Deligkas, Argyrios, Fearnley, JS and Savani, Rahul ORCID: 0000-0003-1262-7831
(2018)
Inapproximability results for constrained approximate Nash equilibria.
Information and Computation, 262 (1).
pp. 40-56.
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Abstract
We study the problem of finding approximate Nash equilibria that satisfy certain conditions, such as providing good social welfare. In particular, we study the problem ϵ-NE δ-SW: find an ϵ-approximate Nash equilibrium (ϵ-NE) that is within δ of the best social welfare achievable by an ϵ-NE. Our main result is that, if the exponential-time hypothesis (ETH) is true, then solving -NE -SW for an bimatrix game requires time. Building on this result, we show similar conditional running time lower bounds for a number of other decision problems for ϵ-NE, where, for example, the payoffs or supports of players are constrained. We show quasi-polynomial lower bounds for these problems assuming ETH, where these lower bounds apply to ϵ-Nash equilibria for all . The hardness of these other decision problems has so far only been studied in the context of exact equilibria.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Approximate Nash equilibrium, Constrained equilibrium, Quasi-polynomial time, Lower bound, Exponential time hypothesis |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
Date Deposited: | 30 May 2018 08:53 |
Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 01:33 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ic.2018.06.001 |
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URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3021907 |