Incentive Design without Hypergradients: A Social-Gradient Method

arXiv:2604.11346 · math.OC, cs.GT, cs.MA, cs.SY, eess.SY · Submitted 2026-04-13 · Read on arXiv

math.OC, cs.GT, cs.MA, cs.SY, eess.SY

Submitted: 2026-04-13

Updated: 2026-09-18

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

Gradient Flow — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Nash Equilibrium — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Information Asymmetry — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Conference on Decision and Control — 2× in this paper
Mathematical Program with Equilibrium Constraints — 2× in this paper
Adjacency Matrix — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Lyapunov function — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

Adaptive Incentive Design with Learning Agents

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