Source code for quantecon.game_theory.support_enumeration

"""
Author: Daisuke Oyama

Compute all mixed Nash equilibria of a 2-player (non-degenerate) normal
form game by support enumeration.

References
----------
B. von Stengel, "Equilibrium Computation for Two-Player Games in
Strategic and Extensive Form," Chapter 3, N. Nisan, T. Roughgarden, E.
Tardos, and V. Vazirani eds., Algorithmic Game Theory, 2007.

"""
from distutils.version import LooseVersion
import numpy as np
import numba
from numba import jit


least_numba_version = LooseVersion('0.28')
is_numba_required_installed = True
if LooseVersion(numba.__version__) < least_numba_version:
    is_numba_required_installed = False
nopython = is_numba_required_installed

EPS = np.finfo(float).eps


[docs]def support_enumeration(g): """ Compute mixed-action Nash equilibria with equal support size for a 2-player normal form game by support enumeration. For a non-degenerate game input, these are all Nash equilibria. The algorithm checks all the equal-size support pairs; if the players have the same number n of actions, there are 2n choose n minus 1 such pairs. This should thus be used only for small games. Parameters ---------- g : NormalFormGame NormalFormGame instance with 2 players. Returns ------- list(tuple(ndarray(float, ndim=1))) List containing tuples of Nash equilibrium mixed actions. Notes ----- This routine is jit-complied if Numba version 0.28 or above is installed. """ return list(support_enumeration_gen(g))
[docs]def support_enumeration_gen(g): """ Generator version of `support_enumeration`. Parameters ---------- g : NormalFormGame NormalFormGame instance with 2 players. Yields ------- tuple(ndarray(float, ndim=1)) Tuple of Nash equilibrium mixed actions. """ try: N = g.N except: raise TypeError('input must be a 2-player NormalFormGame') if N != 2: raise NotImplementedError('Implemented only for 2-player games') return _support_enumeration_gen(g.players[0].payoff_array, g.players[1].payoff_array)
@jit(nopython=nopython) # cache=True raises _pickle.PicklingError def _support_enumeration_gen(payoff_matrix0, payoff_matrix1): """ Main body of `support_enumeration_gen`. Parameters ---------- payoff_matrix0 : ndarray(float, ndim=2) Payoff matrix for player 0, of shape (m, n) payoff_matrix1 : ndarray(float, ndim=2) Payoff matrix for player 1, of shape (n, m) Yields ------ out : tuple(ndarray(float, ndim=1)) Tuple of Nash equilibrium mixed actions, of lengths m and n, respectively. """ nums_actions = payoff_matrix0.shape[0], payoff_matrix1.shape[0] n_min = min(nums_actions) for k in range(1, n_min+1): supps = (np.arange(k), np.empty(k, np.int_)) actions = (np.empty(k), np.empty(k)) A = np.empty((k+1, k+1)) A[:-1, -1] = -1 A[-1, :-1] = 1 A[-1, -1] = 0 b = np.zeros(k+1) b[-1] = 1 while supps[0][-1] < nums_actions[0]: supps[1][:] = np.arange(k) while supps[1][-1] < nums_actions[1]: if _indiff_mixed_action(payoff_matrix0, supps[0], supps[1], A, b, actions[1]): if _indiff_mixed_action(payoff_matrix1, supps[1], supps[0], A, b, actions[0]): out = (np.zeros(nums_actions[0]), np.zeros(nums_actions[1])) for p, (supp, action) in enumerate(zip(supps, actions)): out[p][supp] = action yield out next_k_array(supps[1]) next_k_array(supps[0]) @jit(nopython=nopython) def _indiff_mixed_action(payoff_matrix, own_supp, opp_supp, A, b, out): """ Given a player's payoff matrix `payoff_matrix`, an array `own_supp` of this player's actions, and an array `opp_supp` of the opponent's actions, each of length k, compute the opponent's mixed action whose support equals `opp_supp` and for which the player is indifferent among the actions in `own_supp`, if any such exists. Return `True` if such a mixed action exists and actions in `own_supp` are indeed best responses to it, in which case the outcome is stored in `out`; `False` otherwise. Arrays `A` and `b` are used in intermediate steps. Parameters ---------- payoff_matrix : ndarray(ndim=2) The player's payoff matrix, of shape (m, n). own_supp : ndarray(int, ndim=1) Array containing the player's action indices, of length k. opp_supp : ndarray(int, ndim=1) Array containing the opponent's action indices, of length k. A : ndarray(float, ndim=2) Array used in intermediate steps, of shape (k+1, k+1). The following values must be assigned in advance: `A[:-1, -1] = -1`, `A[-1, :-1] = 1`, and `A[-1, -1] = 0`. b : ndarray(float, ndim=1) Array used in intermediate steps, of shape (k+1,). The following values must be assigned in advance `b[:-1] = 0` and `b[-1] = 1`. out : ndarray(float, ndim=1) Array of length k to store the k nonzero values of the desired mixed action. Returns ------- bool `True` if a desired mixed action exists and `False` otherwise. """ m = payoff_matrix.shape[0] k = len(own_supp) A[:-1, :-1] = payoff_matrix[own_supp, :][:, opp_supp] if is_singular(A): return False sol = np.linalg.solve(A, b) if (sol[:-1] <= 0).any(): return False out[:] = sol[:-1] val = sol[-1] if k == m: return True own_supp_flags = np.zeros(m, np.bool_) own_supp_flags[own_supp] = True for i in range(m): if not own_supp_flags[i]: payoff = 0 for j in range(k): payoff += payoff_matrix[i, opp_supp[j]] * out[j] if payoff > val: return False return True @jit(nopython=True, cache=True)
[docs]def next_k_combination(x): """ Find the next k-combination, as described by an integer in binary representation with the k set bits, by "Gosper's hack". Copy-paste from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_number_system Parameters ---------- x : int Integer with k set bits. Returns ------- int Smallest integer > x with k set bits. """ u = x & -x v = u + x return v + (((v ^ x) // u) >> 2)
@jit(nopython=True, cache=True)
[docs]def next_k_array(a): """ Given an array `a` of k distinct nonnegative integers, return the next k-array in lexicographic ordering of the descending sequences of the elements. `a` is modified in place. Parameters ---------- a : ndarray(int, ndim=1) Array of length k. Returns ------- a : ndarray(int, ndim=1) View of `a`. Examples -------- Enumerate all the subsets with k elements of the set {0, ..., n-1}. >>> n, k = 4, 2 >>> a = np.arange(k) >>> while a[-1] < n: ... print(a) ... a = next_k_array(a) ... [0 1] [0 2] [1 2] [0 3] [1 3] [2 3] """ k = len(a) if k == 0: return a x = 0 for i in range(k): x += (1 << a[i]) x = next_k_combination(x) pos = 0 for i in range(k): while x & 1 == 0: x = x >> 1 pos += 1 a[i] = pos x = x >> 1 pos += 1 return a
if is_numba_required_installed: @jit(nopython=True, cache=True) def is_singular(a): s = numba.targets.linalg._compute_singular_values(a) if s[-1] <= s[0] * EPS: return True else: return False else:
[docs] def is_singular(a): s = np.linalg.svd(a, compute_uv=False) if s[-1] <= s[0] * EPS: return True else: return False
_is_singular_docstr = \ """ Determine whether matrix `a` is numerically singular, by checking its singular values. Parameters ---------- a : ndarray(float, ndim=2) 2-dimensional array of floats. Returns ------- bool Whether `a` is numerically singular. """ is_singular.__doc__ = _is_singular_docstr