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Mean-field games arise in various fields including economics, engineering, and machine learning. They study strategic decision making in large populations where the individuals interact via certain mean-field quantities. The ground metrics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Lisang Ding , Wuchen Li , Stanley Osher , Wotao Yin

Mean Field Games (MFG) are the class of games with a very large number of agents and the standard equilibrium concept is a Mean Field Equilibrium (MFE). Algorithms for learning MFE in dynamic MFGs are unknown in general. Our focus is on an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Kiyeob Lee , Desik Rengarajan , Dileep Kalathil , Srinivas Shakkottai

In this paper, zero-sum mean-field type games (ZSMFTG) with linear dynamics and quadratic cost are studied under infinite-horizon discounted utility function. ZSMFTG are a class of games in which two decision makers whose utilities sum to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-02 René Carmona , Kenza Hamidouche , Mathieu Laurière , Zongjun Tan

In Mean Field Games of Controls, the dynamics of the single agent is influenced not only by the distribution of the agents, as in the classical theory, but also by the distribution of their optimal strategies. In this paper, we study…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Fabio Camilli , Claudio Marchi

Mean-Field Control (MFC) is a powerful tool to solve Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) problems. Recent studies have shown that MFC can well-approximate MARL when the population size is large and the agents are exchangeable.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Washim Uddin Mondal , Vaneet Aggarwal , Satish V. Ukkusuri

We consider the general problem of resource sharing in societal networks, consisting of interconnected communication, transportation, energy and other networks important to the functioning of society. Participants in such network need to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Jian Li , Bainan Xia , Xinbo Geng , Hao Ming , Srinivas Shakkottai , Vijay Subramanian , Le Xie

In the present work, we study deterministic mean field games (MFGs) with finite time horizon in which the dynamics of a generic agent is controlled by the acceleration. They are described by a system of PDEs coupling a continuity equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Yves Achdou , Paola Mannucci , Claudio Marchi , Nicoletta Tchou

This article develops an intergenerational mean-field-type game (MFTG) to model Mali's and neighbouring countries multi-actor conflict ecosystem, which includes formal state forces, traditional hunters, nonstate militias, jihadists,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-20 Hamidou Tembine

This paper presents a model of capital accumulation for a large number of heterogenous producer-consumers in an exchange space in which interactions depend on agents' positions. Each agent is described by his production, consumption, stock…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-09-26 Pierre Gosselin , Aïleen Lotz , Marc Wambst

For noncooperative games the mean field (MF) methodology provides decentralized strategies which yield Nash equilibria for large population systems in the asymptotic limit of an infinite (mass) population. The MF control laws use only the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-22 Arman C. Kizilkale , Peter E. Caines

We propose and analyze a framework for mean-field Markov games under model uncertainty. In this framework, a state-measure flow describing the collective behavior of a population affects the given reward function as well as the unknown…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Johannes Langner , Ariel Neufeld , Kyunghyun Park

In this paper, we introduce discrete-time linear mean-field games subject to an infinite-horizon discounted-cost optimality criterion. The state space of a generic agent is a compact Borel space. At every time, each agent is randomly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Naci Saldi

Motivated by models of epidemic control in large populations, we consider a Stackelberg mean field game model between a principal and a mean field of agents evolving on a finite state space. The agents play a non-cooperative game in which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Alexander Aurell , Rene Carmona , Gokce Dayanikli , Mathieu Lauriere

In this paper, zero-sum mean-field type games (ZSMFTG) with linear dynamics and quadratic utility are studied under infinite-horizon discounted utility function. ZSMFTG are a class of games in which two decision makers whose utilities sum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-07 René Carmona , Kenza Hamidouche , Mathieu Laurière , Zongjun Tan

Mean field Master equations for the norm game are investigated. The strategies are: to obey the norm or not and to punish those who break it or not. The punishment, the temptation, the punishment cost and the relaxation of vengeance are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-02-05 K. Kulakowski

Mean-field games (MFG) provide a statistical physics inspired modeling framework for decision making in large-populations of strategic, non-cooperative agents. Mathematically, these systems consist of a forward-backward in time system of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-05-10 Ali Akbar Rezaei Lori , Piyush Grover

The standard solution concept for stochastic games is Markov perfect equilibrium (MPE); however, its computation becomes intractable as the number of players increases. Instead, we consider mean field equilibrium (MFE) that has been…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-06-05 Bar Light , Gabriel Weintraub

We discuss a simple version of the Minority Game (MG) in which agents hold only one strategy each, but in which their capitals evolve dynamically according to their success and in which the total trading volume varies in time accordingly.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 Tobias Galla , Yi-Cheng Zhang

Mean Field Games (MFG) have been introduced to tackle games with a large number of competing players. Considering the limit when the number of players is infinite, Nash equilibria are studied by considering the interaction of a typical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-14 Mathieu Lauriere

A standard assumption in mean-field game (MFG) theory is that the coupling between the Hamilton-Jacobi equation and the transport equation is monotonically non-decreasing in the density of the population. In many cases, this assumption…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Diogo A. Gomes , Levon Nurbekyan , Mariana Prazeres