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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-19 Manu K. Gupta , N. Hemachandra

Nash equilibria are crucial for understanding game behavior and systems in economics, physics, biology, and computer science. A significant application arises from the connection between Nash equilibria and optimization problems . However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Giovanni Ferrannini , Dario di Gregorio , Federico Fissore

This paper considers the problem of Nash equilibrium (NE) seeking in aggregative games, where the payoff function of each player depends on an aggregate of all players' actions. We present a distributed continuous time algorithm such that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-04 Mehran Shakarami , Claudio De Persis , Nima Monshizadeh

Our recently developed "unbiased" extremum seeking (uES) algorithms ensure perfect convergence to the optimum at a user-assigned exponential rate or, more powerfully, within a user-prescribed time. Unlike classical approach, these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Cemal Tugrul Yilmaz , Mamadou Diagne , Miroslav Krstic

A Nash Equilibrium (NE) is a strategy profile resilient to unilateral deviations, and is predominantly used in the analysis of multiagent systems. A downside of NE is that it is not necessarily stable against deviations by coalitions. Yet,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Michal Feldman , Tami Tamir

In this paper we present an averaging technique applicable to the design of zeroth-order Nash equilibrium seeking algorithms. First, we propose a multi-timescale discrete-time averaging theorem that requires only that the equilibrium is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Suad Krilašević , Sergio Grammatico

Algorithms for computing game-theoretic solutions have recently been applied to a number of security domains. However, many of the techniques developed for compact representations of security games do not extend to {\em Bayesian} security…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Yuqian Li , Vincent Conitzer , Dmytro Korzhyk

We introduce a new algorithm for the numerical computation of Nash equilibria of competitive two-player games. Our method is a natural generalization of gradient descent to the two-player setting where the update is given by the Nash…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Florian Schäfer , Anima Anandkumar

The demand for low-power inference and training of deep neural networks (DNNs) on edge devices has intensified the need for algorithms that are both scalable and energy-efficient. While spiking neural networks (SNNs) allow for efficient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Marco Paul E. Apolinario , Kaushik Roy , Charlotte Frenkel

In this paper, an energy efficiency (EE) game in a MIMO multiple access channel (MAC) communication system is considered. The existence and the uniqueness of the Nash Equilibrium (NE) is affirmed. A bisection search algorithm is designed to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-19 Hang Zou , Chao Zhang , Samson Lasaulce , Lucas Saludjian , Patrick Panciatici

This paper presents and analyzes two robust, efficient, and optimally accurate fully discrete finite element algorithms for computing the parameterized Navier-Stokes Equations (NSEs) flow ensemble. The timestepping algorithms are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Neethu Suma Raveendran , Md Abdul Aziz , Muhammad Mohebujjaman

This paper aims to accommodate games in which the players' dynamics are subject to un-modeled and disturbance terms. The un-modeled and disturbance terms are regarded as extended states for which observers are designed to estimate them.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Maojiao Ye

Nash equilibria provide a principled framework for modeling interactions in multi-agent decision-making and control. However, many equilibrium-seeking methods implicitly assume that each agent has access to the other agents' objectives and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Mahdis Rabbani , Navid Mojahed , Shima Nazari

In this paper, we study an exponentiated multiplicative weights dynamic based on Hedge, a well-known algorithm in theoretical machine learning and algorithmic game theory. The empirical average (arithmetic mean) of the iterates Hedge…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Ioannis Avramopoulos

We analyze Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent (NAGD) for Nash equilibrium seeking in $N$-player quadratic games. While the continuous-time NAGD dynamics -- the Su--Boyd--Cand\`{e}s ODE -- are well understood for convex optimization,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Jay Paek

In this work, we investigate the distributed generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) seeking problems for $N$-coalition games with inequality constraints. First, we study the scenario where each agent in a coalition has full information of all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Chao Sun , Guoqiang Hu

We propose a more realistic version of the recently introduced split-step model (SSM), which consists of periodically alternating dispersive and nonlinear segments, by adding uniformly distributed loss and lumped gain to it. In the case…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 Rodislav Driben , Boris Malomed

We study strategic interaction in linear-quadratic network games where agents act on subjective, misspecified models of their environment. Agents observe noisy aggregate signals generated by local network externalities and interpret them…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Quanyan Zhu , Zhengye Han

The theoretical analysis of many problems in physics, astronomy and applied mathematics requires an efficient numerical exploration of multimodal parameter spaces that exhibit broken ergodicity. Monte Carlo methods are widely used to deal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-02 Stefano Martiniani , Jacob D. Stevenson , David J. Wales , Daan Frenkel

While Nash equilibrium in extensive-form games is well understood, very little is known about the properties of extensive-form correlated equilibrium (EFCE), both from a behavioral and from a computational point of view. In this setting,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Gabriele Farina , Chun Kai Ling , Fei Fang , Tuomas Sandholm