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This paper studies a class of mean-field control (MFC) problems with singular controls under general dynamic state-control-law constraints. We first propose a customized relaxed control formulation to cope with the dynamic mixed constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Lijun Bo , Jingfei Wang , Xiang Yu

In this paper, we consider a class of linear quadratic extended mean field games (MFGs) with common noises where the state coefficients and the cost functional vary with the mean field term in a nonlinear way. Based on stochastic maximum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Tianjiao Hua , Peng Luo

We study the well-posedness of a system of forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) corresponding to a degenerate mean field type control problem, when the diffusion coefficient depends on the state together with its…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-16 Alain Bensoussan , Ziyu Huang , Shanjian Tang , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

We introduce the deep multi-FBSDE method for robust approximation of coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs), focusing on cases where the deep BSDE method of Han, Jentzen, and E (2018) fails to converge. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Kristoffer Andersson , Adam Andersson , Cornelis W. Oosterlee

We analyze linear McKean-Vlasov forward-backward SDEs arising in leader-follower games with mean-field type control and terminal state constraints on the state process. We establish an existence and uniqueness of solutions result for such…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-09-13 Guanxing Fu , Ulrich Horst

Classical neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are powerful tools for approximating the log-density functions in high-dimensional spaces along trajectories, where neural networks parameterize the velocity fields. This paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Mo Zhou , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

In Liang et al (2009), the current authors demonstrated that BSDEs can be reformulated as functional differential equations, and as an application, they solved BSDEs on general filtered probability spaces. In this paper the authors continue…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-11-22 G. Liang , T. Lyons , Z. Qian

While the general theory for the terminal-initial value problem for mean-field games (MFGs) has achieved a substantial progress, the corresponding forward-forward problem is still poorly understood - even in the one-dimensional setting.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-30 Diogo Gomes , Levon Nurbekyan , Marc Sedjro

Mean field control (MFC) problems have been introduced to study social optima in very large populations of strategic agents. The main idea is to consider an infinite population and to simplify the analysis by using a mean field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Sebastian Baudelet , Brieuc Frénais , Mathieu Laurière , Amal Machtalay , Yuchen Zhu

Recently, the deep learning method has been used for solving forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) and parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs). It has good accuracy and performance for high-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Shaolin Ji , Shige Peng , Ying Peng , Xichuan Zhang

We introduce a new class of numerical methods for solving McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations, which are relevant in the context of distribution-dependent or mean-field models, under super-linear growth conditions for both the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Jiamin Jian , Qingshuo Song , Xiaojie Wang , Zhongqiang Zhang , Yuying Zhao

Novel multi-step predictor-corrector numerical schemes have been derived for approximating decoupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). The stability and high order rate of convergence of the schemes are rigorously…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Qiang Han , Shaolin Ji

Non-cooperative and cooperative games with a very large number of players have many applications but remain generally intractable when the number of players increases. Introduced by Lasry and Lions, and Huang, Caines and Malham\'e, Mean…

The Mean-Field Schrodinger Bridge (MFSB) problem is an optimization problem aiming to find the minimum effort control policy to drive a McKean-Vlassov stochastic differential equation from one probability measure to another. In the context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 George Rapakoulias , Ali Reza Pedram , Panagiotis Tsiotras

In this paper, we study a functional fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). Under a new type of integral Lipschitz and monotonicity conditions, the existence and uniqueness of solutions for functional…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-30 Shaolin Ji , Shuzhen Yang

This is one of our series papers on multistep schemes for solving forward backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) and related problems. Here we extend (with non-trivial updates) our multistep schemes in [W. Zhao, Y. Fu and T.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-12 Kong Tao , Weidong Zhao , Tao Zhou

This article introduces and solves a general class of fully coupled forward-backward stochastic dynamics by investigating the associated system of functional differential equations. As a consequence, we are able to solve many different…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Matteo Casserini , Gechun Liang

This paper introduces a new method based on Deep Galerkin Methods (DGMs) for solving high-dimensional stochastic Mean Field Games (MFGs). We achieve this by using two neural networks to approximate the unknown solutions of the MFG system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Mouhcine Assouli , Badr Missaoui

This paper is concerned with stochastic differential games (SDGs) defined through fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) which are governed by Brownian motion and Poisson random measure. For SDGs, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-06 Juan Li , Qingmeng Wei

The formulation of Mean Field Games (MFG) typically requires continuous differentiability of the Hamiltonian in order to determine the advective term in the Kolmogorov--Fokker--Planck equation for the density of players. However, in many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Yohance A. P. Osborne , Iain Smears