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In multi-agent problems requiring a high degree of cooperation, success often depends on the ability of the agents to adapt to each other's behavior. A natural solution concept in such settings is the Stackelberg equilibrium, in which the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Robert Loftin , Mustafa Mert Çelikok , Herke van Hoof , Samuel Kaski , Frans A. Oliehoek

Data-driven machine learning (ML) has witnessed great successes across a variety of application domains. Since ML model training are crucially relied on a large amount of data, there is a growing demand for high quality data to be collected…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jinfei Liu

Recently, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a novel framework for distributed model training. In FL, the task publisher (TP) releases tasks, and local model owners (LMOs) use their local data to train models. Sometimes, FL suffers from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jiaxing Cao , Yuzhou Gao , Jiwei Huang

Stackelberg Pricing Games is a two-level combinatorial pricing problem studied in the Economics, Operation Research, and Computer Science communities. In this paper, we consider the decade-old shortest path version of this problem which is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-05 Parinya Chalermsook , Bundit Laekhanukit , Danupon Nanongkai

This paper studies the mean field game (MFG) problem arising from a large population competition in fund management, featuring a new type of relative performance via the benchmark tracking. In the $n$-player model, each agent aims to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Lijun Bo , Yijie Huang , Xiang Yu

This paper presents an asset pricing model in an incomplete market involving a large number of heterogeneous agents based on the mean field game theory. In the model, we incorporate habit formation in consumption preferences, which has been…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-11-13 Masaaki Fujii , Masashi Sekine

Having fixed capacities, homogeneous products and price sensitive customer purchase decision are primary distinguishing characteristics of numerous revenue management systems. Even with two or three rivals, competition is still highly…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-08-08 Niloofar Fadavi

Due to the ever-increasing popularity of ride-hailing services and the indisputable shift towards alternative fuel vehicles, the intersection of the ride-hailing market and smart electric mobility provides an opportunity to trade different…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-26 Marko Maljkovic , Gustav Nilsson , Nikolas Geroliminis

We consider the problem of supply and demand balancing that is stated as a minimization problem for the total expected revenue function describing the behavior of both consumers and suppliers. In the considered market model we assume that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Dmitry Pasechnyuk , Pavel Dvurechensky , Sergey Omelchenko , Alexander Gasnikov

In this paper, we study the transmission strategy adaptation problem in an RF-powered cognitive radio network, in which hybrid secondary users are able to switch between the harvest-then-transmit mode and the ambient backscatter mode for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Wenbo Wang , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang , Dong In Kim

Inspired by successful biological collective decision mechanisms such as honey bees searching for a new colony or the collective navigation of fish schools, we consider a mean field games (MFG)-like scenario where a large number of agents…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Rabih Salhab , Roland P. Malhamé , Jerome Le Ny

Aggregators of distributed energy resources are increasingly encouraged to participate in wholesale market bidding. However, the delivery of the power they are awarded can result in over-voltage or congestion issues within the distribution…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Congcong Liu , Zhengshuo Li

Federated Learning rests on the notion of training a global model distributedly on various devices. Under this setting, users' devices perform computations on their own data and then share the results with the cloud server to update the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Rui Hu , Yanmin Gong

The proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) has established LLM routing as a standard service delivery mechanism, where users select models based on cost, Quality of Service (QoS), among other things. However, optimal pricing in LLM…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Zhendong Guo , Wenchao Bai , Jiahui Jin

Smart metering infrastructure allows for two-way communication and power transfer. Based on this promising technology, we propose a demand-side management (DSM) scheme for a residential neighbourhood of prosumers. Its core is a discrete…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Matthias Pilz , Luluwah Al-Fagih

This paper is concerned with a Stackelberg game of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs), where the coefficients of the backward system and the cost functionals are deterministic, and the control domain is convex. Necessary and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-18 Yueyang Zheng , Jingtao Shi

We study three pricing mechanisms' performance and their effects on the participants in the data industry from the data supply chain perspective. A win-win pricing strategy for the players in the data supply chain is proposed. We obtain…

Econometrics · Economics 2018-03-06 Xinming Li , Huaqing Wang

This article studies linear-quadratic Stackelberg games between two dominating players (or equivalently, leaders) and a large group of followers, each of whom interacts under a mean field game (MFG) framework. Unlike the conventional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Dantong Chu , Kenneth Tsz Hin Ng , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam , Harry Zheng

Owing to the fluctuant renewable generation and power demand, the energy surplus or deficit in each nanogrid is embodied differently across time. To stimulate local renewable energy consumption and minimize the long-term energy cost, some…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Jiaxin Cao , Bo Yang , Shanying Zhu , Kai Ma , Xinping Guan

We consider an energy system with $n$ consumers who are linked by a Demand Side Management (DSM) contract, i.e. they agreed to diminish, at random times, their aggregated power consumption by a predefined volume during a predefined…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Clémence Alasseur , Luciano Campi , Roxana Dumitrescu , Jia Zeng