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Research on promoting cooperation among autonomous, self-regarding agents has often focused on the bi-objective optimisation problem: minimising the total incentive cost while maximising the frequency of cooperation. However, the optimal…

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In last decades optimization and control of complex systems that possessed various conflicted objectives simultaneously attracted an incremental interest of scientists. This is because of the vast applications of these systems in various…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Ahmad Mozaffari , Alireza Fathi

We consider a cooperative multiplayer bandit learning problem where the players are only allowed to agree on a strategy beforehand, but cannot communicate during the learning process. In this problem, each player simultaneously selects an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 William Chang , Yuanhao Lu

In systems in which control authority is shared by an autonomous controller and a human operator, it is important to find solutions that achieve a desirable system performance with a reasonable workload for the human operator. We formulate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Jie Fu , Ufuk Topcu

While single-agent policy optimization in a fixed environment has attracted a lot of research attention recently in the reinforcement learning community, much less is known theoretically when there are multiple agents playing in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Shuang Qiu , Xiaohan Wei , Jieping Ye , Zhaoran Wang , Zhuoran Yang

We propose an online algorithm for cumulative regret minimization in a stochastic multi-armed bandit. The algorithm adds $O(t)$ i.i.d. pseudo-rewards to its history in round $t$ and then pulls the arm with the highest average reward in its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Branislav Kveton , Csaba Szepesvari , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Craig Boutilier

Self-Driven Particles (SDP) describe a category of multi-agent systems common in everyday life, such as flocking birds and traffic flows. In a SDP system, each agent pursues its own goal and constantly changes its cooperative or competitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Zhenghao Peng , Quanyi Li , Ka Ming Hui , Chunxiao Liu , Bolei Zhou

We study the $K$-Max combinatorial multi-armed bandits problem with continuous outcome distributions and weak value-index feedback: each base arm has an unknown continuous outcome distribution, and in each round the learning agent selects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yu Chen , Siwei Wang , Longbo Huang , Wei Chen

This paper addresses cooperative link scheduling problems for base station (BS) aided device-to-device (D2D) communications using limited channel state information (CSI) at BS. We first derive the analytical form of ergodic sum-spectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-15 Daeun Kim , Namyoon Lee

In this paper, we introduce a game theoretic framework for studying the problem of minimizing the completion time of instantly decodable network coding (IDNC) for cooperative data exchange (CDE) in decentralized wireless network. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-16 Ahmed Douik , Sameh Sorour , Hamidou Tembine , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Non-cooperative games serve as a powerful framework for capturing the interactions among self-interested players and have broad applicability in modeling a wide range of practical scenarios, ranging from power management to drug delivery.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-08 Yuanhanqing Huang , Jianghai Hu

We study Pareto optimality in multi-objective multi-armed bandit by providing a formulation of adversarial multi-objective multi-armed bandit and defining its Pareto regrets that can be applied to both stochastic and adversarial settings.…

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We study the cooperative stochastic $k$-armed bandit problem, where a network of $m$ agents collaborate to find the optimal action. In contrast to most prior work on this problem, which focuses on extending a specific algorithm to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Benjamin Howson , Sarah Filippi , Ciara Pike-Burke

Imperfect-Information Extensive-Form Games (IIEFGs) is a prevalent model for real-world games involving imperfect information and sequential plays. The Extensive-Form Correlated Equilibrium (EFCE) has been proposed as a natural solution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Ziang Song , Song Mei , Yu Bai

One of the primary challenges in large-scale distributed learning stems from stringent communication constraints. While several recent works address this challenge for static optimization problems, sequential decision-making under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Aritra Mitra , Hamed Hassani , George J. Pappas

Partial monitoring is a general model for sequential learning with limited feedback formalized as a game between two players. In this game, the learner chooses an action and at the same time the opponent chooses an outcome, then the learner…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-01 Junpei Komiyama , Junya Honda , Hiroshi Nakagawa

Algorithms for hyperparameter optimization abound, all of which work well under different and often unverifiable assumptions. Motivated by the general challenge of sequentially choosing which algorithm to use, we study the more specific…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-12 Robert Nishihara , David Lopez-Paz , Léon Bottou

Influence Blocking Maximization (IBM) aims to select a positive seed set to suppress the spread of negative influence. However, existing IBM methods focus solely on maximizing blocking effectiveness, overlooking fairness across communities.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Qiangpeng Fang , Jilong Shi , Xiaobin Rui , Jian Zhang , Zhixiao Wang

Imitation is widely observed in populations of decision-making agents. Using our recent convergence results for asynchronous imitation dynamics on networks, we consider how such networks can be efficiently driven to a desired equilibrium…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-17 James Riehl , Pouria Ramazi , Ming Cao