Communication complexity of approximate Nash equilibria

Yakov Babichenko; Aviad Rubinstein

doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2020.07.005

Communication complexity of approximate Nash equilibria

Yakov Babichenko, Aviad Rubinstein

Data and Decision Sciences

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

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Abstract

For a constant ϵ, we prove a poly(N) lower bound on the (randomized) communication complexity of ϵ-Nash equilibrium in two-player N×N games. For n-player binary-action games we prove an exp⁡(n) lower bound for the (randomized) communication complexity of (ϵ,ϵ)-weak approximate Nash equilibrium, which is a profile of mixed actions such that at least (1−ϵ)-fraction of the players are ϵ-best replying.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	376-398
Number of pages	23
Journal	Games and Economic Behavior
Volume	134
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2020.07.005
State	Published - Jul 2022

Keywords

Approximate Nash equilibria
Communication complexity
Convergence rate of uncoupled dynamics

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Finance
Economics and Econometrics

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