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Max-Average Games with Random Payoffs
Consider the following simple 2-person sequential game with i.i.d. payoffs. The 2 players, Max and Average, each have exactly 2 options for each
move. Max plays optimally, i.e., to maximize her payoff, and Average plays randomly. How does the expected payoff for Max depend on the distribution on payoffs?
I will describe the complexity-theoretic motivation for this question, and describe some preliminary results when the distribution on payoffs is Bernoulli.
Joint work with Andy Drucker.
Date:
30 April 2018, 12:00
Venue:
Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details:
L4
Speaker:
Rahul Santhanam (Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Department of Statistics
Organisers:
Christina Goldschmidt (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford),
James Martin (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Part of:
Probability seminar
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Christina Goldschmidt
