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Publications

Preprints

  • Xinxiang Guo, Yifen Mu,The Optimal Strategy against Hedge Algorithm in Repeated Games.[arXiv]

  • Hongcheng Dong, Yifen Mu, The Optimal Strategy Against the Opponent Adopting Fictitious Play Algorithm in Infinitely Repeated 2x2 Games. [DOI]

  • Junyue Zhang, Yifen Mu，A Payoff-Based Policy Gradient Method in Stochastic Games with Long-Run Average Payoffs.[arXiv]

  • Zhouming Wu, Yifen Mu, Xiaoguang Yang, On the convergence of continuous-time fictitious play in 3×3 games via the geometrical approach. [arXiv]

  • Jiangjiang Cheng, Ge Chen, Zhouming Wu, Yifen Mu, An Optimal Pricing Formula for Smart Grid based on Stackelberg Game. [arXiv]

  • Zixin Feng, Wenchao Xue, Yifen Mu, Ming Wei, Bin Meng, Wei Cui, On Game Based Distributed Decision Approach for Multi-agent Optimal Coverage Problem with Application to Constellations Reconfiguration. [arXiv]

Books & Chapters

  • Yifen Mu, Lei Guo. A new class of control systems based on non-equilibrium games, in the book ‘Three Decades of Progress in Control Sciences’, editors: Xiaoming Hu, Ulf Jonsson, Bo Wahlberg, Bijoy K, Ghosh , Springer, 2010, invited chapter, Chapter 21, pp.313-326.

Selected Journal Papers

  • Yifen Mu, Stackelberg-Nash equilibrium, social welfare and optimal structure in hierarchical Public Goods game, System and Control Letters, 112:1-8, 2018. [PDF]

  • LI Yan, MU Yifen, YUAN Shuo, GUO Lei, The game theoretical approach for multi-phase complex systems in chemical engineering, Journal of System Science and Complexity, 30(1):4-19, 2017. [PDF]

  • Xinglong Qu, Zhigang Cao, Yifen Mu, Xiaoguang Yang, Repeated sequential Prisoner's Dilemma: the Stackelberg variant, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, 32(1): 1540009, DOI: 10.1142/S0217595915400096, 2015.

  • Yifen Mu, Inverse Stackelberg Public Goods Game with Multiple Hierarchies under Global and Local Information Structures, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 163:332-350, 2014. [PDF]

  • Yifen Mu, Lei Guo, How cooperation arises from rational players? SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, 56(11):1-9, 2013.[PDF]

  • Yifen Mu, Lei Guo, Towards a Theory of Game-Based Non-Equilibrium Control Systems, Journal of System Science and Complexity, 25(2): 209-226, 2012.[PDF]

Conference Papers

  • Xinxiang Guo , Yifen Mu, Xiaoguang Yang, Periodicity in dynamical games driven by the Hedge algorithm and myopic best response. Proc. IEEE 63rd Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp.3203-3208, Milan, Italy, December 16-19, 2024.

  • Wu, Zhouming, Mu Yifen, Yang Xiaoguang, Chen, Ge. Nash equilibrium solving for general non-zero-sum games from non-convergent dynamics of fictitious play. Proc. 43rd Chinese Control Conference, pp.8180-8187, Kunming, China, July28-31, 2024. (Guan Zhao-Zhi Award)

  • Hongcheng Dong, Yifen Mu, Parameter Identification for Fictitious Play Algorithm in Repeated Games, IWACIII 2023, CCIS 1931, pp. 270–282, Beijing, China, November 1-4, 2024. [LINK]

  • Xinxiang Guo, Yifen Mu, Taking Myopic Best Response Against The Hedge Algorithm, Proc. 42nd Chinese Control Conference, pp.8154-8158, Tianjin, China, July 24-26, 2023.

  • H.C. Dong, Y. Mu, How to exploit an opponent using Fictitious Play in infinitely repeated games ? Proc. 41nd Chinese Control Conference, pp.6852-6857, Hefei, China, July 25-27, 2022.

  • Y. Mu, The incentive controllability and incentive design problem for inverse Stackelberg Game: revisited, the 6th World Congress of the Game Theory Society(GAMES2020), (due to Covid), online, 2021.

  • Yifen MU, Xiaoping Guan, et al, New game theoretical model and GNE results for the flow structure in bubble columns, Proc. 38th Chinese Control Conference, pp.1045-1050, Guangzhou, China, July, 2019.

  • Shuo YUAN, Yifen MU, Zhixin Liu，A novel game theoretical model and generalized Nash equilibrium for meso-Scale flow structure in bubble columns, Proc. the 37th Chinese Control Conference, pp.1071-1076, Wuhan, China, July, 2018.

  • Mu Yifen, The incentive controllability and ε-incentive controllability in an inverse Stackelberg game, the 35th Chinese Control Conference, pp.50-55，Chengdu, China, 2016.

  • Mu Yifen, Equilibrium in repeated Public Goods Game with two-leaders-one-follower and one-step-memory, Proc the 34th Chinese Control Conference, Hangzhou, China：9157-9162，2015.

  • Qu Xinglong, Cao Zhigang, Mu Yifen, Yang Xiaoguang, Repeated sequential Prisoner’s Dilemma, Proc. 32nd Chinese Control Conference, pp.8301-8304, Xi’an, China, July 26-28, 2013.

  • Xin Wang, Yifen Mu, Jing Han, What strategies can induce cooperation between heterogeneous players? Proc. 31st Chinese Control Conference, pp.1153-1157, Hefei, China, July, 2012.

  • Yifen Mu, Lei Guo, How cooperation arises from rational players? Proc. 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp.6149-6154, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2010.

  • Daizhan Cheng, Yin Zhao, Yifen Mu, Strategy Optimization with Its Application to Dynamic Games, Proc. 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 5822-5827, Atlanta, US, 2010.

  • Yifen Mu, Lei Guo. Optimization and Identification in a Non-equilibrium Dynamic Game. Proc. 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp.5750-5755, Shanghai, China, 2009.