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20192026
most citedSingle-Leader-Multiple-Followers Stackelberg Security Game with Hypergame Framework

41 citations · 77 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.MA2026

Distributed Team Orchestration via Supervisor Networks: Convergence, Optimality, and Resilience

Juntian Zhu, Guanpu Chen, Tongtian Zhu +3

In this paper, we study zero-sum potential team games with a supervisor network, where agents rely on supervisor-provided belief information rather than accurate common beliefs. Th…

cs.GT2026

Distributed Algorithm for Robust Wardrop Equilibrium in Uncertain Aggregative Congestion Games

Huan Peng, Guanpu Chen, Giuseppe Belgioioso +1

This paper considers a class of aggregative congestion games with uncertain coupling constraints, and devises a distributed algorithm to seek the robust generalized Wardrop equilib…

cs.GT2026

Zero-determinant Strategy for Moving Target Defense: Existence, Performance, and Computation

Zhaoyang Cheng, Guanpu Chen, Yiguang Hong +2

Moving Target Defense (MTD) is commonly formulated as a repeated security game to mitigate persistent threats. Although the strong Stackelberg equilibrium (SSE) characterizes the d…

cs.GT2025

A Scenario Approach to the Robustness of Nonconvex-Nonconcave Minimax Problems

Huan Peng, Guanpu Chen, Karl Henrik Johansson

This paper investigates probabilistic robustness of nonconvex-nonconcave minimax problems via the scenario approach. Specifically, under convex strategy sets for all players, inspi…

cs.GT2025

BG-FlipIn: A Bayesian game framework for FlipIt-insider models in advanced persistent threats

Yang Jiao, Guanpu Chen, Yiguang Hong

In this paper, we study advanced persistent threats (APT) with an insider who has different preferences. To address the uncertainty of the insider's preference, we propose the BG-F…

cs.GT2025

Privacy Guarantee for Nash Equilibrium Computation of Aggregative Games Based on Pointwise Maximal Leakage

Zhaoyang Cheng, Guanpu Chen, Tobias J. Oechtering +1

Privacy preservation has served as a key metric in designing Nash equilibrium (NE) computation algorithms. Although differential privacy (DP) has been widely employed for privacy g…

cs.GT2024★ 2 cited

Bayesian hypergame approach to equilibrium stability and robustness in moving target defense

Hanzheng Zhang, Zhaoyang Cheng, Guanpu Chen +1

We investigate the equilibrium stability and robustness in a class of moving target defense problems, in which players have both incomplete information and asymmetric cognition. We…

math.OC2024

A Multi-Player Potential Game Approach for Sensor Network Localization with Noisy Measurements

Gehui Xu, Guanpu Chen, Baris Fidan +4

Sensor network localization (SNL) is a challenging problem due to its inherent non-convexity and the effects of noise in inter-node ranging measurements and anchor node position. W…

cs.GT2024

Inverse learning of black-box aggregator for robust Nash equilibrium

Guanpu Chen, Gehui Xu, Fengxiang He +3

In this note, we investigate the robustness of Nash equilibria (NE) in multi-player aggregative games with coupling constraints. There are many algorithms for computing an NE of an…

math.OC2024★ 4 cited

Global solution to sensor network localization: A non-convex potential game approach and its distributed implementation

Gehui Xu, Guanpu Chen, Yiguang Hong +3

Consider a sensor network consisting of both anchor and non-anchor nodes. We address the following sensor network localization (SNL) problem: given the physical locations of anchor…

math.OC2023

Non-convex potential games for finding global solutions to sensor network localization

Gehui Xu, Guanpu Chen, Yiguang Hong +3

Sensor network localization (SNL) problems require determining the physical coordinates of all sensors in a network. This process relies on the global coordinates of anchors and th…

cs.GT2023★ 3 cited

Equalizer zero-determinant strategy in discounted repeated Stackelberg asymmetric game

