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In many applications, we want to influence the decisions of independent agents by designing incentives for their actions. We revisit a fundamental problem in this area, called GAME IMPLEMENTATION: Given a game in standard form and a set of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Jiehua Chen , Sebastian Vincent Haydn , Negar Layegh Khavidaki , Sofia Simola , Manuel Sorge

This paper provides a comprehensive review of mainly GNN, DRL, and PTM methods with a focus on their potential incorporation in strategic multiagent settings. We draw interest in (i) ML methods currently utilized for uncovering unknown…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Georgios Chalkiadakis , Charilaos Akasiadis , Gerasimos Koresis , Stergios Plataniotis , Leonidas Bakopoulos

Min-max problems are important in multi-agent sequential decision-making because they improve the performance of the worst-performing agent in the network. However, solving the multi-agent min-max problem is challenging. We propose a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Alexandros E. Tzikas , Jinkyoo Park , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Ross E. Allen

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong reasoning, planning, and communication abilities, enabling them to operate as autonomous agents in open environments. While single-agent systems remain limited in adaptability and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Jianing Hao , Han Ding , Yuanjian Xu , Tianze Sun , Ran Chen , Wanbo Zhang , Guang Zhang , Siguang Li

Multi-agent predictive modeling is an essential step for understanding physical, social and team-play systems. Recently, Interaction Networks (INs) were proposed for the task of modeling multi-agent physical systems, INs scale with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Yedid Hoshen

We consider the problem of predicting human players' actions in repeated strategic interactions. Our goal is to predict the dynamic step-by-step behavior of individual players in previously unseen games. We study the ability of neural…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Yoav Kolumbus , Gali Noti

Examining the behavior of multi-agent systems is vitally important to many emerging distributed applications - game theory has emerged as a powerful tool set in which to do so. The main approach of game-theoretic techniques is to model…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Rohit Konda , Rahul Chandan , Jason Marden

In this paper, we consider the problem of path finding for a set of homogeneous and autonomous agents navigating a previously unknown stochastic environment. In our problem setting, each agent attempts to maximize a given utility function…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Sheryl Paul , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh

Traditional reinforcement learning and planning typically requires vast amounts of data and training to develop effective policies. In contrast, large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong generalization and zero-shot capabilities, but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Jonathan Light , Min Cai , Weiqin Chen , Guanzhi Wang , Xiusi Chen , Wei Cheng , Yisong Yue , Ziniu Hu

We apply decision theoretic techniques to construct non-player characters that are able to assist a human player in collaborative games. The method is based on solving Markov decision processes, which can be difficult when the game state is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-27 Truong-Huy Dinh Nguyen , David Hsu , Wee-Sun Lee , Tze-Yun Leong , Leslie Pack Kaelbling , Tomas Lozano-Perez , Andrew Haydn Grant

We investigate multi-agent navigation tasks, where multiple agents need to reach initially unassigned goals in a limited time. Classical planning-based methods suffer from expensive computation overhead at each step and offer limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Xinyi Yang , Xinting Yang , Chao Yu , Jiayu Chen , Wenbo Ding , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

Game theory provides an effective way to model strategic interactions among rational agents. In the context of formal verification, these ideas can be used to produce guarantees on the correctness of multi-agent systems, with a diverse…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Marta Kwiatkowska , Gethin Norman , David Parker , Gabriel Santos

We consider a class of dynamic collective choice models with social interactions, whereby a large number of non-uniform agents have to individually settle on one of multiple discrete alternative choices, with the relevance of their would-be…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Rabih Salhab , Roland P. Malhamé , Jerome Le Ny

Games have long been a microcosm for studying planning and reasoning in both natural and artificial intelligence, especially with a focus on expert-level or even super-human play. But real life also pushes human intelligence along a…

The strategic selection of resources by selfish agents has long been a key area of research, with Resource Selection Games and Congestion Games serving as prominent examples. In these traditional frameworks, agents choose from a set of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Henri Zeiler

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

Modeling the strategic behavior of agents in a real-world multi-agent system using existing state-of-the-art computational game-theoretic tools can be a daunting task, especially when only the actions taken by the agents can be observed.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Boshen Wang , Luis E. Ortiz

Probabilistic forecasting relies on past observations to provide a probability distribution for a future outcome, which is often evaluated against the realization using a scoring rule. Here, we perform probabilistic forecasting with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-06 Lorenzo Pacchiardi , Rilwan Adewoyin , Peter Dueben , Ritabrata Dutta

We consider a pursuit-evasion game [11] played between two agents, 'Blue' (the pursuer) and 'Red' (the evader), over $T$ time steps. Red aims to attack Blue's territory. Blue's objective is to intercept Red by time $T$ and thereby limit the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Shiva Navabi , Osonde A. Osoba

This paper uses category theory to develop an entirely new approach to approximate game theory. Game theory is the study of how different agents within a multi-agent system take decisions. At its core, game theory asks what an optimal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Neil Ghani