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Alistair Benford

2 accepted papers

2025

Theoretical Guarantees for the Retention of Strict Nash Equilibria by Coevolutionary Algorithms

NeurIPS 2025poster

Most methods for finding a Nash equilibrium rely on procedures that operate over the entire action space, making them infeasible for settings with too many actions to be searched exhaustively. Randomised search heuristics such as coevolutionary algorithms offer benefits in such settings, however the…

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2025

Why Playing Against Diverse and Challenging Opponents Speeds Up Coevolution: A Theoretical Analysis on Combinatorial Games

NeurIPS 2025poster

Competitive coevolutionary algorithms (CoEAs) have a natural application to problems that are adversarial or feature strategic interaction. However, there is currently limited theoretical insight into how to avoid pathological behaviour associated with CoEAs. In this paper we use impartial combinato…

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