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The theory of mean field games studies the limiting behaviors of large systems where the agents interact with each other in a certain symmetric way. The running and terminal costs are critical for the agents to decide the strategies.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-05 Hongyu Liu , Chenchen Mou , Shen Zhang

Mean field game theory studies the behavior of a large number of interacting individuals in a game theoretic setting and has received a lot of attention in the past decade (Lasry and Lions, Japanese journal of mathematics, 2007). In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Martin Frank , Michael Herty , Torsten Trimborn

In this work, we consider a first order mean field games system with non-local couplings. A Lagrange-Galerkin scheme for the continuity equation, coupled with a semi-Lagrangian scheme for the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, is proposed to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-28 E Carlini , Francisco José Silva , Ahmad Zorkot

We consider mean field games with discrete state spaces (called discrete mean field games in the following) and we analyze these games in continuous and discrete time, over finite as well as infinite time horizons. We prove the existence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Josu Doncel , Nicolas Gast , Bruno Gaujal

This work deals with a numerical method for solving a mean-field type control problem with congestion. It is the continuation of an article by the same authors, in which suitably defined weak solutions of the system of partial differential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Yves Achdou , Mathieu Lauriere

Recent work linking deep neural networks and dynamical systems opened up new avenues to analyze deep learning. In particular, it is observed that new insights can be obtained by recasting deep learning as an optimal control problem on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Weinan E , Jiequn Han , Qianxiao Li

We introduce a system of self-propelled agents (active Brownian particles) with velocity alignment in two spatial dimensions and derive a mean-field theory from the microscopic dynamics via a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation and a moment…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-26 Pawel Romanczuk , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

We study Mean Field stochastic control problems where the cost function and the state dynamics depend upon the joint distribution of the controlled state and the control process. We prove suitable versions of the Pontryagin stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Beatrice Acciaio , Julio Backhoff-Veraguas , Rene Carmona

First order kinetic mean field games formally describe the Nash equilibria of deterministic differential games where agents control their acceleration, asymptotically in the limit as the number of agents tends to infinity. The known results…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Megan Griffin-Pickering , Alpár R. Mészáros

We provide an abstract framework for submodular mean field games and identify verifiable sufficient conditions that allow to prove existence and approximation of strong mean field equilibria in models where data may not be continuous with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-21 Jodi Dianetti , Giorgio Ferrari , Markus Fischer , Max Nendel

In this paper, we investigate the existence and uniqueness of solutions to a stationary mean field game model introduced by J.-M. Lasry and P.-L. Lions. This model features a quadratic Hamiltonian with possibly singular congestion effects.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-01 Diogo A. Gomes , Hiroyoshi Mitake

Agents attempt to maximize expected profits earned by selling multiple units of a perishable product where their revenue streams are affected by the prices they quote as well as the distribution of other prices quoted in the market by other…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2025-04-16 Ryan Donnelly , Zi Li

Mean field games (MFGs) offer a powerful framework for modeling large-scale multi-agent systems. This paper addresses MFGs formulated in continuous time with discrete state spaces, where agents' dynamics are governed by continuous-time…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Yannick Eich , Christian Fabian , Kai Cui , Heinz Koeppl

We study first order evolutive Mean Field Games where the Hamiltonian is non-coercive. This situation occurs, for instance, when some directions are "forbidden" to the generic player at some points. We establish the existence of a weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Paola Mannucci , Claudio Marchi , Carlo Mariconda , Nicoletta Tchou

This paper is concerned with a class of linear-quadratic stochastic large-population problems with partial information, where the individual agent only has access to a noisy observation process related to the state. The dynamics of each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Min Li , Na Li , Zhen Wu

This article contributes to a framework for a computational indirect method based on the Pontryagin maximum principle to efficiently solve a class of state constrained time-optimal control problems in the presence of a time-dependent flow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Roman Chertovskih , Nathalie T. Khalil , Fernando Lobo Pereira

We consider the interaction among agents engaging in a driving task and we model it as general-sum game. This class of games exhibits a plurality of different equilibria posing the issue of equilibrium selection. While selecting the most…

We construct a semi-Lagrangian scheme for first-order, time-dependent, and non-local Mean Field Games. The convergence of the scheme to a weak solution of the system is analyzed by exploiting a key monotonicity property. To solve the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Elisabetta Carlini , Valentina Coscetti

We consider minimization problems for curves of measure, with kinetic and potential energy and a congestion penalization, as in the functionals that appear in Mean Field Games with a variational structure. We prove L infinity regularity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Hugo Lavenant , Filippo Santambrogio

We analyze the behavior of a large number of strategic drivers traveling over an urban traffic network using the mean-field game framework. We assume an incentive mechanism for congestion mitigation under which each driver selecting a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Takashi Tanaka , Ehsan Nekouei , Karl Henrik Johansson