Observed opponent actions enable optimal current-strategy convergence in matrix games

Zhang derives an efficient algorithm whose played strategies approach equilibrium at the minimax-optimal rate, up to logarithmic factors.

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Yuheng Zhang

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Yuheng Zhang studies unknown two-player zero-sum games where each round reveals the sampled actions and one noisy payoff.

The paper considers matrix games with d actions per player.

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From University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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An algorithm achieves minimax optimal last-iterate duality gap O~(√(d/t)) for zero-sum matrix games with observed opponent actions.

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