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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - Equilibrium selection in potential games with noisy rewards
AU - Leslie, David S.
AU - Marden, Jason R.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Game theoretical learning in potential games is a highly active research area stemming from the connection between potential games and distributed optimisation. In many settings an optimisation problem can be represented by a potential game where the optimal solution corresponds to the potential function maximizer. Accordingly, significant research attention has focused on the design of distributed learning algorithms that guarantee convergence to the potential maximizer in potential games. However, there are currently no existing algorithms that provide convergence to the potential function maximiser when utility functions are corrupted by noise. In this paper we rectify this issue by demonstrating that a version of payoff-based loglinear learning guarantees that the only stochastically stable states are potential function maximisers even in noisy settings.
AB - Game theoretical learning in potential games is a highly active research area stemming from the connection between potential games and distributed optimisation. In many settings an optimisation problem can be represented by a potential game where the optimal solution corresponds to the potential function maximizer. Accordingly, significant research attention has focused on the design of distributed learning algorithms that guarantee convergence to the potential maximizer in potential games. However, there are currently no existing algorithms that provide convergence to the potential function maximiser when utility functions are corrupted by noise. In this paper we rectify this issue by demonstrating that a version of payoff-based loglinear learning guarantees that the only stochastically stable states are potential function maximisers even in noisy settings.
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781467303835
SP - 1
EP - 4
BT - Network Games, Control and Optimization (NetGCooP), 2011 5th International Conference on
PB - IEEE
ER -