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We analyse the computational complexity of finding Nash equilibria in simple stochastic multiplayer games. We show that restricting the search space to equilibria whose payoffs fall into a certain interval may lead to undecidability. In…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-24 Michael Ummels , Dominik Wojtczak

Games with incomplete preferences are an important model for studying rational decision-making in scenarios where players face incomplete information about their preferences and must contend with incomparable outcomes. We study the problem…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Abhishek N. Kulkarni , Jie Fu , Ufuk Topcu

We investigate a model for representing large multiplayer games, which satisfy strong symmetry properties. This model is made of multiple copies of an arena; each player plays in his own arena, and can partially observe what the other…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Patricia Bouyer , Nicolas Markey , Steen Vester

To verify the robustness of a program or protocol, it is common in the computer science community to rely on the theoretical framework of game theory. In particular, if one seeks to enforce a desired property, or specification, despite an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Léonard Brice

Stochastic differential games have been used extensively to model agents' competitions in Finance, for instance, in P2P lending platforms from the Fintech industry, the banking system for systemic risk, and insurance markets. The recently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Jiequn Han , Ruimeng Hu , Jihao Long

In stochastic Nash equilibrium problems (SNEPs), it is natural for players to be uncertain about their complex environments and have multi-dimensional unknown parameters in their models. Among various SNEPs, this paper focuses on locally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Yuanhanqing Huang , Jianghai Hu

Drawing intuition from a (physical) hydraulic system, we present a novel framework, constructively showing the existence of a strong Nash equilibrium in resource selection games (i.e., asymmetric singleton congestion games) with nonatomic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Yannai A. Gonczarowski , Moshe Tennenholtz

We introduce and study a class of infinite-horizon non-zero-sum non-cooperative stochastic games with infinitely many interacting agents using ideas of statistical mechanics. First we show, in the general case of asymmetric interactions,…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-08-16 Emilio De Santis , Carlo Marinelli

We consider an algorithmic framework for two-player non-zero-sum semidefinite games, where each player's strategy is a positive semidefinite matrix with trace one. We formulate the computation of Nash equilibria in such games as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Constantin Ickstadt , Thorsten Theobald , Elias Tsigaridas , Antonios Varvitsiotis

We propose the first loss function for approximate Nash equilibria of normal-form games that is amenable to unbiased Monte Carlo estimation. This construction allows us to deploy standard non-convex stochastic optimization techniques for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ian Gemp , Luke Marris , Georgios Piliouras

We present a polynomial-time algorithm that always finds an (approximate) Nash equilibrium for repeated two-player stochastic games. The algorithm exploits the folk theorem to derive a strategy profile that forms an equilibrium by…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Enrique Munoz de Cote , Michael L. Littman

With increasing game size, a problem of computational complexity arises. This is especially true in real world problems such as in social systems, where there is a significant population of players involved in the game, and the complexity…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Tatsuya Iwase , Takahiro Shiga

We introduce and investigate certain $N$ player dynamic games on the line and in the plane that admit Coulomb gas dynamics as a Nash equilibrium. Most significantly, we find that the universal local limit of the equilibrium is sensitive to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-29 René Carmona , Mark Cerenzia , Aaron Zeff Palmer

Many models from a variety of areas involve the computation of an equilibrium or fixed point of some kind. Examples include Nash equilibria in games; market equilibria; computing optimal strategies and the values of competitive games…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-02-21 Mihalis Yannakakis

A key feature of wireless communications is the spatial reuse. However, the spatial aspect is not yet well understood for the purpose of designing efficient spectrum sharing mechanisms. In this paper, we propose a framework of spatial…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-19 Xu Chen , Jianwei Huang

Under what conditions do the behaviors of players, who play a game repeatedly, converge to a Nash equilibrium? If one assumes that the players' behavior is a discrete-time or continuous-time rule whereby the current mixed strategy profile…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Jason Milionis , Christos Papadimitriou , Georgios Piliouras , Kelly Spendlove

This paper investigates mean field games and control on sparse networks. In the case of large expander graphs, the limit topologies are analyzed using the graphexon framework, which characterizes both dense network limits and sparse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Tao Zhang , Peter E. Caines

We study turn-based quantitative multiplayer non zero-sum games played on finite graphs with reachability objectives. In such games, each player aims at reaching his own goal set of states as soon as possible. A previous work on this model…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Thomas Brihaye , Véronique Bruyère , Julie De Pril , Hugo Gimbert

A model of stochastic games where multiple controllers jointly control the evolution of the state of a dynamic system but have access to different information about the state and action processes is considered. The asymmetry of information…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-18 Ashutosh Nayyar , Abhishek Gupta , Cédric Langbort , Tamer Başar

Motivated by game-theoretic models of crowd motion dynamics, this paper analyzes a broad class of distributed games with jump diffusions within the recently developed $\alpha$-potential game framework. We demonstrate that analyzing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Xin Guo , Xinyu Li , Yufei Zhang