Preprint
Aug 2026
Beyond Best Response: Quantal Stackelberg Deception as Insurance Against Attacker Misspecification
An empirical evaluation in a cybersecurity case study with two networks and real vulnerabilities drawn from CVE and scored using the Common Vulnerability Scoring System shows that QSE beats Stackelberg in realized defender utility spanning 144 scenarios with specification errors and 25 parameter configurations.
Asif Rahman, Md Abu Sayed, Ahmed Ann Noor Ryen et al.
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