Local Updates, Global Learning (LUGL): Playing Games with non-incremental Learners

arXiv:2609.03660 · cs.LG, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-03 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-03

Updated: 2026-09-03

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures

DOI: 10.1109/TG.2026.3728111

Code: https://github.com/milecdav/Deep-CFR-2025

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

Terminology

• Regret — 28× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 11× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Q-learning — 9× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 4× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Loss Function — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Nash Equilibrium — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Actor — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cooperation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Deep Q-Networks — 1× in this paper
• Deep Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ensemble Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 25 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Theoretical Guarantees — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms
• Prioritized Experience Replay
• Othello is Solved
• Single Deep Counterfactual Regret Minimization
• DREAM: Deep Regret minimization with Advantage baselines and Model-free learning
• OpenSpiel: A Framework for Reinforcement Learning in Games
• Exploratory Gradient Boosting for Reinforcement Learning in Complex Domains
• Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning in OpenSpiel: A Reproduction Report

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