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Finding equilibria in large Finding equilibria in large sequential games of sequential games of
imperfect informationimperfect information
Andrew GilpinAndrew Gilpin and and Tuomas SandholmTuomas SandholmCarnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon University
Computer Science DepartmentComputer Science Department
Motivation: Poker
• Poker is a wildly popular card game– This year’s World Series of Poker prize pool
surpassed $103 million, including $56 million for the World Championship event
– ESPN is broadcasting parts of the tournament
• Poker presents several challenges for AI– Imperfect information– Risk assessment and management– Deception (bluffing, slow-playing)– Counter-deception (calling a bluff)
Rhode Island Hold’em poker:
The Deal
Rhode Island Hold’em poker:
Round 1
Rhode Island Hold’em poker:
Round 2
Rhode Island Hold’em poker:
Round 3
Rhode Island Hold’em poker:
Showdown
Sneak preview of results:Solving Rhode Island Hold’em poker
• Rhode Island Hold’em poker invented as a testbed for AI research [Shi & Littman 2001]
• Game tree has more than 3.1 billion nodes
• Previously, the best techniques did not scale to games this large
• Using our algorithm we have computed optimal strategies for this game
• This is the largest poker game solved to date by over four orders of magnitude
Outline of this talk
• Game-theoretic foundations: Equilibrium
• Model: Ordered games
• Abstraction mechanism: Information filters
• Strategic equivalence: Game isomorphisms
• Algorithm: GameShrink
• Solving Rhode Island Hold’em
Game Theory
• In multi-agent systems, an agent’s outcome depends on the actions of the other agents
• Consequently, an agent’s optimal action depends on the actions of the other agents
• Game theory provides guidance as to how an agent should act
• A game-theoretic equilibrium specifies a strategy for each agent such that no agent wishes to deviate– Such an equilibrium always exists [Nash 1950]
A simple example
0, 0 -1, 1 1, -1
1, -1 0, 0 -1, 1
-1, 1 1, -1 0, 0
Rock
Rock
Paper
Scissors
ScissorsPaper
1/3
1/3
1/3
1/3 1/3 1/3
Complexity of computing equilibria
• Finding a Nash equilibrium is “A most fundamental computational problem whose complexity is wide open [and] together with factoring … the most important concrete open question on the boundary of P today” [Papadimitriou 2001]– Even for games with only two players
• There are algorithms (requiring exponential-time in the worst-case) for computing Nash equilibria
• Good news: Two-person zero-sum matrix games can be solved in poly-time using linear programming
What about sequential games?
• Sequential games involve turn-taking, moves of chance, and imperfect information
• Every sequential game can be converted into a simultaneous-move game– Basic idea: Make one strategy in the simultaneous-
move game for every possible action in every possible situation in the sequential game
– This approach leads to an exponential blowup in the number of strategies
Sequence form representation
• The sequence form is an alternative representation that is more compact [Koller, Megiddo, von Stengel, Romanovskii]
• Using the sequence form, two-player zero-sum games with perfect recall can be solved in time polynomial in the size of the game tree– But, Texas Hold’em has 1018 nodes
Our approach
• Instead of developing an equilibrium-finding algorithm per se, we instead introduce an automated abstraction technique that results in a smaller, equivalent game
• We prove that a Nash equilibrium in the smaller game corresponds to a Nash equilibrium in the original game
• Our technique applies to n-player sequential games with observed actions and ordered signals
Illustration of our approach
Nash equilibriumNash equilibrium
Original gameAbstracted game
Abstraction
Compute Nash
Game with ordered signals(a.k.a. ordered game)
1. Players I = {1,…,n}
2. Stage games G = G1,…,Gr
3. Player label L
4. Game-ending nodes ω
5. Signal alphabet Θ
6. Signal quantities κ = κ1,…,κr and γ = γ1,…,γr
7. Signal probability distribution p
8. Partial ordering ≥ of subsets of Θ
9. Utility function u (increasing in private signals)
I = {1,2}
Θ = {2♠,…,A♦}κ = (0,1,1)γ = (1,0,0)
UniformHand rank
Information filters• Observation: We can make games smaller by filtering
the information a player receives• Instead of observing a specific signal exactly, a player
instead observes a filtered set of signals– E.g. receiving the signal {A♠,A♣,A♥,A♦} instead of A♠
• Combining an ordered game and a valid information filter yields a filtered ordered game
• Prop. A filtered ordered game is a finite sequential game with perfect recall– Corollary If the filtered ordered game is two-person zero-
sum, we can solve it in poly-time using linear programming
Filtered signal trees
• Every filtered ordered game has a corresponding filtered signal tree– Each edge corresponds to the revelation of some signal– Each path corresponds to the revelation of a set of
signals
• Our algorithms operate directly on the filtered signal tree– We never load the full game representation into
memory
Ordered game isomorphic relation
• The ordered game isomorphic relation captures the notion of strategic symmetry between nodes
• We define the relationship recursively:– Two leaves are ordered game isomorphic if the payoffs to all
players are the same at each leaf, for all action histories
– Two internal nodes are ordered game isomorphic if they are siblings and there is a bijection between their children such that only ordered game isomorphic nodes are matched
• We can compute this relationship efficiently using dynamic programming and perfect matching computations in a bipartite graph
Ordered game isomorphic abstraction transformation
• This operation transforms an existing information filter into a new filter that merges two ordered game isomorphic nodes
• The new filter yields a smaller, abstracted game
• Thm If a strategy profile is a Nash equilibrium in the smaller, abstracted game, then it is a Nash equilibrium in the original game
GameShrink: Efficiently computing ordered game isomorphic abstraction transformations
• Recall: we have a dynamic program for determining if two nodes of the filtered signal tree are ordered game isomorphic
• Algorithm: Starting from the top of the filtered signal tree, perform the transformation where applicable
• Approximation algorithm: instead of requiring perfect matching, instead require a matching with a penalty below some threshold
GameShrink: Efficiently computing ordered game isomorphic abstraction transformations
• The Union-Find data structure provides an efficient representation of the information filter– Linear memory and almost linear time
• Can eliminate certain perfect matching computations by using easy-to-check necessary conditions– Compact histogram databases for storing win/loss frequencies to
speed up the checks
Solving Rhode Island Hold’em poker
• GameShrink computes all ordered game isomorphic abstraction transformations in under one second
• Without abstraction, the linear program has 91,224,226 rows and columns
• After applying GameShrink, the linear program has only 1,237,238 rows and columns
• By solving the resulting linear program, we are able to compute optimal min-max strategies for this game– CPLEX Barrier method takes 7 days, 17 hours and 25 GB
RAM to solve
• This is the largest poker game solved to date by over four orders of magnitude
Comparison to previous research
• Rule-based– Limited success in even small poker games
• Simulation/Learning– Do not take multi-agent aspect into account
• Game-theoretic– Manual abstraction
• “Approximating Game-Theoretic Optimal Strategies for Full-scale Poker”, Billings, Burch, Davidson, Holte, Schaeffer, Schauenberg, Szafron, IJCAI-03. Distinguished Paper Award.
– Automated abstraction
Directions for future work
• Computing strategies for larger games– Requires approximation of solutions
• Tournament poker
• More than two players
• Other types of abstraction
Summary• Introduced an automatic method for performing
abstractions in a broad class of games• Introduced information filters as a technique for
working with games with imperfect information• Developed an equilibrium-preserving abstraction
transformation, along with an efficient algorithm• Described a simple extension that yields an
approximation algorithm for tackling even larger games• Solved the largest poker game to date
– Playable on-line at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~gilpin/gsi.html
Thank you very much for your interest