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Turbocharging Solution Concepts: Solving NEs, CEs and CCEs with Neural Equilibrium Solvers

arXiv 2210.09257 ↗First posted 17 Oct 2022cs.LG cs.AI cs.GTcited by 10

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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.

Key facts. Cited by 10 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 19 of its 63 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 17 Oct 2022.

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