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We discuss a modification of the Evolutionary Minority Game (EMG) in which agents are placed in the nodes of a regular or a random graph. A neighborhood for each agent can thus be defined and a modification of the usual relaxation dynamics…

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Artificial intelligence techniques are increasingly being applied to solve control problems, but often rely on black-box methods without transparent output generation. To improve the interpretability and transparency in control systems,…

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This paper presents a hybrid adaptive Nash equilibrium solver for distributed multi-agent systems incorporating game-theoretic jump triggering mechanisms. The approach addresses fundamental scalability and computational challenges in…

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Coevolution of two species is typically thought to favour the evolution of faster evolutionary rates helping a species keep ahead in the Red Queen race, where `it takes all the running you can do to stay where you are'. In contrast, if…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-04-23 Chaitanya S. Gokhale , Arne Traulsen

Inspired by the path coordination problem arising from robo-taxis, warehouse management, and mixed-vehicle routing problems, we model a group of heterogeneous players responding to stochastic demands as a congestion game under Markov…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Sarah H. Q. Li , Dan Calderone , Behcet Acikmese

Ensuring robust safety alignment is crucial for Large Language Models (LLMs), yet existing defenses often lag behind evolving adversarial attacks due to their \textbf{reliance on static, pre-collected data distributions}. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Xiaoyu Wen , Zhida He , Han Qi , Ziyu Wan , Zhongtian Ma , Ying Wen , Tianhang Zheng , Xingcheng Xu , Chaochao Lu , Qiaosheng Zhang

Distributed coevolutionary Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) training has empirically shown success in overcoming GAN training pathologies. This is mainly due to diversity maintenance in the populations of generators and discriminators…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Jamal Toutouh , Erik Hemberg , Una-May O'Reilly

In this work we present a new method of black-box optimization and constraint satisfaction. Existing algorithms that have attempted to solve this problem are unable to consider multiple modes, and are not able to adapt to changes in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Kourosh Hakhamaneshi , Keertana Settaluri , Pieter Abbeel , Vladimir Stojanovic

In a Stackelberg congestion game (SCG), a leader aims to maximize their own gain by anticipating and manipulating the equilibrium state at which the followers settle by playing a congestion game. Often formulated as bilevel programs,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Jiayang Li , Jing Yu , Qianni Wang , Boyi Liu , Zhaoran Wang , Yu Marco Nie

Evolution Strategies (ES) are a powerful class of blackbox optimization techniques that recently became a competitive alternative to state-of-the-art policy gradient (PG) algorithms for reinforcement learning (RL). We propose a new method…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Yunhao Tang , Krzysztof Choromanski , Alp Kucukelbir

A central task in control theory, artificial intelligence, and formal methods is to synthesize reward-maximizing strategies for agents that operate in partially unknown environments. In environments modeled by gray-box Markov decision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Christel Baier , Clemens Dubslaff , Patrick Wienhöft , Stefan J. Kiebel

Genomic selection (GS) is a technique that plant breeders use to select individuals to mate and produce new generations of species. Allocation of resources is a key factor in GS. At each selection cycle, breeders are facing the choice of…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-26 Saba Moeinizade , Guiping Hu , Lizhi Wang

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) lies at the heart of a plethora of applications involving the interaction of a group of agents in a shared unknown environment. A prominent framework for studying MARL is Markov games, with the goal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Tong Yang , Bo Dai , Lin Xiao , Yuejie Chi

The distributed computation of a Nash equilibrium (NE) for non-cooperative games is gaining increased attention recently. Due to the nature of distributed systems, privacy and communication efficiency are two critical concerns. Traditional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-09 Xiaomeng Chen , Wei Huo , Kemi Ding , Subhrakanti Dey , Ling Shi

Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (CMARL) has shown to be promising for many real-world applications. Previous works mainly focus on improving coordination ability via solving MARL-specific challenges (e.g., non-stationarity,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Lei Yuan , Zi-Qian Zhang , Ke Xue , Hao Yin , Feng Chen , Cong Guan , Li-He Li , Chao Qian , Yang Yu

Learning in games provides a powerful framework to design control policies for self-interested agents that may be coupled through their dynamics, costs, or constraints. We consider the case where the dynamics of the coupled system can be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Mostafa M. Shibl , Vijay Gupta

We consider an integro-differential model for evolutionary game theory which describes the evolution of a population adopting mixed strategies. Using a reformulation based on the first moments of the solution, we prove some analytical…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2011-12-19 A. Boccabella , R. Natalini , L. Pareschi

In this paper, a novel approach for joint power control and user scheduling is proposed for optimizing energy efficiency (EE), in terms of bits per unit power, in ultra dense small cell networks (UDNs). To address this problem, a dynamic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Sumudu Samarakoon , Mehdi Bennis , Walid Saad , Mérouane Debbah , Matti Latva-aho

We study mechanisms of synchronisation, coordination, and equilibrium selection in two-player coordination games on multilayer networks. We apply the approach from evolutionary game theory with three possible update rules: the replicator…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-22 Tomasz Raducha , Maxi San Miguel

Min-max saddle point games have recently been intensely studied, due to their wide range of applications, including training Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). However, most of the recent efforts for solving them are limited to special…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Babak Barazandeh , Tianjian Huang , George Michailidis