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We consider the problem of simultaneous learning in stochastic games with many players in the finite-horizon setting. While the typical target solution for a stochastic game is a Nash equilibrium, this is intractable with many players. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-27 William Brown

Robots and autonomous systems must interact with one another and their environment to provide high-quality services to their users. Dynamic game theory provides an expressive theoretical framework for modeling scenarios involving multiple…

We introduce a new solution concept for bounded rational agents in finite normal-form general-sum games called Generalized Quantal Response Equilibrium (GQRE) which generalizes Quantal Response Equilibrium~\citep{mckelvey1995quantal}. In…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Apurv Shukla , Vijay Subramanian , Andy Zhao , Rahul Jain

A receding horizon learning scheme is proposed to transfer the state of a discrete-time dynamical control system to zero without the need of a system model. Global state convergence to zero is proved for the class of stabilizable and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-16 Christian Ebenbauer , Fabian Pfitz , Shuyou Yu

This paper is concerned with a linear-quadratic non-zero sum differential game with asymmetric delayed information. To be specific, two players exist time delays simultaneously which are different, leading the dynamical system being an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Yuxin Ye , Jingtao Shi

The paper investigates the long-time behavior of zero-sum linear-quadratic stochastic differential games, aiming to demonstrate that, under appropriate conditions, both the saddle strategy and the optimal state process exhibit the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Jingrui Sun , Jiongmin Yong

We develop a flexible stochastic approximation framework for analyzing the long-run behavior of learning in games (both continuous and finite). The proposed analysis template incorporates a wide array of popular learning algorithms,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Volkan Cevher

Computing Nash equilibrium policies is a central problem in multi-agent reinforcement learning that has received extensive attention both in theory and in practice. However, provable guarantees have been thus far either limited to fully…

A fundamental problem in noncooperative dynamic game theory is the computation of Nash equilibria under different information structures, which specify the information available to each agent during decision-making. Prior work has…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Janani S K , Kushagra Gupta , Ufuk Topcu , David Fridovich-Keil

A novel modelling framework is proposed for the analysis of aggregative games on an infinite-time horizon, assuming that players are subject to heterogeneous periodic constraints. A new aggregative equilibrium notion is presented and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-04 Filiberto Fele , Antonio De Paola , David Angeli , Goran Strbac

In this letter, we study dynamic game optimal control with imperfect state observations and introduce an iterative method to find a local Nash equilibrium. The algorithm consists of an iterative procedure combining a backward recursion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Armand Jordana , Bilal Hammoud , Justin Carpentier , Ludovic Righetti

Multi-agent learning algorithms have been shown to display complex, unstable behaviours in a wide array of games. In fact, previous works indicate that convergent behaviours are less likely to occur as the total number of agents increases.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Aamal Hussain , Dan Leonte , Francesco Belardinelli , Georgios Piliouras

We study an infinite-horizon discrete-time optimal stopping problem under non-exponential discounting. A new method, which we call the iterative approach, is developed to find subgame perfect Nash equilibria. When the discount function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Yu-Jui Huang , Zhou Zhou

We present a policy iteration algorithm for the infinite-horizon N-player general-sum deterministic linear quadratic dynamic games and compare it to policy gradient methods. We demonstrate that the proposed policy iteration algorithm is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Yuxiang Guan , Giulio Salizzoni , Maryam Kamgarpour , Tyler H. Summers

This paper investigates a fully distributed adaptive Nash equilibrium (NE) seeking algorithm for constrained noncooperative games with prescribed-time stability. On the one hand, prescribed-time stability for the proposed NE seeking…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Sichen Qian

The inverse linear-quadratic optimal control problem is a system identification problem whose aim is to recover the quadratic cost function and hence the closed-loop system matrices based on observations of optimal trajectories. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-22 Han Zhang , Axel Ringh

Network games have been instrumental in understanding strategic behaviors over networks for applications such as critical infrastructure networks, social networks, and cyber-physical systems. One critical challenge of network games is that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-24 Guanze Peng , Tao Li , Shutian Liu , Juntao Chen , Quanyan Zhu

In this paper, we consider discrete-time partially observed mean-field games with the risk-sensitive optimality criterion. We introduce risk-sensitivity behaviour for each agent via an exponential utility function. In the game model, each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-11 Naci Saldi , Tamer Basar , Maxim Raginsky

We study generalized games with full row rank equality constraints and we provide a strikingly simple proof of strong monotonicity of the associated KKT operator. This allows us to show linear convergence to a variational equilibrium of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Mattia Bianchi , Emilio Benenati , Sergio Grammatico

We consider the problem of learning stable matchings with unknown preferences in a decentralized and uncoordinated manner, where "decentralized" means that players make decisions individually without the influence of a central platform, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-16 S. Rasoul Etesami , R. Srikant