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This paper investigates a two-person non-homogeneous linear-quadratic stochastic differential game (LQ-SDG, for short) in an infinite horizon for a system regulated by a time-invariant Markov chain. Both non-zero-sum and zero-sum LQ-SDG…

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We analyze best response dynamics for finding a Nash equilibrium of an infinite horizon zero-sum stochastic linear quadratic dynamic game (LQDG) with partial and asymmetric information. We derive explicit expressions for each player's best…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Yuxiang Guan , Iman Shames , Tyler H. Summers

We design the first fully-distributed algorithm for generalized Nash equilibrium seeking in aggregative games on a time-varying communication network, under partial-decision information, i.e., the agents have no direct access to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Giuseppe Belgioioso , Angelia Nedić , Sergio Grammatico

This paper proposes a payoff perturbation technique for the Mirror Descent (MD) algorithm in games where the gradient of the payoff functions is monotone in the strategy profile space, potentially containing additive noise. The optimistic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Kenshi Abe , Kaito Ariu , Mitsuki Sakamoto , Atsushi Iwasaki

We consider multi-agent decision making, where each agent optimizes its cost function subject to constraints. Agents' actions belong to a compact convex Euclidean space and the agents' cost functions are coupled. We propose a distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Tatiana Tatarenko , Maryam Kamgarpour

For a class of finite horizon first order mean field games and associated N-player games, we give a simple proof of convergence of symmetric N-player Nash equilibria in distributed open-loop strategies to solutions of the mean field game in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-11 Markus Fischer , Francisco J. Silva

We develop a variational approach to address risk-sensitive optimal control problems with an exponential-of-integral cost functional in a general linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) single-agent setup, offering new insights into such problems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Hanchao Liu , Dena Firoozi , Michèle Breton

We consider stochastic differential games with $N$ players, linear-Gaussian dynamics in arbitrary state-space dimension, and long-time-average cost with quadratic running cost. Admissible controls are feedbacks for which the system is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-10 Martino Bardi , Fabio S. Priuli

We initiate the study of how to perturb the reward in a zero-sum Markov game with two players to induce a desirable Nash equilibrium, namely arbitrating. Such a problem admits a bi-level optimization formulation. The lower level requires…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Jing Wang , Meichen Song , Feng Gao , Boyi Liu , Zhaoran Wang , Yi Wu

In this paper, we study the distributed generalized Nash equilibrium seeking problem of non-cooperative games in dynamic environments. Each player in the game aims to minimize its own time-varying cost function subject to a local action…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Kaihong Lu , Guangqi Li , Long Wang

Considering linear-quadratic discrete-time games with unknown input/output/state (i/o/s) dynamics and state, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of feedback Nash equilibria (FNE) in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Shengyuan Huang , Xiaoguang Yang , Zhigang Cao , Wenjun Mei

We present a fully-distributed algorithm for Nash equilibrium seeking in aggregative games over networks. The proposed scheme endows each agent with a gradient-based scheme equipped with a tracking mechanism to locally reconstruct the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Guido Carnevale , Filippo Fabiani , Filiberto Fele , Kostas Margellos , Giuseppe Notarstefano

This paper proposes a distributed algorithm to find the Nash equilibrium in a class of non-cooperative convex games with partial-decision information. Our method employs a distributed projected gradient play approach alongside consensus…

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We investigate mean field games for players, who are weakly coupled via their empirical measure. To this end we investigate time-dependent pure jump type propagators over a finite space in the framework of non-linear Markov processes. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-25 Rani Basna , Astrid Hilbert , Vassili N. Kolokoltsov

We propose the concept of a Lagrangian game to solve constrained Markov games. Such games model scenarios where agents face cost constraints in addition to their individual rewards, that depend on both agent joint actions and the evolving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Soham Das , Santiago Paternain , Luiz F. O. Chamon , Ceyhun Eksin

We introduce a novel class of Nash equilibrium seeking dynamics for non-cooperative games with a finite number of players, where the convergence to the Nash equilibrium is bounded by a KL function with a settling time that can be upper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-25 Jorge I. Poveda , Miroslav Krstic , Tamer Basar

A Linear Quadratic Deterministic Continuous Time Game with many symmetric players is considered and the Linear Feedback Nash strategies are studied as the number of players goes to infinity. We show that under some conditions the limit of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-14 G. P. Papavassilopoulos

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

This paper studies approximate solutions to large-scale linear quadratic stochastic games with homogeneous nodal dynamics parameters and heterogeneous network couplings within the graphon mean field game framework in [2]-[4]. A graphon…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Shuang Gao , Peter E. Caines , Minyi Huang

This paper investigates online stochastic aggregative games subject to local set constraints and time-varying coupled inequality constraints, where each player possesses a time-varying expectation-valued cost function relying on not only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Kaixin Du , Min Meng