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Potential game

In game theory, a game is said to be a potential game if the incentive of all players to change their strategy can be expressed using a single global function called the potential function. The concept originated in a 1996 paper by Dov Monderer and Lloyd Shapley.

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ExternalityBattle of the sexesStochastically stable equilibrium
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Potential games and congestion games

Congestion gamePapadimitriouPLS
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Pseudo-potential games

Strategic substitutesStrategic complementsAggregation
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Correlated equilibria

Abraham NeymanConcave functionCorrelated equilibrium
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Potential games and congestion games

Potential games and improvement paths

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Correlated equilibria

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Potential game

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Triples36
Avg. degree1.92
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Potential game

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related to Potential games and improvement paths · 11
Potential game → An, FBRP, FIP, If, It, Moreover, Nash, Phi, The, This, We
related to Potential games and congestion games · 10
Potential game → Exact, Fabrikant, Monderer, Nash, Papadimitriou, PLS, Rosenthal, Shapley, Talwar, The
related to Pseudo-potential games · 5
Potential game → Any, Dubey, Haimanko, Nash, Zapechelnyuk
related to Definition · 4
Potential game → Given, Let, Phi, We
related to Correlated equilibria · 3
Potential game → Abraham Neyman, He, If
see also · 1
Potential game → Congestion

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potential function games game nash equilibrium strategy players player every ordinal improvement also path equilibria finite called since best-response fip

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distributed resource allocationinstance ofThis approach has applications in distributed control0.80text
where players without a central correlation mechanism can cooperate to achieve a globally optimal resource distributioninstance ofThis approach has applications in distributed control0.80text
Potential gamerelated to Correlated equilibriaAbraham Neyman0.60section
Potential gamerelated to Correlated equilibriaHe0.60section
Potential gamerelated to Correlated equilibriaIf0.60section
Potential gamerelated to DefinitionLet0.60section
Potential gamerelated to DefinitionGiven0.60section
Potential gamerelated to DefinitionPhi0.60section
Potential gamerelated to DefinitionWe0.60section
Potential gamerelated to Potential games and congestion gamesExact0.60section
Potential gamerelated to Potential games and congestion gamesRosenthal0.60section
Potential gamerelated to Potential games and congestion gamesMonderer0.60section

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