Turbocharging Solution Concepts: Solving NEs, CEs and CCEs with Neural Equilibrium Solvers
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Abstract (arXiv)
Solution concepts such as Nash Equilibria, Correlated Equilibria, and Coarse Correlated Equilibria are useful components for many multiagent machine learning algorithms. Unfortunately, solving a normal-form game could take prohibitive or non-deterministic time to converge, and could fail. We introduce the Neural Equilibrium Solver which utilizes a special equivariant neural network architecture to approximately solve the space of all games of fixed shape, buying speed and determinism. We define a flexible equilibrium selection framework, that is capable of uniquely selecting an equilibrium that minimizes relative entropy, or maximizes welfare. The network is trained without needing to generate any supervised training data. We show remarkable zero-shot generalization to larger games. We argue that such a network is a powerful component for many possible multiagent algorithms.
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- 2026BRAID: Learning Equilibrium Maps in Interdependent Security Games via Weight-Tied Iterative Graph Neural Networkscited by 0
- 2026Fully Distributed GNE Algorithms for Multi-Robot Placement without Consensus on Multipliers29 Aug 2026
- 2026BRAID: Learning Equilibrium Maps in Interdependent Security Games via Weight-Tied Iterative Graph Neural Networks14 Aug 2026
- 2026Deep Incentive Design with Differentiable Equilibrium Blocks8 Mar 2026
- 2025Re-evaluating Open-ended Evaluation of Large Language Models27 Feb 2025
- 2025Computing Game Symmetries and Equilibria That Respect Them15 Jan 2025
- 2024WardropNet: Traffic Flow Predictions via Equilibrium-Augmented Learning9 Oct 2024
- 2024Large-Scale Contextual Market Equilibrium Computation through Deep Learning11 Jun 2024
- 2024Neural Population Learning beyond Symmetric Zero-sum Games10 Jan 2024
- 2023Smooth Nash Equilibria: Algorithms and Complexity21 Sep 2023
- 2023Are Equivariant Equilibrium Approximators Beneficial?27 Jan 2023