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Learning operators on labelled conditional distributions with applications to mean field control of non exchangeable systems

Optimization and Control 2026-03-24 v1 Probability Machine Learning

Abstract

We study the approximation of operators acting on probability measures on a product space with prescribed marginal. Let II be a label space endowed with a reference measure λ\lambda, and define Mλ\cal M_\lambda as the set of probability measures on I×RdI\times \mathbb{R}^d with first marginal λ\lambda. By disintegration, elements of Mλ\cal M_\lambda correspond to families of labeled conditional distributions. Operators defined on this constrained measure space arise naturally in mean-field control problems with heterogeneous, non-exchangeable agents. Our main theoretical result establishes a universal approximation theorem for continuous operators on Mλ\cal M_\lambda. The proof combines cylindrical approximations of probability measures with DeepONet-type branch-trunk neural architecture, yielding finite-dimensional representations of such operators. We further introduce a sampling strategy for generating training measures in Mλ\cal M_\lambda, enabling practical learning of such conditional mean-field operators. We apply the method to the numerical resolution of mean-field control problems with heterogeneous interactions, thereby extending previous neural approaches developed for homogeneous (exchangeable) systems. Numerical experiments illustrate the accuracy and computational effectiveness of the proposed framework.

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@article{arxiv.2603.21683,
  title  = {Learning operators on labelled conditional distributions with applications to mean field control of non exchangeable systems},
  author = {Samy Mekkaoui and Huyên Pham and Xavier Warin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.21683},
  year   = {2026}
}