The price of anarchy of finite congestion games Kapelushnik Lior



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The price of anarchy of finite congestion games

  • Kapelushnik Lior

  • Based on the articles:

  • “The price of anarchy of finite congestion games”

  • by Christodoulou & Koutsoupias

  • “the price of routing unsplittable flow”

  • by Awerbuch, Azar & Epstein


Agenda

  • Congestion games description

  • Price of anarchy definitions

  • Linear latency functions PoA upper and lower bounds

  • Polynomial latency functions PoA upper and lower bounds



Network congestion game

  • A directed graph G=(V,E)

  • For each edge exists a latency function

  • n users, user j have request

  • Request j assigned to path which is the strategy of player j

  • Users are none cooperative



Network game example



Network game example agent paths (strategies)



Network congestion game

  • Consider a strategy profile

  • Denote Ne(A) as the load on e in A

  • Mark as the possible paths for user i

  • Player j cost is the total cost of it’s strategy path

  • Strategy A is a NE if no player has reason to deviate from his strategy



Congestion game

  • More generalized than a network congestion game

  • N players, a set of facilities E

  • Each player i has a strategy chosen from several sets of facilities

  • Facility j have cost (latency) function



Congestion game definitions

  • Symmetric game (single-commodity) – all players choose from the same strategies

  • Asymmetric game (multi-commodity) – different players may have different strategy options

  • Mixed strategy for player i – a probability distribution over



Congestion game example



Congestion game example



Congestion game example



Congestion game example



Congestion games

  • Every network congestion game is a congestion game

  • Each edge will be represented by a facility

  • Each strategy path of a player will be replaced by the set of edges in the path



Network to congestion game



Social cost

  • Two possible definitions

  • Definition 1:

  • Definition 2:

  • or for weighted requests

  • When considering PoA the social cost definition of sum is equivalent to average (just divide by n)



Price of anarchy

  • The worst-case ratio between the social cost of a NE and the optimal social cost

  • Definition 1:

  • Definition 2:



Linear latency function

  • If an equivalent problem can be described with function

  • Duplicate an edge times



Avg. social cost PoA

  • Asymmetric case

    • Unweighted requests
      • pure strategy
      • Mixed strategy
    • Weighted requests
      • Pure + mixed strategies
  • Symmetric case



Upper PoA bounds

  • Sketch of proof

  • Compare agent’s delay to the delay that would be encountered at the optimal path

  • Combine the bounds and transform to a relation between a total NE delay and the total optimal delay



Upper bound unweighted requests, fe(x)=x

  • Lemma:

  • for a pair of nonnegative integers a,b



Upper bound unweighted requests, fe(x)=x

  • In a NE A and an optimal P allocation

  • The inequality holds since moving from a NE does not decrease the cost

  • Summing for all players we get



Upper bound unweighted requests, fe(x)=x cont’

  • Using the lemma we get

  • And thus

  • And the upper bound is proven



Upper bound weighted requests

  • Notations:

    • J(e) – set of agents using e
    • P – NE strategies profile
    • Qj – request j path in P
    • X* - value X in optimal state
    • l – load vector of a system


Upper bound weighted requests

  • Lemma 1: (follows from Cauchy-Schwartz inequality)

  • Lemma 2: for any



Upper bound weighted requests



Upper bound weighted requests



Upper bound weighted requests



Lower bounds, unweighted requests, congestion game

  • Assume N≥3 agents, 2N facilities fe(x)=x

  • Facilities

  • Agent i strategies

  • Optimal allocation: each agent i chooses

  • Worst NE agent i choose

  • The cost for each agent is 2 in the optimal allocation and 5 in the NE, PoA is 5/2



Lower bounds, unweighted requests, network game



Lower bounds, weighted requests, network game



Lower bounds, weighted requests, network game



Lower bounds, weighted requests, network game



Linear congestion symmetric games lower bound of PoA

  • The upper bound for asymmetric games with avg. social cost also holds for symmetric games

  • The lower bound both max and avg. social cost is (5N-2)/(2N+1)

  • Next is a game description which achieves this PoA for N players



Lower bound game construction for symmetric games

  • The facilities will be in N sets of the same size P1,P2,…,Pn

  • Each Pi is a pure strategy and in optimal allocation each player i plays Pi

  • Each Pi contains facilities

  • At NE player i plays alone facilites of each Pj

  • At NE each pair of players play together facilities of each Pj



Lower bound game construction for symmetric games cont’

  • At NE A,

  • We want that at NE no players will switch to Pj

  • For NE we need

  • Which proves the PoA of (5N-2)/(2N+1)



Max social cost PoA

  • Unweighted pure strategy cases only

  • Symmetric case

    • Lower bound already shown
  • Asymmetric case



Asymmetric case upper bound

  • Let A be a NE, P optimal allocation, w.l.o.g Max(A)=c1(A), the NE imply

  • Denote the players in A that use facilities of P1

  • The avg. social cost lower bound showed



Asymmetric case upper bound

  • Combining the last 2 inequalities

  • substitute in the first inequality



Asymmetric case lower bound



Symmetric case upper bound

  • Let A be a NE, P optimal allocation, w.l.o.g Max(A)=c1(A), the NE imply

  • Summing for all possible j in P and using the lemma

  • Using the avg. social cost lower bound



Polynomial latency function

  • The latency functions are polynomials of bounded degree p

  • The proofs for PoA of linear latency functions are quite similar to those of polynomial latencies



Polynomial latencies cost PoA

  • For polynomials of degree p, nonnegative coefficients

  • Avg. social cost

  • weighted requests, unweighted requests, symmetric games, asymmetric games, pure strategies, mixed strategies

  • Max social cost



Upper bound unweighted requests polynomial latencies

  • Instead of the lemma for linear functions

  • for a pair of nonnegative integers a,b

  • A new lemma is used, if f(x) polynomial in x with nonnegative coefficients, of degree p, for nonegative x and y

  • Where



Upper bound unweighted requests polynomial latencies cont’

  • In a NE A and an optimal P allocation

  • The inequality holds since moving from a NE does not decrease the cost

  • Summing for all players we get



Upper bound unweighted requests polynomial latencies cont’

  • Using the lemma we get

  • And thus

  • And the upper bound is proven



Lower bound game construction for symmetric games

  • The facilities will be in N sets of the same size P1,P2,…,Pn

  • Each Pi is a pure strategy and in optimal allocation each player i plays Pi

  • Each Pj contains N facilities

  • At NE player i plays



Lower bound game construction for symmetric games cont’

  • At NE A,

  • We want that at NE no players will switch to Pj

  • For NE we need to select N such that

  • For opt

  • The PoA is

  • Which proves the PoA of when choosing N that satisfies the equation



Asymmetric case lower bound almost like in the linear case



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