Approximating Nash Equilibria in Normal-Form Games via Stochastic Optimization
Authors: Ian Gemp,Luke Marris,Georgios Piliouras
Presentation: ICLR 2024,Oral

Abstract: We propose the first loss function for approximate Nash equilibria of normal-form games that is amenable to unbiased Monte Carlo estimation. This construction allows us to deploy standard non-convex stochastic optimization techniques for approximating Nash equilibria, resulting in novel algorithms  with provable guarantees. We complement our theoretical analysis with experiments demonstrating that stochastic gradient descent can outperform previous state-of-the-art approaches.