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Fully cooperative multiagent systems - those in which agents share a joint utility model- is of special interest in AI. A key problem is that of ensuring that the actions of individual agents are coordinated, especially in settings where…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Craig Boutilier

Many large-scale platforms and networked control systems have a centralized decision maker interacting with a massive population of agents under strict observability constraints. Motivated by such applications, we study a cooperative Markov…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Emile Anand , Ishani Karmarkar

We present a new approach to solving games with a countably or uncountably infinite number of players. Such games are often used to model multiagent systems with a large number of agents. The latter are frequently encountered in economics,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Carlos Martin , Tuomas Sandholm

This paper studies mean field games for multi-agent systems with control-dependent multiplicative noises. For the general systems with nonuniform agents, we obtain a set of decentralized strategies by solving an auxiliary limiting optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-10 Bing-Chang Wang , Yuan-Hua Ni , Huanshui Zhang

Many real-world multi-agent interactions consider multiple distinct criteria, i.e. the payoffs are multi-objective in nature. However, the same multi-objective payoff vector may lead to different utilities for each participant. Therefore,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Roxana Rădulescu , Timothy Verstraeten , Yijie Zhang , Patrick Mannion , Diederik M. Roijers , Ann Nowé

In order for agents in multi-agent systems (MAS) to be safe, they need to take into account the risks posed by the actions of other agents. However, the dominant paradigm in game theory (GT) assumes that agents are not affected by risk from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Oliver Slumbers , David Henry Mguni , Stephen Marcus McAleer , Stefano B. Blumberg , Jun Wang , Yaodong Yang

A classic model to study strategic decision making in multi-agent systems is the normal-form game. This model can be generalised to allow for an infinite number of pure strategies leading to continuous games. Multi-objective normal-form…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Willem Röpke , Carla Groenland , Roxana Rădulescu , Ann Nowé , Diederik M. Roijers

Generative artificial intelligence (Generative AI), and in particular Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained significant popularity among researchers and industrial communities, paving the way for integrating LLMs in different domains,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Alonso Silva

Creating strong agents for games with more than two players is a major open problem in AI. Common approaches are based on approximating game-theoretic solution concepts such as Nash equilibrium, which have strong theoretical guarantees in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Sam Ganzfried , Austin Nowak , Joannier Pinales

Large scale systems are forecasted to greatly impact our future lives thanks to their wide ranging applications including cooperative robotics, mobility on demand, resource allocation, supply chain management. While technological…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Dario Paccagnan

Reinforcement learning agents in complex game environments often suffer from sparse rewards, training instability, and poor sample efficiency. This paper presents a hybrid training approach that combines offline imitation learning with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Thomas Ackermann , Moritz Spang , Hamza A. A. Gardi

Many multiagent systems in the real world include multiple types of agents with different abilities and functionality. Such heterogeneous multiagent systems have significant practical advantages. However, they also come with challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Qingxu Fu , Xiaolin Ai , Jianqiang Yi , Tenghai Qiu , Wanmai Yuan , Zhiqiang Pu

We review and develop a selection of models of systems with competition and cooperation, with origins in economics, where deep insights can be obtained by the mathematical methods of game theory. Some of these models were touched upon in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-01-10 Vassili N. Kolokoltsov , Oleg A. Malafeyev

Games are natural models for multi-agent machine learning settings, such as generative adversarial networks (GANs). The desirable outcomes from algorithmic interactions in these games are encoded as game theoretic equilibrium concepts, e.g.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Gabriel P. Andrade , Rafael Frongillo , Georgios Piliouras

In the study of reactive systems, qualitative properties are usually easier to model and analyze than quantitative properties. This is especially true in systems where mutually beneficial cooperation between agents is possible, such as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Senthil Rajasekaran , Suguman Bansal , Moshe Y. Vardi

As AI technology advances, research in playing text-based games with agents has becomeprogressively popular. In this paper, a novel approach to agent design and agent learning ispresented with the context of reinforcement learning. A model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Haonan Wang , Mingjia Zhao , Junfeng Sun , Wei Liu

We study risk-sensitive multi-agent reinforcement learning under general-sum Markov games, where agents optimize the entropic risk measure of rewards with possibly diverse risk preferences. We show that using the regret naively adapted from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yingjie Fei , Ruitu Xu

We present an agent-based simulator for economic systems with heterogeneous households, firms, central bank, and government agents. These agents interact to define production, consumption, and monetary flow. Each agent type has distinct…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Kshama Dwarakanath , Svitlana Vyetrenko , Tucker Balch

This work focuses on adversarial learning over graphs. We propose a general adversarial training framework for multi-agent systems using diffusion learning. We analyze the convergence properties of the proposed scheme for convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Ying Cao , Elsa Rizk , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

Network games provide a framework to study strategic decision making processes that are governed by structured interdependencies among agents. However, existing models do not account for environments in which agents simultaneously interact…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Raman Ebrahimi , Parinaz Naghizadeh