Using Correlated Strategies for Computing Stackelberg Equilibria in Extensive-Form Games

Autor: Jiri Cermak, Branislav Bosansky, Karel Durkota, Viliam Lisy, Christopher Kiekintveld
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 30
ISSN: 2374-3468
2159-5399
Popis: Strong Stackelberg Equilibrium (SSE) is a fundamental solution concept in game theory in which one player commits to a strategy, while the other player observes this commitment and plays a best response. We present a new algorithm for computing SSE for two-player extensive-form general-sum games with imperfect information (EFGs) where computing SSE is an NP-hard problem. Our algorithm is based on a correlated version of SSE, known as Stackelberg Extensive-Form Correlated Equilibrium (SEFCE). Our contribution is therefore twofold: (1) we give the first linear program for computing SEFCE in EFGs without chance, (2) we repeatedly solve and modify this linear program in a systematic search until we arrive to SSE. Our new algorithm outperforms the best previous algorithms by several orders of magnitude.
Databáze: OpenAIRE