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New algorithm solves complex variational inequalities in polynomial time

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Researchers have developed a new polynomial-time algorithm for solving variational inequalities under the Minty condition, a problem that has historically been computationally challenging. This algorithm, which utilizes a novel variant of the ellipsoid method, offers a significant improvement over previous approaches by achieving a complexity that grows polynomially with the dimension and logarithm of the inverse of the desired precision. The work also establishes that determining the existence of a Minty condition solution is coNP-complete, while the disjunction of finding a solution or proving infeasibility is polynomial-time solvable. The findings have direct applications in computing Nash equilibria for multi-player harmonic games and general-sum concave games. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Ioannis Anagnostides, Gabriele Farina, Tuomas Sandholm, Brian Hu Zhang ·

    A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Variational Inequalities under the Minty Condition

    arXiv:2504.03432v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Solving (Stampacchia) variational inequalities (SVIs) is a foundational problem at the heart of optimization. However, this expressivity comes at the cost of computational hardness. As a result, most research has focused o…

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