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We study the problem of designing mechanisms for \emph{information acquisition} scenarios. This setting models strategic interactions between an uniformed \emph{receiver} and a set of informed \emph{senders}. In our model the senders…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Federico Cacciamani , Matteo Castiglioni , Nicola Gatti

Identifying the actual adversarial threat against a system vulnerability has been a long-standing challenge for cybersecurity research. To determine an optimal strategy for the defender, game-theoretic based decision models have been widely…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Siddhant Bhambri , Purv Chauhan , Frederico Araujo , Adam Doupé , Subbarao Kambhampati

The concept of cyber deception has been receiving emerging attention. The development of cyber defensive deception techniques requires interdisciplinary work, among which cognitive science plays an important role. In this work, we adopt a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Yinan Hu , Quanyan Zhu

Deception plays a key role in adversarial or strategic interactions for the purpose of self-defence and survival. This paper introduces a general framework and solution to address deception. Most existing approaches for deception consider…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Bo Wu , Murat Cubuktepe , Suda Bharadwaj , Ufuk Topcu

We study nondeterministic strategies in parity games with the aim of computing a most permissive winning strategy. Following earlier work, we measure permissiveness in terms of the average number/weight of transitions blocked by the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Patricia Bouyer , Nicolas Markey , Jörg Olschewski , Michael Ummels

The mean-field framework has been used to find approximate solutions to problems involving very large populations of symmetric, anonymous agents, which may be intractable by other methods. The cooperative mean-field control (MFC) problem…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Patrick Benjamin , Alessandro Abate

We consider the problem of coded computing, where a computational task is performed in a distributed fashion in the presence of adversarial workers. We propose techniques to break the adversarial toleration threshold barrier previously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Mahdi Soleymani , Ramy E. Ali , Hessam Mahdavifar , A. Salman Avestimehr

Recently coded caching has emerged as a promising means to handle continuously increasing wireless traffic. However, coded caching requires users to cooperate in order to minimize the overall transmission rate. How users with heterogeneous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Yawei Lu , Wei Chen , H. Vincent Poor

Despite incredible advances, deep learning has been shown to be susceptible to adversarial attacks. Numerous approaches have been proposed to train robust networks both empirically and certifiably. However, most of them defend against only…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Yimu Wang , Dinghuai Zhang , Yihan Wu , Heng Huang , Hongyang Zhang

This paper seeks to establish a framework for directing a society of simple, specialized, self-interested agents to solve what traditionally are posed as monolithic single-agent sequential decision problems. What makes it challenging to use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Michael Chang , Sidhant Kaushik , S. Matthew Weinberg , Thomas L. Griffiths , Sergey Levine

A central goal in algorithmic game theory is to analyze the performance of decentralized multiagent systems, like communication and information networks. In the absence of a central planner who can enforce how these systems are utilized,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Vasilis Gkatzelis , Kostas Kollias , Alkmini Sgouritsa , Xizhi Tan

We study deception in adversarial graph traversal, where a mobile agent seeks to reach a goal with minimum cost while an adversary alters edge costs to increase the total traversal cost. Unlike prior works that assume fixed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Violetta Rostobaya , James Berneburg , Daigo Shishika

Applying neural network (NN) methods in games can lead to various new and exciting game dynamics not previously possible. However, they also lead to new challenges such as the lack of large, clean datasets, varying player skill levels, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Mathias Löwe , Jennifer Villareale , Evan Freed , Aleksanteri Sladek , Jichen Zhu , Sebastian Risi

This paper introduces a systematic methodological framework to design and analyze distributed algorithms for optimization and games over networks. Starting from a centralized method, we identify an aggregation function involving all the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Guido Carnevale , Nicola Mimmo , Giuseppe Notarstefano

Blockchain protocols incentivize participation through monetary rewards, assuming rational actors behave honestly to maximize their gains. However, attackers may attempt to harm others even at personal cost. These denial of profit attacks…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Arian Baloochestani , Leander Jehl

Currently the Dempster-Shafer based algorithm and Uniform Random Probability based algorithm are the preferred method of resolving security games, in which defenders are able to identify attackers and only strategy remained ambiguous.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Hossein Khani , Mohsen Afsharchi

We study a class of games, in which the adversary (attacker) is to satisfy a complex mission specified in linear temporal logic, and the defender is to prevent the adversary from achieving its goal. A deceptive defender can allocate decoys,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Abhishek N. Kulkarni , Jie Fu , Huan Luo , Charles A. Kamhoua , Nandi O. Leslie

In this paper, we investigate the coordination of autonomous devices with non-aligned utility functions. Both encoder and decoder are considered as players, that choose the encoding and the decoding in order to maximize their long-run…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Maël Le Treust , Tristan Tomala

Multi-player multi-armed bandit is an increasingly relevant decision-making problem, motivated by applications to cognitive radio systems. Most research for this problem focuses exclusively on the settings that players have \textit{full…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Guojun Xiong , Jian Li

A decentralized blockchain is a distributed ledger that is often used as a platform for exchanging goods and services. This ledger is maintained by a network of nodes that obeys a set of rules, called a consensus protocol, which helps to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Lucy Klinger , Lei Zhang , Zhennan Zhou