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In mean-payoff games, the objective of the protagonist is to ensure that the limit average of an infinite sequence of numeric weights is nonnegative. In energy games, the objective is to ensure that the running sum of weights is always…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-17 Yaron Velner , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen , Thomas A. Henzinger , Alexander Rabinovich , Jean-Francois Raskin

Ensuring that AI systems make strategic decisions aligned with the specified preferences in adversarial sequential interactions is a critical challenge for developing trustworthy AI systems, especially when the environment is stochastic and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Abhishek Ninad Kulkarni , Jie Fu , Ufuk Topcu

In this paper, we study two-player zero-sum turn-based games played on a finite multidimensional weighted graph. In recent papers all dimensions use the same measure, whereas here we allow to combine different measures. Such heterogeneous…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Véronique Bruyère , Quentin Hautem , Jean-François Raskin

The beyond worst-case threshold problem (BWC), recently introduced by Bruy\`ere et al., asks given a quantitative game graph for the synthesis of a strategy that i) enforces some minimal level of performance against any adversary, and ii)…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Lorenzo Clemente , Jean-François Raskin

Mean-payoff games play a central role in quantitative synthesis and verification. In a single-dimensional game a weight is assigned to every transition and the objective of the protagonist is to assure a non-negative limit-average weight.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Yaron Velner

We study stochastic zero-sum games on graphs, which are prevalent tools to model decision-making in presence of an antagonistic opponent in a random environment. In this setting, an important question is the one of strategy complexity: what…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Patricia Bouyer , Youssouf Oualhadj , Mickael Randour , Pierre Vandenhove

Two-player games on graphs is central in many problems in formal verification and program analysis such as synthesis and verification of open systems. In this work we consider solving recursive game graphs (or pushdown game graphs) that can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Yaron Velner

Traditionally quantitative games such as mean-payoff games and discount sum games have two players -- one trying to maximize the payoff, the other trying to minimize it. The associated decision problem, "Can Eve (the maximizer) achieve, for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Paul Hunter , Jean-François Raskin

The window mechanism was introduced by Chatterjee et al. to strengthen classical game objectives with time bounds. It permits to synthesize system controllers that exhibit acceptable behaviors within a configurable time frame, all along…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Thomas Brihaye , Florent Delgrange , Youssouf Oualhadj , Mickael Randour

In this paper, we study the notion of adversarial Stackelberg value for two-player non-zero sum games played on bi-weighted graphs with the mean-payoff and the discounted sum functions. The adversarial Stackelberg value of Player 0 is the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Emmanuel Filiot , Raffaella Gentilini , Jean-François Raskin

We study a sequential estimation problem for an unknown reward in the presence of a random horizon. The reward takes one of two predetermined values which can be inferred from the drift of a Wiener process, which serves as a signal. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Steven Campbell , Georgy Gaitsgori , Richard Groenewald , Ioannis Karatzas

In two-player games on graph, the players construct an infinite path through the game graph and get a reward computed by a payoff function over infinite paths. Over weighted graphs, the typical and most studied payoff functions compute the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-19 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen , Rohit Singh

We consider the problem of computing the maximal probability of satisfying an omega-regular specification for stochastic nonlinear systems evolving in discrete time. The problem reduces, after automata-theoretic constructions, to finding…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-30 Rupak Majumdar , Kaushik Mallik , Anne-Kathrin Schmuck , Sadegh Soudjani

We consider two-player partial-observation stochastic games on finite-state graphs where player 1 has partial observation and player 2 has perfect observation. The winning condition we study are \omega-regular conditions specified as parity…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-15 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen , Sumit Nain , Moshe Y. Vardi

In \emph{zero-sum two-player hidden stochastic games}, players observe partial information about the state. We address: $(i)$ the existence of the \emph{uniform value}, i.e., a limiting average payoff that both players can guarantee for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Krishnendu Chatterjee , David Lurie , Raimundo Saona , Bruno Ziliotto

We consider two-player stochastic games played on a finite state space for an infinite number of rounds. The games are concurrent: in each round, the two players (player 1 and player 2) choose their moves independently and simultaneously;…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Krishnendu Chatterjee

We examine perfect information stochastic mean-payoff games - a class of games containing as special sub-classes the usual mean-payoff games and parity games. We show that deterministic memoryless strategies that are optimal for discounted…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-09 Hugo Gimbert , Wiesław Zielonka

We present an approach for systematically anticipating the actions and policies employed by \emph{oblivious} environments in concurrent stochastic games, while maximizing a reward function. Our main contribution lies in the synthesis of a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Shadi Tasdighi Kalat , Sriram Sankaranarayanan , Ashutosh Trivedi

We study the computational complexity of solving stochastic games with mean-payoff objectives. Instead of identifying special classes in which simple strategies are sufficient to play $\epsilon$-optimally, or form $\epsilon$-Nash…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Sougata Bose , Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen , Patrick Totzke

We study a class of two-player zero-sum stochastic games known as \textit{blind stochastic games}, where players neither observe the state nor receive any information about it during the game. A central concept for analyzing long-duration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Krishnendu Chatterjee , David Lurie , Raimundo Saona , Bruno Ziliotto