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Reinforcement learning (RL) with tree search has demonstrated superior performance in traditional reasoning tasks. Compared to conventional independent chain sampling strategies with outcome supervision, tree search enables better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Zhenyu Hou , Ziniu Hu , Yujiang Li , Rui Lu , Jie Tang , Yuxiao Dong

Routing games are used to to understand the impact of individual users' decisions on network efficiency. Most prior work on routing games uses a simplified model of network flow where all flow exists simultaneously, and users care about…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Umang Bhaskar , Lisa Fleischer , Elliot Anshelevich

Tree matching techniques have been investigated in many fields, including web data mining and extraction, as a key component to analyze the content of web documents, existing tree matching approaches, like Tree-Edit Distance (TED) or…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Sacha Brisset , Romain Rouvoy , Renaud Pawlak , Lionel Seinturier

Designing agents that are able to achieve different play-styles while maintaining a competitive level of play is a difficult task, especially for games for which the research community has not found super-human performance yet, like…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Diego Perez-Liebana , Cristina Guerrero-Romero , Alexander Dockhorn , Linjie Xu , Jorge Hurtado , Dominik Jeurissen

For a two-player imperfect-information extensive-form game (IIEFG) with $K$ time steps and a player action space of size $U$, the game tree complexity is $U^{2K}$, causing existing IIEFG solvers to struggle with large or infinite $(U,K)$,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Mukesh Ghimire , Lei Zhang , Zhe Xu , Yi Ren

We study generalized games with full row rank equality constraints and we provide a strikingly simple proof of strong monotonicity of the associated KKT operator. This allows us to show linear convergence to a variational equilibrium of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Mattia Bianchi , Emilio Benenati , Sergio Grammatico

Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) has achieved state-of-the-art results in many domains such as Go and Atari games when combining with deep neural networks (DNNs). When more simulations are executed, MCTS can achieve higher performance but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Li-Cheng Lan , Meng-Yu Tsai , Ti-Rong Wu , I-Chen Wu , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Matching tile games are an extremely popular game genre. Arguably the most popular iteration, Match-3 games, are simple to understand puzzle games, making them great benchmarks for research. In this paper, we propose developing different…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Luvneesh Mugrai , Fernando de Mesentier Silva , Christoffer Holmgård , Julian Togelius

This paper studies policy optimization algorithms for multi-agent reinforcement learning. We begin by proposing an algorithm framework for two-player zero-sum Markov Games in the full-information setting, where each iteration consists of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Runyu Zhang , Qinghua Liu , Huan Wang , Caiming Xiong , Na Li , Yu Bai

We develop a quasi-polynomial time Las Vegas algorithm for approximating Nash equilibria in polymatrix games over trees, under a mild renormalizing assumption. Our result, in particular, leads to an expected polynomial-time algorithm for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Siddharth Barman , Katrina Ligett , Georgios Piliouras

Parity games have witnessed several new quasi-polynomial algorithms since the breakthrough result of Calude et al. (STOC 2017). The combinatorial object underlying these approaches is a universal tree, as identified by Czerwi\'nski et al.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zhuan Khye Koh , Georg Loho

When a game involves many agents or when communication between agents is not possible, it is useful to resort to distributed learning where each agent acts in complete autonomy without any information on the other agents' situations.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Jérôme Taupin , Xavier Leturc , Christophe J. Le Martret

The fast-growing demand for fully autonomous aerial operations in shared spaces necessitates developing trustworthy agents that can safely and seamlessly navigate in crowded, dynamic spaces. In this work, we propose Social Robot Tree Search…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Ingrid Navarro , Jay Patrikar , Joao P. A. Dantas , Rohan Baijal , Ian Higgins , Sebastian Scherer , Jean Oh

Games are natural models for multi-agent machine learning settings, such as generative adversarial networks (GANs). The desirable outcomes from algorithmic interactions in these games are encoded as game theoretic equilibrium concepts, e.g.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Gabriel P. Andrade , Rafael Frongillo , Georgios Piliouras

This paper describes three different optimised implementations of playouts, as commonly used by game-playing algorithms such as Monte-Carlo Tree Search. Each of the optimised implementations is applicable only to specific sets of games,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Dennis J. N. J. Soemers , Éric Piette , Matthew Stephenson , Cameron Browne

We introduce and study the problem of planning a trajectory for an agent to carry out a scouting mission while avoiding being detected by an adversarial guard. This introduces an adversarial version of classical visibility-based planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Zhongshun Zhang , Yoonchang Sung , Lifeng Zhou , Jonathon M. Smereka , Joseph Lee , Pratap Tokekar

We investigate pruning in search trees of so-called quantified integer linear programs (QIPs). QIPs consist of a set of linear inequalities and a minimax objective function, where some variables are existentially and others are universally…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Michael Hartisch , Ulf Lorenz

We introduce the study of search games between a mobile Searcher and an immobile Hider in a new setting in which the Searcher has some potentially erroneous information, i.e., a prediction on the Hider's position. The objective is to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Spyros Angelopoulos , Thomas Lidbetter , Konstantinos Panagiotou

In this paper, we study proximal type dynamics in the context of noncooperative multi-agent network games. These dynamics arise in different applications, since they describe distributed decision making in multi-agent networks, e.g., in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-26 Carlo Cenedese , Giuseppe Belgioioso , Yu Kawano , Sergio Grammatico , Ming Cao

This paper presents the first experimental evaluation of four previously untested modifications of Unbounded Best-First Minimax algorithm. This algorithm explores the game tree by iteratively expanding the most promising sequences of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Quentin Cohen-Solal , Tristan Cazenave