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The cornerstone underpinning deep learning is the guarantee that gradient descent on an objective converges to local minima. Unfortunately, this guarantee fails in settings, such as generative adversarial nets, where there are multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-07 David Balduzzi , Sebastien Racaniere , James Martens , Jakob Foerster , Karl Tuyls , Thore Graepel

We consider a beam equation in presence of a leading degenerate operator which is not in divergence form. We impose clamped conditions where the degeneracy occurs and dissipative conditions at the other endpoint. We provide some conditions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Alessandro Camasta , Genni Fragnelli

We prove the local boundedness of the solutions to degenerate second order partial differential equations of Kolmogorov type with measurable coefficients in divergence form, under minimal integrability assumption on the lower order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-31 Francesca Anceschi , Sergio Polidoro , Maria Alessandra Ragusa

In this study, we employ the established Carleman estimates and propagation estimates of smallness from measurable sets for real analytic functions, along with the telescoping series method, to establish an observability inequality for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Yuanhang Liu , Weijia Wu , Donghui Yang , Can Zhang

In this paper, using variational approaches, we investigate the first order planning problem arising in the theory of mean field games. We show the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions of the problem in the case of a large class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-21 P. Jameson Graber , Alpár R. Mészáros , Francisco J. Silva , Daniela Tonon

We study well-posedness of degenerate mixed-type parabolic-hyperbolic equations $$ \partial_tu+\text{div}\big(f(u)\big)=\mathcal{L}[b(u)] $$ on bounded domains with general Dirichlet boundary/exterior conditions. The nonlocal diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Nathaël Alibaud , Jørgen Endal , Espen Jakobsen , Ola Mæhlen

In this paper we describe the long time behavior of solutions to quasi-linear parabolic equations with a small parameter at the second order term and the long time behavior of corresponding diffusion processes.

Probability · Mathematics 2012-07-03 M. Freidlin , L. Koralov

For a class of finite horizon first order mean field games and associated N-player games, we give a simple proof of convergence of symmetric N-player Nash equilibria in distributed open-loop strategies to solutions of the mean field game in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-11 Markus Fischer , Francisco J. Silva

We study a degenerate second order mean field game (MFG) system in a Hilbert space $H$ which couples a Fokker--Planck equation describing the evolution of probability measures on $H$ with a Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equation for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Andrzej Święch , Lukas Wessels

In this paper, we develop an analytical framework for the partial differential equation underlying the consensus-based optimization model. The main challenge arises from the nonlinear, nonlocal nature of the consensus point, coupled with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Jinhuan Wang , Keyu Li , Hui Huang

Partial order reductions have been successfully applied to model checking of concurrent systems and practical applications of the technique show nontrivial reduction in the size of the explored state space. We present a theory of partial…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Frederik Meyer Bønneland , Peter Gjøl Jensen , Kim Guldstrand Larsen , Marco Muñiz , Jiří Srba

This paper investigates a linear-quadratic mean field games problem with common noise, where the drift term and diffusion term of individual state equations are coupled with both the state, control, and mean field terms of the state, and we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Wenyu Cong , Jingtao Shi , Bingchang Wang

Our main contributions include proving sufficient conditions for the existence of solution to a second order problem with nonzero nonlocal initial conditions, and providing a comprehensive analysis using fundamental solutions and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Sajid Ullah , Vittorio Colao

Multiscale analysis of a degenerate pseudoparabolic variational inequality, modelling the two-phase flow with dynamical capillary pressure in a perforated domain, is the main topic of this work. Regularisation and penalty operator methods…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-01 Mariya Ptashnyk

A cross-diffusion system describing ion transport through biological membranes or nanopores in a bounded domain with mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions is analyzed. The ion concentrations solve strongly coupled diffusion equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-23 Anita Gerstenmayer , Ansgar Jüngel

We consider mildly degenerate Kirchhoff equations with a small parameter and a weak dissipation term. We prove the existence of global solutions when the parameter is small with respect to the size of initial data. Then we provide…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-30 Marina Ghisi

We establish existence and uniqueness of solutions to evolutive fractional Mean Field Game systems with regularizing coupling, for any order of the fractional Laplacian $s\in(0,1)$. The existence is addressed via the vanishing viscosity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-09 Marco Cirant , Alessandro Goffi

We investigate linear parabolic equations in divergence form with singular coefficients and non-smooth boundary data. When the diffusion, drift, or potential terms, as well as the initial or boundary conditions, are distributions rather…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Arshyn Altybay , Alibek Yeskermessuly

The policy iteration method is a classical algorithm for solving optimal control problems. In this paper, we introduce a policy iteration method for Mean Field Games systems, and we study the convergence of this procedure to a solution of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Simone Cacace , Fabio Camilli , Alessandro Goffi

Coordination games with explicit spatial or relational structure are of interest to economists, ecologists, sociologists, and others studying emergent global properties in collective behavior. When assemblies of individuals seek to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-18 John S. McAlister , Nina H. Fefferman , Tadele A. Mengesha