Computing Approximate Equilibria in Graphical Games on Arbitrary Graphs

نویسندگان

  • Vishal Soni
  • Satinder Singh
  • Michael P. Wellman
چکیده

We present PureProp: a new constraint satisfaction algorithm for computing pure-strategy approximate Nash equilibria in complete information games. While this seems quite limited in applicability, we show how PureProp unifies existing algorithms for 1) solving a class of complete information graphical games with arbitrary graph structure for approximate Nash equilibria (Kearns et al., 2001; Ortiz & Kearns, 2003), and 2) solving some classes of incomplete information games with tree-graph structure for approximate Bayes-Nash equilibria (Singh et al., 2004). We also show how PureProp provides a hitherto unavailable algorithm for solving classes of incomplete information graphical games with arbitrary graph structure for approximate Bayes-Nash equilibria, and conclude with some empirical analysis of the new algorithm.

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تاریخ انتشار 2004