Efficient Nash Computation in Large Population Games with Bounded Influence

Michael J. Kearns, Yishay Mansour

Abstract: We introduce a general representation of large-population games in which each player s influence ON the others IS centralized AND limited, but may otherwise be arbitrary.This representation significantly generalizes the class known AS congestion games IN a natural way.Our main results are provably correct AND efficient algorithms FOR computing AND learning approximate Nash equilibria IN this general framework.