Learning generalized Nash equilibria from pairwise preferences

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Main Authors: Krupa, Pablo, Bemporad, Alberto
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author Krupa, Pablo
Bemporad, Alberto
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Bemporad, Alberto
contents Generalized Nash Equilibrium Problems (GNEPs) arise in many applications, including non-cooperative multi-agent control problems. Although many methods exist for finding generalized Nash equilibria, most of them rely on assuming knowledge of the objective functions or being able to query the best responses of the agents. We present a method for learning solutions of GNEPs only based on querying agents for their preference between two alternative decisions. We use the collected preference data to learn a GNEP whose equilibrium approximates a GNE of the underlying (unknown) problem. Preference queries are selected using an active-learning strategy that balances exploration of the decision space and exploitation of the learned GNEP. We present numerical results on game-theoretic linear quadratic regulation problems, as well as on other literature GNEP examples, showing the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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spellingShingle Learning generalized Nash equilibria from pairwise preferences
Krupa, Pablo
Bemporad, Alberto
Computer Science and Game Theory
Systems and Control
Generalized Nash Equilibrium Problems (GNEPs) arise in many applications, including non-cooperative multi-agent control problems. Although many methods exist for finding generalized Nash equilibria, most of them rely on assuming knowledge of the objective functions or being able to query the best responses of the agents. We present a method for learning solutions of GNEPs only based on querying agents for their preference between two alternative decisions. We use the collected preference data to learn a GNEP whose equilibrium approximates a GNE of the underlying (unknown) problem. Preference queries are selected using an active-learning strategy that balances exploration of the decision space and exploitation of the learned GNEP. We present numerical results on game-theoretic linear quadratic regulation problems, as well as on other literature GNEP examples, showing the effectiveness of the proposed method.
title Learning generalized Nash equilibria from pairwise preferences
topic Computer Science and Game Theory
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17015