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Uniform-in-time propagation of chaos for consensus-based minimax algorithm

Probability 2026-02-17 v1

Abstract

We study the large-population convergence of a consensus-based algorithm for the saddle point problem proposed by ArXiv: 2212.12334, establishing the uniform-in-time propagation of chaos using a coupling method. Our work shows that the L2L^2-deviation has order O(N11+N21)O(N_1^{-1} + N_2^{-1}) uniformly in time, where N1N_1 and N2N_2 denote the numbers of particles corresponding to the two competing players. It demonstrates the convergence of the particles to some location near a saddle point of the given objective function, which confirms the computational feasibility of the algorithm. The main idea behind the proofs is the exponential decay and the concentration of the variances of the particle system.

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@article{arxiv.2602.14403,
  title  = {Uniform-in-time propagation of chaos for consensus-based minimax algorithm},
  author = {Erhan Bayraktar and Zhiyan Ding and Ibrahim Ekren and Hongyi Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.14403},
  year   = {2026}
}

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KEYWORDS: Saddle point problem, Consensus-based algorithm, Propagation of chaos, Coupling method

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