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We propose a general class of symmetric games called position-optimization games. Given a probability distribution $Q$ over a set of targets $\mathcal{Y}$, the $n$ players each choose a position in a space $\mathcal{X}$. A player's utility…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Rafael Frongillo , Melody Hsu , Mary Monroe , Anish Thilagar

We introduce NLK, a model that connects the Nash equilibrium (NE) and Level-K. It allows a player in a game to believe that her opponent may be either less or as sophisticated as, she is, a view supported in psychology. We apply NLK to data…

General Economics · Economics 2025-08-11 Dan Levin , Luyao Zhang

In this work, we focus on the concept of projected solutions for generalized Nash equilibrium problems. We present new existence results by considering sets of strategies that are not necessarily compact. The relationship between projected…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Calderón Carlos , Cotrina John

We consider a general-sum N-player linear-quadratic game with stochastic dynamics over a finite horizon and prove the global convergence of the natural policy gradient method to the Nash equilibrium. In order to prove the convergence of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Ben Hambly , Renyuan Xu , Huining Yang

Exploiting the algebraic structure of the set of bimatrix games, a divide-and-conquer algorithm for finding Nash equilibria is proposed. The algorithm is fixed-parameter tractable with the size of the largest irreducible component of a game…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Xiang Jiang , Arno Pauly

In this paper, we consider the problem of learning a generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) in strongly monotone games. First, we propose a novel continuous-time solution algorithm that uses regular projections and first-order information. As…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-23 Suad Krilašević , Sergio Grammatico

We extend the study of the complexity of finding an $\eps$-approximate Nash equilibrium in congestion games from the case of positive delay functions to delays of arbitrary sign. We first prove that in symmetric games with $\alpha$-bounded…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-08 Frederic Magniez , Michel de Rougemont , Miklos Santha , Xavier Zeitoun

We analyse the computational complexity of finding Nash equilibria in simple stochastic multiplayer games. We show that restricting the search space to equilibria whose payoffs fall into a certain interval may lead to undecidability. In…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-24 Michael Ummels , Dominik Wojtczak

Nash equilibrium (NE) is a central concept in game theory. Here we prove formally a published theorem on existence of an NE in two proof assistants, Coq and Isabelle: starting from a game with finitely many outcomes, one may derive a game…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Stéphane Le Roux , Érik Martin-Dorel , Jan-Georg Smaus

We characterize Nash equilibrium by postulating coherent behavior across varying games. Nash equilibrium is the only solution concept that satisfies the following axioms: (i) strictly dominant actions are played with positive probability,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-07-02 Florian Brandl , Felix Brandt

In this paper we present optimization problems with biconvex objective function and linear constraints such that the set of global minima of the optimization problems is the same as the set of Nash equilibria of a n-player general-sum…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Vinayaka Yaji , Shalabh Bhatnagar

If a game has a unique Nash equilibrium, then this equilibrium is arguably the solution of the game from the refinement's literature point of view. However, it might be that for almost all initial conditions, all strategies in the support…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-26 Yannick Viossat

Exploiting the algebraic structure of the set of bimatrix games, a divide-and-conquer algorithm for finding Nash equilibria is proposed. The algorithm is fixed-parameter tractable with the size of the largest irreducible component of a game…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Xiang Jiang , Arno Pauly

We study a new class of games which generalizes congestion games and its bottleneck variant. We introduce congestion games with mixed objectives to model network scenarios in which players seek to optimize for latency and bandwidths alike.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Matthias Feldotto , Lennart Leder , Alexander Skopalik

We address the problem of assessing the robustness of the equilibria in uncertain, multi-agent games. Specifically, we focus on generalized Nash equilibrium problems in aggregative form subject to linear coupling constraints affected by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Filippo Fabiani , Kostas Margellos , Paul J. Goulart

Nash equilibrium is the most commonly-used notion of equilibrium in game theory. However, it suffers from numerous problems. Some are well known in the game theory community; for example, the Nash equilibrium of repeated prisoner's dilemma…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Joseph Y. Halpern

In this brief note, we prove that the existence of Nash equilibria on integer programming games is $\Sigma^p_2$-complete.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Margarida Carvalho

We consider a symmetric two-player contest, in which the choice set of effort is constrained. We apply a fundamental property of the payoff function to show that, under standard assumptions, there exists a unique Nash equilibrium in pure…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-09-15 Doron Klunover , John Morgan

We consider payoff-based learning of a generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) in multi-agent systems. Our focus is on games with jointly convex constraints of a linear structure and strongly monotone pseudo-gradients. We present a convergent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Tatiana Tatarenko , Maryam Kamgarpour

We consider two classes of constrained finite state-action stochastic games. First, we consider a two player nonzero sum single controller constrained stochastic game with both average and discounted cost criterion. We consider the same…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-11 Vikas Vikram Singh , N. Hemachandra