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Reconstructing a state-independent cost function in a mean-field game model

Analysis of PDEs 2024-08-16 v2 Optimization and Control

Abstract

In this short note, we consider an inverse problem to a mean-field games system where we are interested in reconstructing the state-independent running cost function from observed value-function data. We provide an elementary proof of a uniqueness result for the inverse problem using the standard multilinearization technique. One of the main features of our work is that we insist that the population distribution be a probability measure, a requirement that is not enforced in some of the existing literature on theoretical inverse mean-field games.

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@article{arxiv.2402.09297,
  title  = {Reconstructing a state-independent cost function in a mean-field game model},
  author = {Kui Ren and Nathan Soedjak and Kewei Wang and Hongyu Zhai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.09297},
  year   = {2024}
}
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