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Similar to what happens between humans in the real world, in open multi-agent systems distributed over the Internet, such as online social networks or wiki technologies, agents often form coalitions by agreeing to act as a whole in order to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-10-27 Matteo Cristani , Erisa Karafili , Luca Viganò

Network games provide a natural machinery to compactly represent strategic interactions among agents whose payoffs exhibit sparsity in their dependence on the actions of others. Besides encoding interaction sparsity, however, real networks…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Kun Jin , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Mingyan Liu

Multiplayer online battle arena has become a popular game genre. It also received increasing attention from our research community because they provide a wealth of information about human interactions and behaviors. A major problem is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Anna Sapienza , Alessandro Bessi , Emilio Ferrara

Decision making in modern large-scale and complex systems such as communication networks, smart electricity grids, and cyber-physical systems motivate novel game-theoretic approaches. This paper investigates big strategic (non-cooperative)…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Tansu Alpcan , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Christopher Leckie

Classical coding-theoretic guarantees often rely on trust assumptions, such as requiring sufficiently many honest nodes compared with adversarial ones. These assumptions are difficult to enforce in open decentralized systems where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hanzaleh Akbari Nodehi , Parsa Moradi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

Stochastic games are a popular framework for studying multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Recent advances in MARL have focused primarily on games with finitely many states. In this work, we study multi-agent learning in stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Awni Altabaa , Bora Yongacoglu , Serdar Yüksel

Distributed decision-makers are modeled as players in a game with two levels. High level decisions concern the game environment and determine the willingness of the players to form a coalition (or group). Low level decisions involve the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-28 Edward A. Billard

We consider clustering player behavior and learning the optimal team composition for multiplayer online games. The goal is to determine a set of descriptive play style groupings and learn a predictor for win/loss outcomes. The predictor…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Hao Yi Ong , Sunil Deolalikar , Mark Peng

We study coalition structure formation with intra and inter-coalition externalities in the introduced family of nested non-cooperative simultaneous finite games. A non-cooperative game embeds a coalition structure formation mechanism, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Dmitry Levando

Coordination and cooperation between humans and autonomous agents in cooperative games raises interesting questions of human decision making and behaviour changes. Here we report our findings from a group formation game in a small-world…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-21 Tuomas Takko , Kunal Bhattacharya , Daniel Monsivais , Kimmo Kaski

Large language model-based (LLM-based) agents have become common in settings that include non-cooperative parties. In such settings, agents' decision-making needs to conceal information from their adversaries, reveal information to their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Mustafa O. Karabag , Jan Sobotka , Ufuk Topcu

The analysis of (social) networks and multi-agent systems is a central theme in Artificial Intelligence. Some line of research deals with finding groups of agents that could work together to achieve a certain goal. To this end, different…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Emmanuel Arrighi , Zhidan Feng , Henning Fernau , Kevin Mann , Xingqin Qi , Petra Wolf

We explore the behaviour emerging from learning agents repeatedly interacting strategically for a wide range of learning dynamics, including $Q$-learning, projected gradient, replicator and log-barrier dynamics. Going beyond the better…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Galit Askenazi-Golan , Domenico Mergoni Cecchelli , Edward Plumb , Clemens Possnig

This paper investigates a class of games with large strategy spaces, motivated by challenges in AI alignment and language games. We introduce the hidden game problem, where for each player, an unknown subset of strategies consistently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Gon Buzaglo , Noah Golowich , Elad Hazan

Sequential reasoning is a complex human ability, with extensive previous research focusing on gaming AI in a single continuous game, round-based decision makings extending to a sequence of games remain less explored. Counter-Strike: Global…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Yilei Zeng , Deren Lei , Beichen Li , Gangrong Jiang , Emilio Ferrara , Michael Zyda

Human social behavior is structured by relationships. We form teams, groups, tribes, and alliances at all scales of human life. These structures guide multi-agent cooperation and competition, but when we observe others these underlying…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Michael Shum , Max Kleiman-Weiner , Michael L. Littman , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Learning competitive behaviors in multi-agent settings such as racing requires long-term reasoning about potential adversarial interactions. This paper presents Deep Latent Competition (DLC), a novel reinforcement learning algorithm that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Wilko Schwarting , Tim Seyde , Igor Gilitschenski , Lucas Liebenwein , Ryan Sander , Sertac Karaman , Daniela Rus

Recent breakthroughs in AI for multi-agent games like Go, Poker, and Dota, have seen great strides in recent years. Yet none of these games address the real-life challenge of cooperation in the presence of unknown and uncertain teammates.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Jack Serrino , Max Kleiman-Weiner , David C. Parkes , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Despite many distributed resource allocation (DRA) algorithms have been reported in literature, it is still unknown how to allocate the resource optimally over multiple interacting coalitions. One major challenge in solving such a problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Jialing Zhou , Guanghui Wen , Yuezu Lv , Tao Yang , Guanrong Chen

In many settings, machine learning models may be used to inform decisions that impact individuals or entities who interact with the model. Such entities, or agents, may game model decisions by manipulating their inputs to the model to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Trenton Chang , Lindsay Warrenburg , Sae-Hwan Park , Ravi B. Parikh , Maggie Makar , Jenna Wiens