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#1 Anytime-Constrained Equilibria in Polynomial Time [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi] [REL]

Author: Jeremy McMahan

We extend anytime constraints to the Markov game setting and the corresponding solution concept of anytime-constrained equilibrium (ACE). Then, we present a comprehensive theory of anytime-constrained equilibria that includes (1) a computational characterization of feasible policies, (2) a fixed-parameter tractable algorithm for computing ACE, and (3) a polynomial-time algorithm for approximately computing ACE. Since computing a feasible policy is NP-hard even for two-player zero-sum games, our approximation guarantees are the best possible so long as $P \neq NP$. We also develop the first theory of efficient computation for action-constrained Markov games, which may be of independent interest.

Subject: ICML.2025 - Poster