BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250515T082036EDT-7100azRf6s@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250515T122036Z DESCRIPTION:\n Dynamic Games and Applications Seminar\n Speaker: Vivek Borkar  – Department of Electrical Engineering\, IIT Bombay\, India\n\n Webinar li nk\n Webinar ID: 881 6070 4034\n Passcode: 095916\n\n In this talk\, I introd uce a model of graph-constrained dynamic choice with reinforcement modeled by positively α-homogeneous rewards. Its empirical process\, which can be written as a stochastic approximation recursion with Markov noise\, has t he same probability law as a certain vertex reinforced random walk. Thus\, the limiting differential equation that it tracks coincides with the forw ard Kolmogorov equation for the latter\, which in turn is a scaled version of a special instance of replicator dynamics with potential. This equival ence is exploited to show that for α>0\, the asymptotic outcome concentrat es around the optimum in a certain limiting sense when 'annealed' by letti ng α↑∞ slowly. \n\n (Joint work with Konstantin Avrachenkov\, Sharayu Mohar ir and Suhail Mohmad Shah.)\n\n DTSTART:20210520T150000Z DTEND:20210520T160000Z LOCATION:CA\, ZOOM SUMMARY:Graph-constrained dynamic choice URL:/cim/channels/event/graph-constrained-dynamic-choi ce-331138 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR