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We examine two-player games over finite weighted graphs with quantitative (mean-payoff or energy) objective, where one of the players additionally needs to satisfy a fairness objective. The specific fairness we consider is called 'strong…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Ashwani Anand , Satya Prakash Nayak , Ritam Raha , Irmak Sağlam , Anne-Kathrin Schmuck

A central question in routing games has been to establish conditions for the uniqueness of the equilibrium, either in terms of network topology or in terms of costs. This question is well understood in two classes of routing games. The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-01 Eitan Altman , Corinne Touati

Many emerging applications - such as adversarial training, AI alignment, and robust optimization - can be framed as zero-sum games between neural nets, with von Neumann-Nash equilibria (NE) capturing the desirable system behavior. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Deep Patel , Emmanouil-Vasileios Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis

The isolation game is played on a graph $G$ by two players who take turns playing a vertex such that if $X$ is the set of already played vertices, then a vertex can be selected only if it dominates a vertex from a nontrivial component of $G…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Csilla Bujtás , Tanja Dravec , Michael A. Henning , Sandi Klavžar

In this work, we introduce graphical modelsfor multi-player game theory, and give powerful algorithms for computing their Nash equilibria in certain cases. An n-player game is given by an undirected graph on n nodes and a set of n local…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Michael Kearns , Michael L. Littman , Satinder Singh

We consider a class of jump games in which agents of different types occupy the nodes of a graph aiming to maximize the variety of types in their neighborhood. In particular, each agent derives a utility equal to the number of types…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Lata Narayanan , Jaroslav Opatrny , Shanmukha Tummala , Alexandros A. Voudouris

We study new classes of games, called zero-sum equivalent games and zero-sum equivalent potential games, and prove decomposition theorems involving these classes of games. We say that two games are "strategically equivalent" if, for every…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Sung-Ha Hwang , Luc Rey-Bellet

Consider a set of agents who play a network game repeatedly. Agents may not know the network. They may even be unaware that they are interacting with other agents in a network. Possibly, they just understand that their payoffs depend on an…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-07-26 Pierpaolo Battigalli , Fabrizio Panebianco , Paolo Pin

We consider a game for a continuum of non-identical players evolving on a finite state space. Their heterogeneous interactions are represented by a graphon, which can be viewed as the limit of a dense random graph. The player's transition…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Alexander Aurell , Rene Carmona , Gokce Dayanikli , Mathieu Lauriere

The domination game is an optimization game played by two players, Dominator and Staller, who alternately select vertices in a graph $G$. A vertex is said to be dominated if it has been selected or is adjacent to a selected vertex. Each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-03 Leo Versteegen

We consider a sub-class of bi-matrix games which we refer to as two-person (hereafter referred to as two-player) additively-separable sum (TPASS) games, where the sum of the pay-offs of the two players is additively separable. The row…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Somdeb Lahiri

We consider correlated equilibria in strategic games in an adversarial environment, where an adversary can compromise the public signal used by the players for choosing their strategies, while players aim at detecting a potential attack as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Kiarash Kazari , Aris Kanellopoulos , György Dán

We introduce Shortest Connection Game, a two-player game played on a directed graph with edge costs. Given two designated vertices in which they start, the players take turns in choosing edges emanating from the vertex they are currently…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-26 Andreas Darmann , Ulrich Pferschy , Joachim Schauer

We study a two-player game on a graph between an attacker and a defender. To begin with, the defender places guards on a subset of vertices. In each move, the attacker attacks an edge. The defender must move at least one guard across the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Neeldhara Misra , Saraswati Girish Nanoti

In finite games mixed Nash equilibria always exist, but pure equilibria may fail to exist. To assess the relevance of this nonexistence, we consider games where the payoffs are drawn at random. In particular, we focus on games where a large…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Ben Amiet , Andrea Collevecchio , Marco Scarsini , Ziwen Zhong

We establish the existence and uniqueness of distributed equilibria to possibly nonsymmetric $N$ player differential games with interactions through controls under displacement semimonotonicity assumptions. Surprisingly, the nonseparable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Hei Jie Lam , Alpár R. Mészáros

We consider 2-player zero-sum stochastic games where each player controls his own state variable living in a compact metric space. The terminology comes from gambling problems where the state of a player represents its wealth in a casino.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-23 Rida Laraki , Jérôme Renault

We introduce Contested Logistics Games, a variant of logistics problems that account for the presence of an adversary that can disrupt the movement of goods in selected areas. We model this as a large two-player zero-sum one-shot game…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Jakub Cerny , Chun Kai Ling , Darshan Chakrabarti , Jingwen Zhang , Gabriele Farina , Christian Kroer , Garud Iyengar

In this paper, we introduce a graph coloring game called the Edge-Distinguishing Game (EDGe). The edge-distinguishing chromatic number of a graph is used to determine the moves each player can make. We determine which player has a winning…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Nathaniel Benjamin , Elisa Benthem , Cooper Burkel , Marissa Chesser , Mike Janssen

Many emerging problems involve teams of agents taking part in a game. Such problems require a stochastic analysis with regard to the correlation structures among the agents belonging to a given team. In the context of Standard Borel spaces,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-27 Ian Hogeboom-Burr , Serdar Yüksel