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We consider the classical secret sharing problem in the case where all agents are selfish but rational. In recent work, Kol and Naor show that, when there are two players, in the non-simultaneous communication model, i.e. when rushing is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-04 Varsha Dani , Mahnush Movahedi , Jared Saia

In some applications of reinforcement learning, a dataset of pre-collected experience is already available but it is also possible to acquire some additional online data to help improve the quality of the policy. However, it may be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Ruiqi Zhang , Andrea Zanette

In this tutorial, we provide an introduction to machine learning methods for finding Nash equilibria in games with large number of agents. These types of problems are important for the operations research community because of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Gokce Dayanikli , Mathieu Lauriere

We examine the long-run behavior of multi-agent online learning in games that evolve over time. Specifically, we focus on a wide class of policies based on mirror descent, and we show that the induced sequence of play (a) converges to Nash…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Benoit Duvocelle , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Mathias Staudigl , Dries Vermeulen

In socio-technical multi-agent systems, deception exploits privileged information to induce false beliefs in "victims," keeping them oblivious and leading to outcomes detrimental to them or advantageous to the deceiver. We consider…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Michael Tang , Umar Javed , Xudong Chen , Miroslav Krstic , Jorge I. Poveda

Motivated by the human-machine interaction such as training chatbots for improving customer satisfaction, we study human-guided human-machine interaction involving private information. We model this interaction as a two-player turn-based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-26 Zuyue Fu , Zhengling Qi , Zhuoran Yang , Zhaoran Wang , Lan Wang

Evidential cooperation in large worlds (ECL) refers to the idea that humans and other agents can benefit by cooperating with similar agents with differing values in causally disconnected parts of a large universe. Cooperating provides…

General Economics · Economics 2023-08-10 Johannes Treutlein

Collections of interacting AI agents can form coalitions, creating emergent group-level organization that is critical for AI safety and alignment. However, observing agent behavior alone is often insufficient to distinguish genuine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Cameron Berg , Susan L. Schneider , Mark M. Bailey

Current research in distributed Nash equilibrium (NE) seeking in the partial information setting assumes that information is exchanged between agents that are "truthful". However, in general noncooperative games agents may consider sending…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Dian Gadjov , Lacra Pavel

Many important real-world settings contain multiple players interacting over an unknown duration with probabilistic state transitions, and are naturally modeled as stochastic games. Prior research on algorithms for stochastic games has…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Sam Ganzfried

We study a class of non-cooperative aggregative games -- denoted as \emph{social purpose games} -- in which the payoffs depend separately on a player's own strategy (individual benefits) and on a function of the strategy profile which is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Robert P. Gilles , Lina Mallozzi , Roberta Messalli

We establish Nash equilibrium learning in large populations of noncooperative, strategic agents. Our analysis considers the broadest class to date of payoff mechanisms with first-order modifications, capable of modeling bounded rationality…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Matthew S. Hankins , Jair Certório , Tzuyu Jeng , Nuno C. Martins

Federated Learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative model training, but its effectiveness is often limited by client data heterogeneity. We introduce a client-selection algorithm that (i) dynamically forms nonoverlapping…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Alessandro Licciardi , Roberta Raineri , Anton Proskurnikov , Lamberto Rondoni , Lorenzo Zino

We develop a flexible stochastic approximation framework for analyzing the long-run behavior of learning in games (both continuous and finite). The proposed analysis template incorporates a wide array of popular learning algorithms,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Volkan Cevher

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms are often categorized as either on-policy or off-policy depending on whether they use data from a target policy of interest or from a different behavior policy. In this paper, we study a subtle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Rujie Zhong , Duohan Zhang , Lukas Schäfer , Stefano V. Albrecht , Josiah P. Hanna

Social media platforms are responsible for collecting and disseminating vast quantities of content. Recently, however, they have also begun enlisting users in helping annotate this content - for example, to provide context or label…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Kate Donahue , Jon Kleinberg

The majority of distributed learning literature focuses on convergence to Nash equilibria. Correlated equilibria, on the other hand, can often characterize more efficient collective behavior than even the best Nash equilibrium. However,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Holly P. Borowski , Jason R. Marden , Jeff S. Shamma

Federated learning (FL) is a communication-efficient collaborative learning framework that enables model training across multiple agents with private local datasets. While the benefits of FL in improving global model performance are well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Fateme Maleki , Krishnan Raghavan , Farzad Yousefian

Although it has been known since the 1970s that a globally optimal strategy profile in a common-payoff game is a Nash equilibrium, global optimality is a strict requirement that limits the result's applicability. In this work, we show that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Scott Emmons , Caspar Oesterheld , Andrew Critch , Vincent Conitzer , Stuart Russell