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Linjian Meng

9 accepted papers

2026

Faster Parameter-Free Regret Matching Algorithms

ICLR 2026poster

Regret Matching (RM) and its variants are widely employed to learn a Nash equilibrium (NE) in large-scale games. However, most existing research only establishes a theoretical convergence rate of $O(1/\sqrt{T})$ for these algorithms in learning an NE. Recent studies have shown that smooth RM$^+$ var…

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2026

Tree-Based Stochastic Optimization for Solving Large-Scale Urban Network Security Games

AAAI 2026technical

Urban Network Security Games (UNSGs), which model the strategic allocation of limited security resources on city road networks, are critical for urban safety. However, finding a Nash Equilibrium (NE) in large-scale UNSGs is challenging due to their massive and combinatorial action spaces. One common

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Efficient Last-Iterate Convergence in Solving Extensive-Form Games

NeurIPS 2025poster

To establish last-iterate convergence for Counterfactual Regret Minimization (CFR) algorithms in learning a Nash equilibrium (NE) of extensive-form games (EFGs), recent studies reformulate learning an NE of the original EFG as learning the NEs of a sequence of (perturbed) regularized EFGs. Hence, pr…

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2025

Last-Iterate Convergence of Smooth Regret Matching$^+$ Variants in Learning Nash Equilibria

NeurIPS 2025poster

Regret Matching$^+$ (RM$^+$) variants are widely used to build superhuman Poker AIs, yet few studies investigate their last-iterate convergence in learning a Nash equilibrium (NE). Although their last-iterate convergence is established for games satisfying the Minty Variational Inequality (MVI), no…

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2025

Magnetic Preference Optimization: Achieving Last-iterate Convergence for Language Model Alignment

ICLR 2025poster

Self-play methods have demonstrated remarkable success in enhancing model capabilities across various domains. In the context of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), self-play not only boosts Large Language Model (LLM) performance but also overcomes the limitations of traditional Bradl…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2025

Reducing Variance of Stochastic Optimization for Approximating Nash Equilibria in Normal-Form Games

ICML 2025spotlight

Nash equilibrium (NE) plays an important role in game theory. How to efficiently compute an NE in NFGs is challenging due to its complexity and non-convex optimization property. Machine Learning (ML), the cornerstone of modern artificial intelligence, has demonstrated remarkable empirical performanc…

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2024

Safe and Robust Subgame Exploitation in Imperfect Information Games

ICML 2024poster

Opponent exploitation is an important task for players to exploit the weaknesses of others in games. Existing approaches mainly focus on balancing between exploitation and exploitability but are often vulnerable to modeling errors and deceptive adversaries. To address this problem, our paper offers…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2023

An Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Solving Imperfect Information Extensive-Form Games

AAAI 2023technical

One of the most popular methods for learning Nash equilibrium (NE) in large-scale imperfect information extensive-form games (IIEFGs) is the neural variants of counterfactual regret minimization (CFR). CFR is a special case of Follow-The-Regularized-Leader (FTRL). At each iteration, the neural varia…