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In this paper, we propose an initial value fomulation of the discrete mean field games on finite graphs (Graph MFG), and design a neural network based approach to solve it. Graph MFG describes infinite, non-cooperative and interactive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Yaxin Feng , Yang Xiang , Haomin Zhou

In this expository article, we give an overview of the concept of potential mean field games of first order. We give a new proof that minimizers of the potential are equilibria by using a Lagrangian formulation. We also provide criteria to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-20 P. Jameson Graber

In this paper, we consider a class of infinitely degenerate partial differential systems to obtain the Nash equilibria in the mean field games. The degeneracy in the diffusion and the Hamiltonian may be different. This feature brings…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Yiming Jiang , Jingchuang Ren , Yawei Wei , Jie Xue

In this paper, we establish the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions to first-order discount mean field games and a stability result to give the existence for the ergodic problem. We show an example to illustrate the multiplicity of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Hiroyoshi Mitake , Kengo Terai

We study continuous-time heterogeneous agent models cast as Mean Field Games, in the Aiyagari-Bewley-Huggett framework. The model couples a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for individual optimization with a Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Fabio Camilli , Qing Tang , Yong-shen Zhou

We search for non-constant normalized solutions to the semilinear elliptic system \[ \begin{cases} - \nu \Delta v_i + g_i(v_j^2) v_i = \lambda_i v_i,\quad v_i>0 & \text{in $\Omega$} \\ \partial_n v_i = 0 & \text{on $\partial \Omega$}\\…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Marco Cirant , Gianmaria Verzini

We consider a class of linear-quadratic-Gaussian mean-field games with a major agent and considerable heterogeneous minor agents in the presence of mean-field interactions. The individual admissible controls are constrained in closed convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Ying Hu , Jianhui Huang , Tianyang Nie

We study mean field games for large non--exchangeable populations with moderate local interactions and common noise. The finite--player system is driven by two complementary interaction mechanisms : a graphon--type structure, which encodes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Mao Fabrice Djete

In many stochastic games stemming from financial models, the environment evolves with latent factors and there may be common noise across agents' states. Two classic examples are: (i) multi-agent trading on electronic exchanges, and (ii)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Dena Firoozi , Peter E. Caines , Sebastian Jaimungal

In this paper, we consider two-state mean-field games and its dual formulation. We then discuss numerical methods for these problems. Finally, we present various numerical experiments, exhibiting different behaviours, including shock…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-23 Diogo A. Gomes , Roberto M. Velho , Marie-Therese Wolfram

We identify structural assumptions which provide solvability of the Nash system arising from a linear-quadratic closed-loop game, with stable properties with respect to the number of players. In a setting of interactions governed by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-15 Marco Cirant , Davide Francesco Redaelli

In a probabilistic mean-field game driven by a linear diffusion an individual player aims to minimize an ergodic long-run cost by controlling the diffusion through a pair of -- increasing and decreasing -- c\`adl\`ag processes, while he is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Sören Christensen , Ernesto Mordecki , Facundo Oliú Eguren

This paper establishes the existence of equilibria result of a class of mean field games with singular controls. The interaction takes place through both states and controls. A relaxed solution approach is used. To circumvent the tightness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Guanxing Fu

We study a class of stochastic dynamic games that exhibit strategic complementarities between players; formally, in the games we consider, the payoff of a player has increasing differences between her own state and the empirical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-13 Sachin Adlakha , Ramesh Johari

This paper studies mean field game (MFG) of controls by featuring the joint distribution of the state and the control with the reflected state process along an exogenous stochastic reflection boundary. We contribute to the literature with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Lijun Bo , Jingfei Wang , Xiang Yu

We introduce a mean field game for a family of filtering problems related to the classic sequential testing of the drift of a Brownian motion. To the best of our knowledge this work presents the first treatment of mean field filtering games…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Steven Campbell , Yuchong Zhang

Mean Field Games provide a powerful framework to analyze the dynamics of a large number of controlled objects in interaction. Though these models are much simpler than the underlying differential games they describe in some limit, their…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-15 Thibault Bonnemain , Thierry Gobron , Denis Ullmo

In this paper we study the long time behaviour of mean field games systems with fractional diffusion, modeling the case that the individual dynamics of the players is driven by independent jump processes and controlled through the drift…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Olav Ersland , Espen Robstad Jakobsen , Alessio Porretta

This paper establishes a primal-dual formulation for continuous-time mean field games (MFGs) and provides a complete analytical characterization of the set of all Nash equilibria (NEs). We first show that for any given mean field flow, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Xin Guo , Anran Hu , Jiacheng Zhang , Yufei Zhang

Recent techniques based on Mean Field Games (MFGs) allow the scalable analysis of multi-player games with many similar, rational agents. However, standard MFGs remain limited to homogeneous players that weakly influence each other, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Kai Cui , Gökçe Dayanıklı , Mathieu Laurière , Matthieu Geist , Olivier Pietquin , Heinz Koeppl