

The game-theoretic risk management framework put forth in the precursor work "Towards a Theory of Games with Payoffs that are Probability-Distributions" (arXiv:1506.07368 [q-fin.EC]) is herein extended by algorithmic details on how to…

General Economics · Economics 2020-04-10 Stefan Rass