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This article considers a problem arising from a two-player game based on the classical secretary problem. First, Player 1 selects one object from a sequence as in the secretary problem. All of the other objects are then presented to Player…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-09 David Ramsey

Stochastic games are a popular framework for studying multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Recent advances in MARL have focused primarily on games with finitely many states. In this work, we study multi-agent learning in stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Awni Altabaa , Bora Yongacoglu , Serdar Yüksel

We introduce a framework for decentralized online learning for multi-armed bandits (MAB) with multiple cooperative players. The reward obtained by the players in each round depends on the actions taken by all the players. It's a team…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 William Chang , Mehdi Jafarnia-Jahromi , Rahul Jain

Decentralized machine learning often relies on outsourcing computations, such as gradient evaluations, to untrusted worker nodes. Existing robust aggregation methods can mitigate malicious behavior under honest-majority assumptions, but may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Hanzaleh Akbari Nodehi , Parsa Moradi , Soheil Mohajer , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

Existing methods for learning Stackelberg equilibria typically assume that the followers' (variational, generalized) Nash equilibrium is unique. However, in the presence of multiple equilibria, without a selection convention, the problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Silvia Cianchi , Anibal Sanjab , Sergio Grammatico

Learning theory has largely focused on two main learning scenarios. The first is the classical statistical setting where instances are drawn i.i.d. from a fixed distribution and the second scenario is the online learning, completely…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-04-28 Alexander Rakhlin , Karthik Sridharan , Ambuj Tewari

We study a ubiquitous learning challenge in online principal-agent problems during which the principal learns the agent's private information from the agent's revealed preferences in historical interactions. This paradigm includes important…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Minbiao Han , Michael Albert , Haifeng Xu

Inspired by a military context, we study a Stackelberg production game where a country's government, the leader, wants to maximize the production of military assets. The leader does so by allocating his resources among a set of production…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-17 L. Schlicher , M. Musegaas , H. Blok

Demand-side management (DSM) enables distribution system operators (DSOs) to steer electricity consumption through dynamic price signals or incentive mechanisms, thereby leveraging end-users' flexibility potential for delivering grid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Silvia Cianchi , Reza Rahimi Baghbadorani , Anibal Sanjab , Sergio Grammatico

Distributed online optimization and game have been increasingly researched in the last decade, mostly motivated by its wide applications in sensor networks, robotics (e.g., distributed target tracking and formation control), smart grids,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Xiuxian Li , Lihua Xie , Na Li

The Stackelberg security game is played between a defender and an attacker, where the defender needs to allocate a limited amount of resources to multiple targets in order to minimize the loss due to adversarial attack by the attacker.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Rufan Bai , Haoxing Lin , Xinyu Yang , Xiaowei Wu , Minming Li , Weijia Jia

This article describes a novel game structure for autonomously optimizing decentralized manufacturing systems with multi-objective optimization challenges, namely Distributed Stackelberg Strategies in State-Based Potential Games (DS2-SbPG).…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Steve Yuwono , Dorothea Schwung , Andreas Schwung

We study two-sided matching markets in which one side of the market (the players) does not have a priori knowledge about its preferences for the other side (the arms) and is required to learn its preferences from experience. Also, we assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Lydia T. Liu , Feng Ruan , Horia Mania , Michael I. Jordan

While various multi-agent reinforcement learning methods have been proposed in cooperative settings, few works investigate how self-interested learning agents achieve mutual coordination in decentralized general-sum games and generalize…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Ziyi Liu , Xian Guo , Yongchun Fang

This paper is concerned with a linear-quadratic (LQ) Stackelberg mean field games of backward-forward stochastic systems, involving a backward leader and a substantial number of forward followers. The leader initiates by providing its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Wenyu Cong , Jingtao Shi

We study reputation formation where a long-run player repeatedly observes private signals and takes actions. Short-run players observe the long-run player's past actions but not her past signals. The long-run player can thus develop a…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-07-22 Daniel Luo , Alexander Wolitzky

Interdicting a criminal with limited police resources is a challenging task as the criminal changes location over time. The size of the large transportation network further adds to the difficulty of this scenario. To tackle this issue, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Sukanya Samanta , Kei Kimura , Makoto Yokoo , Palash Dey

We address two-player general-sum stochastic Stackelberg games (SSGs), where the leader's policy is optimized considering the best-response follower whose policy is optimal for its reward under the leader. Existing policy gradient and value…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mikoto Kudo , Youhei Akimoto

We investigate the linear quadratic Gaussian Stackelberg game under a class of nested observation information pattern. Two decision makers implement control strategies relying on different information sets: The follower uses its observation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Zhipeng Li , Damian Marelli , Minyue Fu , Huanshui Zhang

Multi-player multi-armed bandit is an increasingly relevant decision-making problem, motivated by applications to cognitive radio systems. Most research for this problem focuses exclusively on the settings that players have \textit{full…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Guojun Xiong , Jian Li