English

An entropy minimization approach to second-order variational mean-field games

Optimization and Control 2019-04-01 v2 Analysis of PDEs Numerical Analysis

Abstract

We propose a new viewpoint on variational mean-field games with diffusion and quadratic Hamiltonian. We show the equivalence of such mean-field games with a relative entropy minimization at the level of probabilities on curves. We also address the time-discretization of such problems, establish Γ\Gamma-convergence results as the time step vanishes and propose an efficient algorithm relying on this entropic interpretation as well as on the Sinkhorn scaling algorithm.

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@article{arxiv.1807.09078,
  title  = {An entropy minimization approach to second-order variational mean-field games},
  author = {Jean-David Benamou and Guillaume Carlier and Simone Di Marino and Luca Nenna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.09078},
  year   = {2019}
}
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