Poster
Efficient -Regret Minimization with Low-Degree Swap Deviations in Extensive-Form Games
Brian Zhang · Ioannis Anagnostides · Gabriele Farina · Tuomas Sandholm
West Ballroom A-D #6611
Abstract:
Recent breakthrough results by Dagan, Daskalakis, Fishelson and Golowich [2023] and Peng and Rubinstein [2023] established an efficient algorithm attaining at most swap regret over extensive-form strategy spaces of dimension in rounds. On the other extreme, Farina and Pipis [2023] developed an efficient algorithm for minimizing the weaker notion of linear-swap regret in rounds. In this paper, we develop efficient parameterized algorithms for regimes between these two extremes. We introduce the set of -mediator deviations, which generalize the untimed communication deviations recently introduced by Zhang, Farina and Sandholm [2024] to the case of having multiple mediators, and we develop algorithms for minimizing the regret with respect to this set of deviations in rounds. Moreover, by relating -mediator deviations to low-degree polynomials, we show that regret minimization against degree- polynomial swap deviations is achievable in rounds, where is the depth of the game, assuming a constant branching factor. For a fixed degree , this is polynomial for Bayesian games and quasipolynomial more broadly when ---the usual balancedness assumption on the game tree. The first key ingredient in our approach is a relaxation of the usual notion of a fixed point required in the framework of Gordon, Greenwald and Marks [2008]. Namely, for a given deviation , we show that it suffices to compute what we refer to as a fixed point in expectation; that is, a distribution such that . Unlike the problem of computing an actual (approximate) fixed point , which we show is \PPAD-hard, there is a simple and efficient algorithm for finding a solution that satisfies our relaxed notion. As a byproduct, we provide, to our knowledge, the fastest algorithm for computing -correlated equilibria in normal-form games in the medium-precision regime, obviating the need to solve a linear system in every round. Our second main contribution is a characterization of the set of low-degree deviations, made possible through a connection to low-depth decisions trees from Boolean analysis.
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