Title
Approximating Nash Equilibria in Tree Polymatrix Games
Abstract
We develop a quasi-polynomial time Las Vegas algorithm for approximating Nash equilibria in polymatrix games over trees, under a mild renormalizing assumption. Our result, in particular, leads to an expected polynomial-time algorithm for computing approximate Nash equilibria of tree polymatrix games in which the number of actions per player is a fixed constant. Further, for trees with constant degree, the running time of the algorithm matches the best known upper bound for approximating Nash equilibria in bimatrix games (Lipton, Markakis, and Mehta 2003). Notably, this work closely complements the hardness result of Rubinstein (2015), which establishes the inapproximability of Nash equilibria in polymatrix games over constant-degree bipartite graphs with two actions per player.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-662-48433-3_22
ALGORITHMIC GAME THEORY, SAGT 2015
Field
DocType
Volume
Mathematical economics,Mathematical optimization,Combinatorics,Epsilon-equilibrium,Strategy,Upper and lower bounds,Best response,Uniform distribution (continuous),Nash equilibrium,Las Vegas algorithm,Mathematics
Conference
9347
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
7
0.48
References 
Authors
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Siddharth Barman119926.26
Katrina Ligett292366.19
Georgios Piliouras325042.77