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A cellular automaton model is presented for random walkers with biologically motivated interactions favoring local alignment and leading to collective motion or swarming behavior. The degree of alignment is controlled by a sensitivity…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 H. J. Bussemaker , A. Deutsch , E. Geigant

Mean-field games have been used as a theoretical tool to obtain an approximate Nash equilibrium for symmetric and anonymous $N$-player games. However, limiting applicability, existing theoretical results assume variations of a "population…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Batuhan Yardim , Semih Cayci , Matthieu Geist , Niao He

We study a family of mean field games arising in modeling the behavior of strategic economic agents which move across space maximizing their utility from consumption and have the possibility to accumulate resources for production (such as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Daria Ghilli , Fausto Gozzi , Giovanni Zanco

Mean Field Games (MFG) theory describes strategic interactions in differential games with a large number of small and indistinguishable players. Traditionally, the players' control impacts only the drift term in the system's dynamics,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Vincenzo Ignazio , Michele Ricciardi

This work tackles the problem of energy-efficient distributed power control in wireless networks with a large number of transmitters. The problem is modeled by a dynamic game. Each transmitter-receiver communication is characterized by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-30 François Mériaux , Vineeth Varma , Samson Lasaulce

In this paper, we present a framework for multi-agent learning in a nonstationary dynamic network environment. More specifically, we examine projected gradient play in smooth monotone repeated network games in which the agents'…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Feras Al Taha , Kiran Rokade , Francesca Parise

This paper aims to systematically solve stochastic team optimization of large-scale system, in a rather general framework. Concretely, the underlying large-scale system involves considerable weakly-coupled cooperative agents for which the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Xinwei Feng , Ying Hu , Jianhui Huang

Mathematical models for systems of interacting agents using simple local rules have been proposed and shown to exhibit emergent swarming behavior. Most of these models are constructed by intuition or manual observations of real phenomena,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-04 Graciano Dieck Kattas , Xiao-ke Xu , Michael Small

Macroeconomic outcomes emerge from individuals' decisions, making it essential to model how agents interact with macro policy via consumption, investment, and labor choices. We formulate this as a dynamic Stackelberg game: the government…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-06-03 Qirui Mi , Zhiyu Zhao , Chengdong Ma , Siyu Xia , Yan Song , Mengyue Yang , Jun Wang , Haifeng Zhang

As a step towards studying human-agent collectives we conduct an online game with human participants cooperating on a network. The game is presented in the context of achieving group formation through local coordination. The players set…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-07-11 Kunal Bhattacharya , Tuomas Takko , Daniel Monsivais , Kimmo Kaski

The mean field games (MFG) paradigm was introduced to provide tractable approximations of games involving very large populations. The theory typically rests on two key assumptions: homogeneity, meaning that all players share the same…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Mathieu Laurière

We address the problem to control a population of noncooperative heterogeneous agents, each with convex cost function depending on the average population state, and all sharing a convex constraint, towards an aggregative equilibrium. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Sergio Grammatico

We initiate the study of game dynamics in the population protocol model: $n$ agents each maintain a current local strategy and interact in pairs uniformly at random. Upon each interaction, the agents play a two-person game and receive a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Dan Alistarh , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Mehrdad Karrabi , John Lazarsfeld

We introduce a class of robust control problems formulated in min-max form, in which the principal agent is viewed as a central planner facing Nature. The agent's cost is a nonlinear function of all its possible realizations, encompassing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-24 François Delarue , Pierre Lavigne

We study mean field games and corresponding $N$-player games in continuous time over a finite time horizon where the position of each agent belongs to a finite state space. As opposed to previous works on finite state mean field games, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Alekos Cecchin , Markus Fischer

The large-population system consists of considerable small agents whose individual behavior and mass effect are interrelated via their state-average. The mean-field game provides an efficient way to get the decentralized strategies of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-25 Jianhui Huang , Shujun Wang

The mean-field dynamics of a collection of stochastic agents with local versus nonlocal interactions is studied via analytically soluble models. The nonlocal interactions result from a barycentric modulation of the observation range of the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-06-01 Max-Olivier Hongler , Roger Filliger , Olivier Gallay

Mean-field reinforcement learning (MF-RL) scales multi-agent RL to large populations by reducing each agent's dependence on others to a single summary statistic -- the mean action. However, this reduction requires every agent to act at…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Shan Yang

In this work, we study a class of stationary mean-field games of singular stochastic control under model uncertainty. The representative agent adjusts the dynamics of an It\^o diffusion via one-sided singular stochastic control, aiming to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Giorgio Ferrari , Ioannis Tzouanas

Controlling large particle systems in collective dynamics by a few agents is a subject of high practical importance, e.g., in evacuation dynamics. In this paper we study an instantaneous control approach to steer an interacting particle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Martin Burger , Rene Pinnau , Claudia Totzeck , Oliver Tse , Andreas Roth