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In resource contribution games, a class of non-cooperative games, the players want to obtain a bundle of resources and are endowed with bags of bundles of resources that they can make available into a common for all to enjoy. Available…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Nicolas Troquard

Solving Nash equilibrium is the key challenge in normal-form games with large strategy spaces, where open-ended learning frameworks offer an efficient approach. In this work, we propose an innovative unified open-ended learning framework…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Yudong Hu , Haoran Li , Congying Han , Tiande Guo , Mingqiang Li , Bonan Li

This paper provides the first expert sample complexity characterization for learning a Nash equilibrium from expert data in Markov Games. We show that a new quantity named the single policy deviation concentrability coefficient is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Till Freihaut , Luca Viano , Volkan Cevher , Matthieu Geist , Giorgia Ramponi

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly intelligent---in some cases, achieving superhuman performance---there is growing potential for humans to learn from and collaborate with algorithms. However, the ways in which AI systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Reid McIlroy-Young , Siddhartha Sen , Jon Kleinberg , Ashton Anderson

We study the repeated congestion game, in which multiple populations of players share resources, and make, at each iteration, a decentralized decision on which resources to utilize. We investigate the following question: given a model of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-04 Walid Krichene , Benjamin Drighès , Alexandre M. Bayen

A fundamental shortcoming of the concept of Nash equilibrium is its computational intractability: approximating Nash equilibria in normal-form games is PPAD-hard. In this paper, inspired by the ideas of smoothed analysis, we introduce a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Constantinos Daskalakis , Noah Golowich , Nika Haghtalab , Abhishek Shetty

This paper deals with the complexity of the problem of computing a pure Nash equilibrium for discrete preference games and network coordination games beyond $O(\log n)$-treewidth and tree metric spaces. First, we estimate the number of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Takashi Ishizuka , Naoyuki Kamiyama

Self-play reinforcement learning has demonstrated significant success in learning complex strategic and interactive behaviors in competitive multi-agent games. However, achieving such behaviors in continuous decision spaces remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Akash Karthikeyan , Yash Vardhan Pant

Understanding the behavior of no-regret dynamics in general $N$-player games is a fundamental question in online learning and game theory. A folk result in the field states that, in finite games, the empirical frequency of play under…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Lampros Flokas , Emmanouil-Vasileios Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis , Thanasis Lianeas , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Georgios Piliouras

A Nash Equilibrium (NE) is a strategy profile resilient to unilateral deviations, and is predominantly used in the analysis of multiagent systems. A downside of NE is that it is not necessarily stable against deviations by coalitions. Yet,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Michal Feldman , Tami Tamir

Autonomous systems can substantially enhance a human's efficiency and effectiveness in complex environments. Machines, however, are often unable to observe the preferences of the humans that they serve. Despite the fact that the human's and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-29 Agostino Capponi , Reza Ghanadan , Matt Stern

Game theory has grown into a major field over the past few decades, and poker has long served as one of its key case studies. Game-Theory-Optimal (GTO) provides strategies to avoid loss in poker, but pure GTO does not guarantee maximum…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 SeungHyun Yi , Seungjun Yi

Recent advances in multiagent learning have seen the introduction ofa family of algorithms that revolve around the population-based trainingmethod PSRO, showing convergence to Nash, correlated and coarse corre-lated equilibria. Notably,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Paul Muller , Mark Rowland , Romuald Elie , Georgios Piliouras , Julien Perolat , Mathieu Lauriere , Raphael Marinier , Olivier Pietquin , Karl Tuyls

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has become the standard approach for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences, allowing LLMs to demonstrate remarkable abilities in various tasks. Existing methods work…

Modelling agent preferences has applications in a range of fields including economics and increasingly, artificial intelligence. These preferences are not always known and thus may need to be estimated from observed behavior, in which case…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Daniel Chui , Jason Hartline , James R. Wright

This paper studies random reshuffling (RR)-based distributed Nash equilibrium seeking for noncooperative games. The game is motivated as a sample-average approximation of an underlying expected-value stochastic game, while the algorithmic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Jun Hu , Chao Sun , Chen Bo , Jianzheng Wang , Zheming Wang

In this paper we propose a Bayesian game to allocate resources. In this game, there are $c$ units of resources to be allocated to $n$ players. Agent $i$ has a demand of $V_i$ units of resources and takes action $X_i$ according to a strategy…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Duan-Shin Lee

The decisions that human beings make to allocate time has significant bearing on economic output and to the sustenance of social networks. The time allocation problem motivates our formal analysis of the resource allocation game, where…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Wei-Chun Lee , Vasilis Livanos , Ruta Mehta , Hari Sundaram

Optimization of parameterized policies for reinforcement learning (RL) is an important and challenging problem in artificial intelligence. Among the most common approaches are algorithms based on gradient ascent of a score function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Sriram Srinivasan , Marc Lanctot , Vinicius Zambaldi , Julien Perolat , Karl Tuyls , Remi Munos , Michael Bowling

Predicting player behavior in strategic games, especially complex ones like chess, presents a significant challenge. The difficulty arises from several factors. First, the sheer number of potential outcomes stemming from even a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Benny Skidanov , Daniel Erbesfeld , Gera Weiss , Achiya Elyasaf