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We investigate whether having a unique equilibrium (or a given number of equilibria) is robust to perturbation of the payoffs, both for Nash equilibrium and correlated equilibrium. We show that the set of n-player finite games with a unique…

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We consider a controlled linear-quadratic (LQ) large-population system with mixture of three types agents: major leader, minor leaders and minor followers. The Stackelberg-Nash-Cournot (SNC) approximate equilibrium is studied by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Kehan Si , James Huang , Zhen Wu

Quantal response equilibrium (QRE), a statistical generalization of Nash equilibrium, is a standard benchmark in the analysis of experimental data. Despite its influence, nonparametric characterizations and tests of QRE are unavailable…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-03-19 Evan Friedman , Duarte Gonçalves

In this paper, we study Nash equilibrium payoffs for nonzero-sum stochastic differential games via the theory of backward stochastic differential equations. We obtain an existence theorem and a characterization theorem of Nash equilibrium…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-11-30 Qian Lin

Dynamic games offer a versatile framework for modeling the evolving interactions of strategic agents, whose steady-state behavior can be captured by the Nash equilibria of the games. Nash equilibria are often computed in feedback, with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Chih-Yuan Chiu , Jingqi Li , Maulik Bhatt , Negar Mehr

This paper is concerned with a linear quadratic stochastic two-person zero-sum differential game with constant coefficients in an infinite time horizon. Open-loop and closed-loop saddle points are introduced. The existence of closed-loop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-30 Jingrui Sun , Jiongmin Yong , Shuguang Zhang

We consider coalition formation among players in an n-player finite strategic game over infinite horizon. At each time a randomly formed coalition makes a joint deviation from a current action profile such that at new action profile all…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Vikas Vikram Singh

This paper investigates a zero-sum stochastic linear-quadratic (SLQ, for short) Stackelberg differential game problem, where the coefficients of the state equation and the weighting matrices in the performance functional are regulated by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Fan Wu , Xun Li , Jie Xiong , Xin Zhang

We study two person nonzero-sum stochastic differential games with risk-sensitive discounted and ergodic cost criteria. Under certain conditions we establish a Nash equilibrium in Markov strategies for the discounted cost criterion and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-06 Mrinal K. Ghosh , K. Suresh Kumar , Chandan Pal

Zero-sum games arise in a wide variety of problems, including robust optimization and adversarial learning. However, algorithms deployed for finding a local Nash equilibrium in these games often converge to non-Nash stationary points. This…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kushagra Gupta , Xinjie Liu , Ross Allen , Ufuk Topcu , David Fridovich-Keil

This paper is concerned with the closed-loop solvability of one kind of linear-quadratic Stackelberg stochastic differential game, where the coefficients are deterministic. The notion of the closed-loop solvability is introduced, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Zixuan Li , Jingtao Shi

In this paper we establish a new connection between a class of 2-player nonzero-sum games of optimal stopping and certain $2$-player nonzero-sum games of singular control. We show that whenever a Nash equilibrium in the game of stopping is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Tiziano De Angelis , Giorgio Ferrari

In the context of multi-player, general-sum games, there is an increasing interest in solution concepts modeling some form of communication among players, since they can lead to socially better outcomes with respect to Nash equilibria, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Andrea Celli , Alberto Marchesi , Tommaso Bianchi , Nicola Gatti

This paper is concerned with a new class of mean-field games which involve a finite number of agents. Necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained for the existence of the decentralized open-loop Nash equilibrium in terms of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Bing-Chang Wang , Huanshui Zhang , Minyue Fu , Yong Liang

We investigate the set of Nash equilibrium payoffs for two person differential games. The main result of the paper is the characterization of the set of Nash equilibrium payoffs in the terms of nonsmooth analysis. Also we obtain the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Yurii Averboukh

We present an efficient algorithm to compute the explicit open-loop solution to both finite and infinite-horizon dynamic games subject to state and input constraints. Our approach relies on a multiparametric affine variational inequality…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Emilio Benenati , Giuseppe Belgioioso

We study the robust Nash equilibrium (RNE) for a class of games in communications systems and networks where the impact of users on each other is an additive function of their strategies. Each user measures this impact, which may be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-21 Saeedeh Parsaeefard , Ahmad R. Sharafat , Mihaela van der Schaar

In this paper, we address the inverse problem in the case of linear-quadratic discrete-time dynamic non-cooperative games. Given feedback laws of players that are known to be a Nash equilibrium pair for a discrete-time linear system, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Emin Martirosyan , Ming Cao

We study a multi-player stochastic differential game, where agents interact through their joint price impact on an asset that they trade to exploit a common trading signal. In this context, we prove that a closed-loop Nash equilibrium…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-06-23 Alessandro Micheli , Johannes Muhle-Karbe , Eyal Neuman

We introduce a new algorithm for the numerical computation of Nash equilibria of competitive two-player games. Our method is a natural generalization of gradient descent to the two-player setting where the update is given by the Nash…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Florian Schäfer , Anima Anandkumar