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Poster

Fast Convergence of Regularized Learning in Games

Vasilis Syrgkanis · Alekh Agarwal · Haipeng Luo · Robert Schapire

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2015 Poster

Abstract: We show that natural classes of regularized learning algorithms with a form of recency bias achieve faster convergence rates to approximate efficiency and to coarse correlated equilibria in multiplayer normal form games. When each player in a game uses an algorithm from our class, their individual regret decays at O(T3/4), while the sum of utilities converges to an approximate optimum at O(T1)--an improvement upon the worst case O(T1/2) rates. We show a black-box reduction for any algorithm in the class to achieve O~(T1/2) rates against an adversary, while maintaining the faster rates against algorithms in the class. Our results extend those of Rakhlin and Shridharan~\cite{Rakhlin2013} and Daskalakis et al.~\cite{Daskalakis2014}, who only analyzed two-player zero-sum games for specific algorithms.

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