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We investigate the equilibrium stability and robustness in a class of moving target defense problems, in which players have both incomplete information and asymmetric cognition. We first establish a Bayesian Stackelberg game model for…

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This paper investigates strategic interactions within a three party deception security game involving a defender, an insider, and external attackers. We propose a robust deception mechanism where the leader manipulates game parameters…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Xiaoyu Xin , Gehui Xu , Yiguang Hong

We study a general class of dynamic games with asymmetric information where agents' beliefs are strategy dependent, i.e. signaling occurs. We show that the notion of sufficient information, introduced in the companion paper team, can be…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Hamidreza Tavafoghi , Yi Ouyang , Demosthenis Teneketzis

Two fundamental problems in computational game theory are computing a Nash equilibrium and learning to exploit opponents given observations of their play (opponent exploitation). The latter is perhaps even more important than the former:…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Sam Ganzfried , Qingyun Sun

Many multi-agent interaction scenarios can be naturally modeled as noncooperative games, where each agent's decisions depend on others' future actions. However, deploying game-theoretic planners for autonomous decision-making requires a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yash Jain , Xinjie Liu , Lasse Peters , David Fridovich-Keil , Ufuk Topcu

This paper studies a multi-player, general-sum stochastic game characterized by a dual-stage temporal structure per period. The agents face uncertainty regarding the time-evolving state that is realized at the beginning of each period.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Tao Zhang , Quanyan Zhu

Trajectory planning involving multi-agent interactions has been a long-standing challenge in the field of robotics, primarily burdened by the inherent yet intricate interactions among agents. While game-theoretic methods are widely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Zhenmin Huang , Yusen Xie , Benshan Ma , Shaojie Shen , Jun Ma

Bayesian persuasion is a model for understanding strategic information revelation: an agent with an informational advantage, called a sender, strategically discloses information by sending signals to another agent, called a receiver. In…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Kaito Fujii , Shinsaku Sakaue

We study a target coverage problem in which a team of sensing agents, operating under limited communication, must collaboratively monitor targets that may be adaptively repositioned by an attacker. We model this interaction as a zero-sum…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Jayanth Bhargav , Zirui Xu , Vasileios Tzoumas , Mahsa Ghasemi , Shreyas Sundaram

Current research in distributed Nash equilibrium (NE) seeking in the partial information setting assumes that information is exchanged between agents that are "truthful". However, in general noncooperative games agents may consider sending…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Dian Gadjov , Lacra Pavel

We consider finite-horizon and infinite-horizon versions of a dynamic game with $N$ selfish players who observe their types privately and take actions that are publicly observed. Players' types evolve as conditionally independent Markov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Deepanshu Vasal , Abhinav Sinha , Achilleas Anastasopoulos

Optimal transport (OT) is a framework that can be used to guide the optimal allocation of a limited amount of resources. The classical OT paradigm does not consider malicious attacks in its formulation and thus the designed transport plan…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Jason Hughes , Juntao Chen

Deception plays a critical role in many interactions in communication and network security. Game-theoretic models called "cheap talk signaling games" capture the dynamic and information asymmetric nature of deceptive interactions. But…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Jeffrey Pawlick , Quanyan Zhu

In this paper, we study the use of deception for strategic planning in adversarial environments. We model the interaction between the agent (player 1) and the adversary (player 2) as a two-player concurrent game in which the adversary has…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Lening Li , Haoxiang Ma , Abhishek N. Kulkarni , Jie Fu

This paper addresses the question whether model knowledge can guide a defender to appropriate decisions, or not, when an attacker intrudes into control systems. The model-based defense scheme considered in this study, namely Bayesian…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Hampei Sasahara , Henrik Sandberg

In multi-agent autonomous systems, deception is a fundamental concept which characterizes the exploitation of unbalanced information to mislead victims into choosing oblivious actions. This effectively alters the system's long term…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Michael Tang , Miroslav Krstic , Jorge Poveda

Many autonomous agents, such as intelligent vehicles, are inherently required to interact with one another. Game theory provides a natural mathematical tool for robot motion planning in such interactive settings. However, tractable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Xinjie Liu , Lasse Peters , Javier Alonso-Mora

We study Bayesian coordination games where agents receive noisy private information over the game's payoff structure, and over each others' actions. If private information over actions is precise, we find that agents can coordinate on…

General Economics · Economics 2019-04-25 Dominik Grafenhofer , Wolfgang Kuhle

Game-theoretic motion planners are a potent solution for controlling systems of multiple highly interactive robots. Most existing game-theoretic planners unrealistically assume a priori objective function knowledge is available to all…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Makram Chahine , Roya Firoozi , Wei Xiao , Mac Schwager , Daniela Rus

We develop a scheme based on active learning to compute equilibria in a generalized Nash equilibrium problem (GNEP). Specifically, an external observer (or entity), with little knowledge on the multi-agent process at hand, collects sensible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Barbara Franci , Filippo Fabiani , Alberto Bemporad