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An iterative finite difference scheme for mean field games (MFGs) is proposed. The target MFGs are derived from control problems for multidimensional systems with advection terms. For such MFGs, linearization using the Cole-Hopf…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Daisuke Inoue , Yuji Ito , Takahito Kashiwabara , Norikazu Saito , Hiroaki Yoshida

We propose some multigrid methods for solving the algebraic systems resulting from finite element approximations of space fractional partial differential equations (SFPDEs). It is shown that our multigrid methods are optimal, which means…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Yingjun Jiang , Xuejun Xu

This paper addresses a class of two-person zero-sum stochastic differential equations, which encompass Markov chains and fractional Brownian motion, and satisfy some monotonicity conditions over an infinite time horizon. Within the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Chang Liu , Hongtao Fan , Yajing Li

McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations (MVSDEs) describe systems whose dynamics depend on both individual states and the population distribution, and they arise widely in neuroscience, finance, and epidemiology. In many…

Computation · Statistics 2026-01-21 Ning Ning , Amin Wu

In [5] the authors obtained Mean-Field backward stochastic differential equations (BSDE) associated with a Mean-field stochastic differential equation (SDE) in a natural way as limit of some highly dimensional system of forward and backward…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-11-21 Rainer Buckdahn , Juan Li , Shige Peng

We propose and study several inverse problems for the mean field games (MFG) system in a bounded domain. Our focus is on simultaneously recovering the running cost and the Hamiltonian within the MFG system by the associated boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Hongyu Liu , Shen Zhang

In this article, from the viewpoint of control theory, we discuss the relationships among the commonly used monotonicity conditions that ensure the well-posedness of the solutions arising from problems of mean field games (MFGs) and mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Alain Bensoussan , Ziyu Huang , Shanjian Tang , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

We extend the methods from Nurbekyan, Saude "Fourier approximation methods for first-order nonlocal mean-field games" [Port. Math. 75 (2018), no. 3-4] and Liu, Jacobs, Li, Nurbekyan, Osher "Computational methods for nonlocal mean field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Siting Liu , Levon Nurbekyan

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

Mean-field SDEs, also known as McKean-Vlasov equations, are stochastic differential equations where the drift and diffusion depend on the current distribution in addition to the current position. We describe an efficient numerical method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-25 Peter Kloeden , Tony Shardlow

Motivated by the idea of imposing paralleling computing on solving stochastic differential equations (SDEs), we introduce a new Domain Decomposition Scheme to solve forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) parallely. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-08-03 Minh-Binh Tran

We develop a splitting method to prove the well-posedness, in short time, of solutions for two master equations in mean field game (MFG) theory: the second order master equation, describing MFGs with a common noise, and the system of master…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Marco Cirant , Alessio Porretta

We analyze a market impact game between $n$ risk averse agents who compete for liquidity in a market impact model with permanent price impact and additional slippage. Most market parameters, including volatility and drift, are allowed to…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2020-01-06 Samuel Drapeau , Peng Luo , Alexander Schied , Dewen Xiong

We consider a multi-player stochastic differential game with linear McKean-Vlasov dynamics and quadratic cost functional depending on the variance and mean of the state and control actions of the players in open-loop form. Finite and…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Enzo Miller , Huyen Pham

Neural network-based methods are effective for solving equilibria in Mean-Field Games (MFGs), particularly in high-dimensional settings. However, solving the coupled partial differential equations (PDEs) in MFGs limits their applicability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Jinwei Liu , Wang Yao , Xiao Zhang

In this paper, we study a kind of optimal control problem for forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs for short) of McKean--Vlasov type via the dynamic programming principle (DPP for short) motivated by studying the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Liangquan Zhang

We investigate the global numerical approximation of a class of extended mean field control problems (MFC), where the dynamics and costs depend on the joint distribution of the state and the control. We propose a framework to approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Athena Picarelli , Marco Scaratti , Jonathan Tam

We formulate the MFG limit for $N$ interacting agents with a common noise as a single quasi-linear deterministic infinite-dimensional partial differential second order backward equation. We prove that any its (regular enough) solution…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Vassili Kolokoltsov , Marianna Troeva

Two novel numerical estimators are proposed for solving forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) appearing in the Feynman-Kac representation of the value function in stochastic optimal control problems. In contrast to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Kelsey P. Hawkins , Ali Pakniyat , Panagiotis Tsiotras

This paper builds on the work of Degond, Herty and Liu by considering N-player stochastic differential games. The control corresponding to a Nash equilibrium of such a game is approximated through model predictive control (MPC) techniques.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Matt Barker