Salam Afiouni

2 accepted papers

2026

Colonel Blotto with Battlefield Games

Salam Afiouni, Jakub Černý, Chun Kai Ling, Christian Kroer

AAAI 2026technical

We study a class of two-player zero-sum Colonel Blotto games in which, after allocating soldiers across battlefields, players engage in (possibly distinct) normal-form games on each battlefield. Per-battlefield payoffs are parameterized by the soldier allocations. This generalizes the classical Blot

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2025

Commitment to Sparse Strategies in Two-Player Games

Salam Afiouni, Jakub Černý, Chun Kai Ling, Christian Kroer

AAAI 2025technical

While Nash equilibria are guaranteed to exist, they may exhibit dense support, making them difficult to understand and execute in some applications. In this paper, we study k-sparse commitments in games where one player is restricted to mixed strategies with support size at most k. Finding k-sparse…

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