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Routing games are used to to understand the impact of individual users' decisions on network efficiency. Most prior work on routing games uses a simplified model of network flow where all flow exists simultaneously, and users care about…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Umang Bhaskar , Lisa Fleischer , Elliot Anshelevich

Most research on adaptive decision-making takes a strategy-first approach, proposing a method of solving a problem and then examining whether it can be implemented in the brain and in what environments it succeeds. We present a method for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-21 Peter Kvam , Joseph Cesario , Jory Schossau , Heather Eisthen , Arend Hintze

This paper investigates a class of games with large strategy spaces, motivated by challenges in AI alignment and language games. We introduce the hidden game problem, where for each player, an unknown subset of strategies consistently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Gon Buzaglo , Noah Golowich , Elad Hazan

To make good decisions in the real world people need efficient planning strategies because their computational resources are limited. Knowing which planning strategies would work best for people in different situations would be very useful…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Saksham Consul , Lovis Heindrich , Jugoslav Stojcheski , Falk Lieder

Animal behavior and evolution can often be described by game-theoretic models. Although in many situations, the number of players is very large, their strategic interactions are usually decomposed into a sum of two-player games. Only…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Dominik Kaminski , Jacek Miekisz , Marcin Zaborowski

In Keynesian Beauty Contests notably modeled by p-guessing games, players try to guess the average of guesses multiplied by p. Convergence of plays to Nash equilibrium has often been justified by agents' learning. However, interrogations…

General Economics · Economics 2021-03-29 Aymeric Vie

In this study, we explore the application of game theory, in particular Stackelberg games, to address the issue of effective coordination strategy generation for heterogeneous robots with one-way communication. To that end, focusing on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Yuhan Zhao , Baichuan Huang , Jingjin Yu , Quanyan Zhu

Strategic classification studies the problem where self-interested individuals or agents manipulate their response to obtain favorable decision outcomes made by classifiers, typically turning to dishonest actions when they are less costly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ziyuan Huang , Lina Alkarmi , Mingyan Liu

A game theoretic distributed decision making approach is presented for the problem of control effort allocation in a robotic team based on a novel variant of fictitious play. The proposed learning process allows the robots to accomplish…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Michalis Smyrnakis , Sandor M. Veres

We initiate the study of structured Stackelberg games, a novel form of strategic interaction between a leader and a follower where contextual information can be predictive of the follower's (unknown) type. Motivated by applications such as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Maria-Florina Balcan , Kiriaki Fragkia , Keegan Harris

The outcome of many social and economic interactions, such as stock-market transactions, is strongly determined by the predictions that agents make about the behavior of other individuals. Cognitive Hierarchy Theory provides a framework to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-04 Carlos Gracia-Lázaro , Luis M. Floría , Yamir Moreno

In a social system, the self-interest of agents can be detrimental to the collective good, sometimes leading to social dilemmas. To resolve such a conflict, a central designer may intervene by either redesigning the system or incentivizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Jiayang Li , Jing Yu , Yu Marco Nie , Zhaoran Wang

We study decentralized equilibrium selection in stochastic games under severe information and communication constraints. In such settings, convergence to equilibrium alone is insufficient, as stochastic games typically admit many equilibria…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Seref Taha Kiremitci , Ahmed Said Donmez , Muhammed O. Sayin

Deceptive game designs that manipulate players are increasingly common in the gaming industry, but the impact on players is not well studied. While studies have revealed player frustration, there is a gap in understanding how cultural…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Hilda Hadan , Sabrina A. Sgandurra , Leah Zhang-Kennedy , Lennart E. Nacke

People make strategic decisions many times a day - during negotiations, when coordinating actions with others, or when choosing partners for cooperation. The resulting dynamics can be studied with learning theory and evolutionary game…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-26 Marta C. Couto , Fernando P. Santos , Christian Hilbe

Although dynamic games provide a rich paradigm for modeling agents' interactions, solving these games for real-world applications is often challenging. Many real-world interactive settings involve general nonlinear state and input…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Maulik Bhatt , Yixuan Jia , Negar Mehr

Prevalence of cooperation within groups of selfish individuals is puzzling in that it contradicts with the basic premise of natural selection. Favoring players with higher fitness, the latter is key for understanding the challenges faced by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-08 Matjaz Perc , Attila Szolnoki

Prior work has studied the computational complexity of computing optimal strategies to commit to in Stackelberg or leadership games, where a leader commits to a strategy which is observed by one or more followers. We extend this setting to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Nathaniel Sauerberg , Caspar Oesterheld

We investigate a multi-agent decision problem in population games where each agent in a population makes a decision on strategy selection and revision to engage in repeated games with others. The strategy revision is subject to time delays…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-12 Shinkyu Park

Human reasoning involves different strategies, each suited to specific problems. Prior work shows that large language model (LLMs) tend to favor a single reasoning strategy, potentially limiting their effectiveness in diverse reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Yanjian Zhang , Guillaume Wisniewski , Nadi Tomeh , Thierry Charnois