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Opponent Modeling in Multiplayer Imperfect-Information Games

Computer Science and Game Theory 2024-07-30 v4 Artificial Intelligence Multiagent Systems Theoretical Economics

Abstract

In many real-world settings agents engage in strategic interactions with multiple opposing agents who can employ a wide variety of strategies. The standard approach for designing agents for such settings is to compute or approximate a relevant game-theoretic solution concept such as Nash equilibrium and then follow the prescribed strategy. However, such a strategy ignores any observations of opponents' play, which may indicate shortcomings that can be exploited. We present an approach for opponent modeling in multiplayer imperfect-information games where we collect observations of opponents' play through repeated interactions. We run experiments against a wide variety of real opponents and exact Nash equilibrium strategies in three-player Kuhn poker and show that our algorithm significantly outperforms all of the agents, including the exact Nash equilibrium strategies.

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@article{arxiv.2212.06027,
  title  = {Opponent Modeling in Multiplayer Imperfect-Information Games},
  author = {Sam Ganzfried and Kevin A. Wang and Max Chiswick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.06027},
  year   = {2024}
}
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