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Quantitative propagation of chaos for mean field Markov decision process with common noise

Optimization and Control 2022-07-27 v1 Probability

Abstract

We investigate propagation of chaos for mean field Markov Decision Process with common noise (CMKV-MDP), and when the optimization is performed over randomized open-loop controls on infinite horizon. We first state a rate of convergence of order MNγM_N^\gamma, where MNM_N is the mean rate of convergence in Wasserstein distance of the empirical measure, and γ(0,1]\gamma \in (0,1] is an explicit constant, in the limit of the value functions of NN-agent control problem with asymmetric open-loop controls, towards the value function of CMKV-MDP. Furthermore, we show how to explicitly construct (ϵ+O(MNγ))(\epsilon+\mathcal{O}(M_N^\gamma))-optimal policies for the NN-agent model from ϵ\epsilon-optimal policies for the CMKV-MDP. Our approach relies on sharp comparison between the Bellman operators in the NN-agent problem and the CMKV-MDP, and fine coupling of empirical measures.

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@article{arxiv.2207.12738,
  title  = {Quantitative propagation of chaos for mean field Markov decision process with common noise},
  author = {Médéric Motte and Huyên Pham},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.12738},
  year   = {2022}
}