English
Related papers

Related papers: Mean-Field Optimal Control

200 papers

The objective of this paper is to weaken the Lipschitz condition to a monotonicity condition and to study the corresponding Pontryagin stochastic maximum principle (SMP) for a mean-field optimal control problem under monotonicity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Bowen He , Juan Li , Zhanxin Li

In this paper, we study a model for opinion dynamics where the influence weights of agents evolve in time via an equation which is coupled with the opinions' evolution. We explore the natural question of the large population limit with two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Nathalie Ayi , Nastassia Pouradier Duteil

Many applications involving multi-agent systems require fulfilling safety constraints. Control barrier functions offer a systematic framework to enforce forward invariance of safety sets. Recent work extended this paradigm to mean-field…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Cinzia Tomaselli , Gian Carlo Maffettone , Samy Wu Fung , Levon Nurbekyan , Mario di Bernardo

In ergodic singular stochastic control problems, a decision-maker can instantaneously adjust the evolution of a state variable using a control of bounded variation, with the goal of minimizing a long-term average cost functional. The cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Alessandro Calvia , Federico Cannerozzi , Giorgio Ferrari

We consider the control of McKean-Vlasov dynamics whose coefficients have mean field interactions in the state and control. We show that for a class of linear-convex mean field control problems, the unique optimal open-loop control admits…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-27 Christoph Reisinger , Wolfgang Stockinger , Yufei Zhang

We study a class of stochastic exchangeable teams comprising a finite number of decision makers (DMs) as well as their mean-field limits involving infinite numbers of DMs. In the finite population regime, we study exchangeable teams under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Sina Sanjari , Naci Saldi , Serdar Yüksel

This paper is concerned with uniform stabilization and social optimality for general mean field linear quadratic control systems, where subsystems are coupled via individual dynamics and costs, and the state weight is not assumed with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-02 Bing-Chang Wang , Huanshui Zhang , Ji-Feng Zhang

In this paper, a novel distributed optimization framework has been proposed. The key idea is to convert optimization problems into optimal control problems where the objective of each agent is to design the current control input minimizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Ziyuan Guo , Yue Sun , Yeming Xu , Liping Zhang , Huanshui Zhang

This paper analyzes the convergence of the finite population optimal stopping problem towards the corresponding mean field limit. Building on the viscosity solution characterization of the mean field optimal stopping problem of our previous…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Mehdi Talbi , Nizar Touzi , Jianfeng Zhang

We study a family of McKean-Vlasov (mean-field) type ergodic optimal control problems with linear control, and quadratic dependence on control of the cost function. For this class of problems we establish existence and uniqueness of an…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Sergio Albeverio , Francesco C. De Vecchi , Andrea Romano , Stefania Ugolini

This paper is devoted to the numerical resolution of McKean-Vlasov control problems via the class of mean-field neural networks introduced in our companion paper [25] in order to learn the solution on the Wasserstein space. We propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Huyên Pham , Xavier Warin

We study methods for solving stochastic control problems of systems of forward-backward mean-field equations with delay, in finite or infinite horizon. Necessary and sufficient maximum principles under partial information are given. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Nacira Agram , Elin Engen Rose

In this paper, we study the optimal control system driven by stochastic differential equations (SDEs) of mean-field type, in which the control variable has two components, the first being absolutely continuous and the second singular. On…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-02 Liangquan Zhang

Coordinating large populations of autonomous agents, such as UAV swarms or satellite constellations, poses significant computational challenges for traditional multi-agent control methods. This paper introduces a new optimization framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Di Yu , Sixiong You , Chaoying Pei

The mean-field limit in a weakly interacting stochastic many-particle system for multiple population species in the whole space is proved. The limiting system consists of cross-diffusion equations, modeling the segregation of populations.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Li Chen , Esther S. Daus , Ansgar Jüngel

Opinion dynamics is nowadays a very common field of research. In this article we formulate and then study a novel, namely strategic perspective on such dynamics: There are the usual normal agents that update their opinions, for instance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-09 Rainer Hegselmann , Stefan König , Sascha Kurz , Christoph Niemann , Jörg Rambau

The mean-field control problem for a multi-dimensional diffusion-aggregation system with Coulomb interaction (the so called parabolic elliptic Keller-Segel system) is considered. The existence of optimal control is proved through the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Li Chen , Yucheng Wang , Zhao Wang

We study the optimal control problem for a weighted mean-field system. A new feature of the control problem is that the coefficients depend on the state process as well as its weighted measure and the control variable. By applying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Yanyan Tang , Jie Xiong

This paper investigates a class of unified stochastic linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) social optima problems involving a large number of weakly-coupled interactive agents under a {generalized} setting. For each individual agent, the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Zhenghong Qiu , Jianhui Huang , Tinghan Xie

Collaborative multi-agent robotic systems where agents coordinate by modifying a shared environment often result in undesired dynamical couplings that complicate the analysis and experiments when solving a specific problem or task.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Daniel Jarne Ornia , Pedro J Zufiria , Manuel Mazo