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Zero-sum games are a fundamental setting for adversarial training and decision-making in multi-agent learning (MAL). Existing methods often ensure convergence to (approximate) Nash equilibria by introducing a form of regularization. Yet,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tuo Zhang , Leonardo Stella

The max-min fair allocation problem seeks an allocation of resources to players that maximizes the minimum total value obtained by any player. Each player $p$ has a non-negative value $v_{pr}$ on resource $r$. In the restricted case, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Siu-Wing Cheng , Yuchen Mao

Boolean games are a succinct representation of strategic games wherein a player seeks to satisfy a formula of propositional logic by selecting a truth assignment to a set of propositional variables under his control. The framework has…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Egor Ianovski

In this paper, we introduce a two-player zero-sum framework between a trainable \emph{Solver} and a \emph{Data Generator} to improve the generalization ability of deep learning-based solvers for Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). Grounded in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Chenguang Wang , Yaodong Yang , Oliver Slumbers , Congying Han , Tiande Guo , Haifeng Zhang , Jun Wang

We consider the celebrated Blackwell Approachability Theorem for two-player games with vector payoffs. We show that Blackwell's result is equivalent, via efficient reductions, to the existence of "no-regret" algorithms for Online Linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-11-10 Jacob Abernethy , Peter L. Bartlett , Elad Hazan

We show that, for a continuous set of entangled four-partite states, the task of maximizing the payoff in the symmetric-strategy four-player quantum Minority game is equivalent to maximizing the violation of a four-particle Bell inequality…

We study two-player zero-sum recursive games with a countable state space and finite action spaces at each state. When the family of $n$-stage values $\{v_n,n\geq 1\}$ is totally bounded for the uniform norm, we prove the existence of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Xiaoxi Li , Xavier Venel

The paper proposes a natural measure space of zero-sum perfect information games with upper semicontinuous payoffs. Each game is specified by the game tree, and by the assignment of the active player and of the capacity to each node of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-22 János Flesch , Arkadi Predtetchinski , Ville Suomala

In this article we study the convergence of the Nash Equilibria in a N-player differential game towards the optimal strategies in the Mean Field Games, when the dynamic of the generic player includes a reflection process which guarantees…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Michele Ricciardi

We show that the output of a ReLU neural network can be interpreted as the value of a zero-sum, turn-based, stopping game, which we call the ReLU net game. The game runs in the direction opposite to that of the network, and the input of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Stephane Gaubert , Yiannis Vlassopoulos

This paper introduces state abstraction for two-player zero-sum Markov games (TZMGs), where the payoffs for the two players are determined by the state representing the environment and their respective actions, with state transitions…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Hiroki Ishibashi , Kenshi Abe , Atsushi Iwasaki

Decoding strategies play a pivotal role in text generation for modern language models, yet a puzzling gap divides theory and practice. Surprisingly, strategies that should intuitively be optimal, such as Maximum a Posteriori (MAP), often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Sijin Chen , Omar Hagrass , Jason M. Klusowski

This paper examines multiplayer symmetric constant-sum games with more than two players in a competitive setting, including examples like Mahjong, Poker, and various board and video games. In contrast to two-player zero-sum games,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Jiawei Ge , Yuanhao Wang , Wenzhe Li , Chi Jin

We study the optimization problem faced by a perfectly informed principal in a Bayesian game, who reveals information to the players about the state of nature to obtain a desirable equilibrium. This signaling problem is the natural design…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Umang Bhaskar , Yu Cheng , Young Kun Ko , Chaitanya Swamy

Game theory is central to the understanding of competitive interactions arising in many fields, from the social and physical sciences to economics. Recently, as the definition of information is generalized to include entangled quantum…

Game theory is the mathematical framework for analyzing strategic interactions in conflict and competition situations. In recent years quantum game theory has earned the attention of physicists, and has emerged as a branch of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Puya Sharif , Hoshang Heydari

This paper is a twofold contribution. First, it contributes to the problem of enumerating some classes of simple games and in particular provides the number of weighted games with minimum and the number of weighted games for the dual class…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Josep Freixas , Sascha Kurz

We introduce several methods of decomposition for two player normal form games. Viewing the set of all games as a vector space, we exhibit explicit orthonormal bases for the subspaces of potential games, zero-sum games, and their orthogonal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-19 Sung-Ha Hwang , Luc Rey-Bellet

In cooperative game theory, the primary focus is the equitable allocation of payoffs or costs among agents. However, in the practical applications of cooperative games, accurately representing games is challenging. In such cases, using an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Soh Kumabe , Yuichi Yoshida

This paper studies two-player zero-sum games played on graphs and makes contributions toward the following question: given an objective, how much memory is required to play optimally for that objective? We study regular objectives, where…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Patricia Bouyer , Nathanaël Fijalkow , Mickael Randour , Pierre Vandenhove