Gradient-Based Algorithms With Intermediate Observations in Static and Differential Games

In two-player static and differential games, strategic players often use available or delayed information about the other player’s decisions and solve an optimization or optimal control problem to determine their strategic choices. Without this information, the player’s ability...

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Main Authors: Mohammad Safayet Hossain, Marwan A. Simaan, Zhihua Qu
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Published: IEEE 2025-01-01
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description In two-player static and differential games, strategic players often use available or delayed information about the other player’s decisions and solve an optimization or optimal control problem to determine their strategic choices. Without this information, the player’s ability to determine its optimal decisions becomes problematic. In this paper, we propose an approach in which each player implements an iterative discrete-time gradient-based algorithm that relies only on intermediate either current or prior observations about the other player’s actions. We explore the implementation of such gradient play algorithms in the case of non-zero-sum static games and in the more complex case of differential games. We discuss the properties of these algorithms with heterogeneous stepsizes and derive explicit necessary and sufficient conditions on the game parameters in the objective functions and stepsizes that guarantee convergence to the Nash equilibrium in static games with quadratic objective functions. Examples in both static and differential games are presented to illustrate the results.
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spelling doaj-art-6c8cde1c1b7a436391b411375848ab502025-01-07T00:02:14ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-01132694270410.1109/ACCESS.2024.352325810816421Gradient-Based Algorithms With Intermediate Observations in Static and Differential GamesMohammad Safayet Hossain0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6745-4168Marwan A. Simaan1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5393-2018Zhihua Qu2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6710-7134Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USADepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USADepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USAIn two-player static and differential games, strategic players often use available or delayed information about the other player’s decisions and solve an optimization or optimal control problem to determine their strategic choices. Without this information, the player’s ability to determine its optimal decisions becomes problematic. In this paper, we propose an approach in which each player implements an iterative discrete-time gradient-based algorithm that relies only on intermediate either current or prior observations about the other player’s actions. We explore the implementation of such gradient play algorithms in the case of non-zero-sum static games and in the more complex case of differential games. We discuss the properties of these algorithms with heterogeneous stepsizes and derive explicit necessary and sufficient conditions on the game parameters in the objective functions and stepsizes that guarantee convergence to the Nash equilibrium in static games with quadratic objective functions. Examples in both static and differential games are presented to illustrate the results.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10816421/Static gamesdifferential gamesNash equilibriumgradient-based minimization algorithms
spellingShingle Mohammad Safayet Hossain
Marwan A. Simaan
Zhihua Qu
Gradient-Based Algorithms With Intermediate Observations in Static and Differential Games
IEEE Access
Static games
differential games
Nash equilibrium
gradient-based minimization algorithms
title Gradient-Based Algorithms With Intermediate Observations in Static and Differential Games
title_full Gradient-Based Algorithms With Intermediate Observations in Static and Differential Games
title_fullStr Gradient-Based Algorithms With Intermediate Observations in Static and Differential Games
title_full_unstemmed Gradient-Based Algorithms With Intermediate Observations in Static and Differential Games
title_short Gradient-Based Algorithms With Intermediate Observations in Static and Differential Games
title_sort gradient based algorithms with intermediate observations in static and differential games
topic Static games
differential games
Nash equilibrium
gradient-based minimization algorithms
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10816421/
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