Zhaoyang Cheng, Guanpu Chen, Yiguang Hong

This paper focuses on the performance of equalizer zero-determinant (ZD) strategies in discounted repeated Stackerberg asymmetric games. In the leader-follower adversarial scenario…

cs.GT2023★ 3 cited

Global Nash Equilibrium in Non-convex Multi-player Game: Theory and Algorithms

Guanpu Chen, Gehui Xu, Fengxiang He +3

Wide machine learning tasks can be formulated as non-convex multi-player games, where Nash equilibrium (NE) is an acceptable solution to all players, since no one can benefit from…

math.OC2023★ 1 cited

Bayesian Nash Equilibrium Seeking for Distributed Incomplete-information Aggregative Games

Hanzheng Zhang, Guanpu Chen, Huashu Qin

In this paper, we consider a distributed Bayesian Nash equilibrium (BNE) seeking problem in incomplete-information aggregative games, which is a generalization of Bayesian games an…

cs.GT2023

Zero-Determinant Strategy in Stochastic Stackelberg Asymmetric Security Game

Zhaoyang Cheng, Guanpu Chen, Yiguang Hong

In a stochastic Stackelberg asymmetric security game, the strong Stackelberg equilibrium (SSE) strategy is a popular option for the defender to get the highest utility against an a…

cs.GT2022

Coincidence analysis of Stackelberg and Nash equilibria in three-player leader-follower security games

Gehui Xu, Guanpu Chen, Zhaoyang Cheng +2

There has been significant recent interest in leader-follower security games, where the leader dominates the decision process with the Stackelberg equilibrium (SE) strategy. Howeve…

math.OC2022

Defense for Advanced Persistent Threat with Inadvertent or Malicious Insider Threats

Ziqin Chen, Guanpu Chen, Yiguang Hong

In this paper, we propose a game-theoretical framework to investigate advanced persistent threat problems with two types of insider threats: malicious and inadvertent. Within this…

math.OC2022★ 11 cited

Distributed Algorithm for Continuous-type Bayesian Nash Equilibrium in Subnetwork Zero-sum Games

Hanzheng Zhang, Guanpu Chen, Yiguang Hong

In this paper, we consider a continuous-type Bayesian Nash equilibrium (BNE) seeking problem in subnetwork zero-sum games, which is a generalization of deterministic subnetwork zer…

math.OC2022

Algorithm design and approximation analysis on distributed robust game

Gehui Xu, Guanpu Chen, Hongsheng Qi

We design a distributed algorithm to seek generalized Nash equilibria of a robust game with uncertain coupled constraints. Due to the uncertainty of parameters in set constraints,…

math.OC2022★ 3 cited

Achieving Social Optimum in Non-convex Cooperative Aggregative Games: A Distributed Stochastic Annealing Approach

Yinghui Wang, Xiaoxue Geng, Guanpu Chen +1

This paper designs a distributed stochastic annealing algorithm for non-convex cooperative aggregative games, whose agents' cost functions not only depend on agents' own decision v…

math.OC2021★ 3 cited

Efficient algorithm for approximating Nash equilibrium of distributed aggregative games

Gehui Xu, Guanpu Chen, Hongsheng Qi +1

In this paper, we aim to design a distributed approximate algorithm for seeking Nash equilibria of an aggregative game. Due to the local set constraints of each player, projectionb…

math.OC2021

Distributed Mirror Descent Algorithm with Bregman Damping for Nonsmooth Constrained Optimization

Guanpu Chen, Weijian Li, Gehui Xu +1

To solve distributed optimization efficiently with various constraints and nonsmooth functions, we propose a distributed mirror descent algorithm with embedded Bregman damping, as…

cs.GT2021★ 41 cited

Single-Leader-Multiple-Followers Stackelberg Security Game with Hypergame Framework

Zhaoyang Cheng, Guanpu Chen, Yiguang Hong

In this paper, we employ a hypergame framework to analyze the single-leader-multiple-followers (SLMF) Stackelberg security game with two typical misinformed situations: mispercepti…

math.OC2021★ 5 cited

Distributed Optimization with Projection-free Dynamics

Guanpu Chen, Peng Yi, Yiguang Hong +1

We consider continuous-time dynamics for distributed optimization with set constraints in the paper. To handle the computational complexity of projection-based dynamics due to solv…