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We argue that Hamilton-Jacobi equations provide a convenient and intuitive approach for studying the large-scale behavior of mean-field disordered systems. This point of view is illustrated on the problem of inference of a rank-one matrix.…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Jean-Christophe Mourrat

This paper presents the design and analysis of a Hybrid High-Order (HHO) approximation for a distributed optimal control problem governed by the Poisson equation. We propose three distinct schemes to address unconstrained control problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Gouranga Mallik , Ramesh Chandra Sau

We establish a well-posedness and error-estimation framework that solves Hamilton-Jacobi equations by minimizing the least-squares residual of monotone finite-difference discretizations. This approach also applies naturally to second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Olivier Bokanowski , Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Richard Tsai

We consider the following evolutionary Hamilton-Jacobi equation with initial condition: \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \partial_tu(x,t)+H(x,u(x,t),\partial_xu(x,t))=0,\\ u(x,0)=\phi(x), \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $\phi(x)\in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-19 Lin Wang , Jun Yan

We provide an approximation scheme for first-order stationary mean field games with a separable Hamiltonian. First, we discretize Hamilton-Jacobi equations by discretizing in time, and then prove the existence of minimizing holonomic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Renato Iturriaga , Kaizhi Wang

We study a mean field planning problem in which the initial density is a Dirac mass. We show that there exists a unique solution which converges to a self-similar profile as time tends to $0$. We proceed by studying a continuous rescaling…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Sebastian Munoz , Alessio Porretta

We introduce the proximal optimal transport divergence, a novel discrepancy measure that interpolates between information divergences and optimal transport distances via an infimal convolution formulation. This divergence provides a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Ricardo Baptista , Panagiota Birmpa , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Luc Rey-Bellet , Benjamin J. Zhang

We study a class of parabolic equations having first order terms with superlinear (and subquadratic) growth. The model problem is the so-called viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation with superlinear Hamiltonian. We address the problem of having…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Martina Magliocca , Alessio Porretta

Quasi-stationary Mean Field Games models consider agents who base their strategies on current information without forecasting future states. In this paper we address the first-order quasi-stationary Mean Field Games system, which involves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Fabio Camilli , Claudio Marchi , Cristian Mendico

We study high-dimensional stochastic optimal control problems in which many agents cooperate to minimize a convex cost functional. We consider both the full-information problem, in which each agent observes the states of all other agents,…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Joe Jackson , Daniel Lacker

We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the fully nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi equation $H(x, Du, \lambda u) = 0$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ as $\lambda \to 0^+$. Under the assumption that the Aubry set is localized, we employ a variational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Son N. T. Tu , Jianlu Zhang

We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the constrained MFG system as the time horizon $T$ goes to infinity. For this purpose, we analyze first Hamilton-Jacobi equations with state constraints from the viewpoint of weak KAM theory,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Piermarco Cannarsa , Wei Cheng , Cristian Mendico , Kaizhi Wang

We prove the global-in-time well-posedness for a broad class of mean field game problems, which is beyond the special linear-quadratic setting, as long as the mean field sensitivity is not too large. Through the stochastic maximum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Alain Bensoussan , Ho Man Tai , Tak Kwong Wong , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

Mean-field games (MFGs) are models for large populations of competing rational agents that seek to optimize a suitable functional. In the case of congestion, this functional takes into account the difficulty of moving in high-density areas.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-05 David Evangelista , Rita Ferreira , Diogo A. Gomes , Levon Nurbekyan , Vardan Voskanyan

We present a generalization of the variational principle that is compatible with any Hamiltonian eigenstate that can be specified uniquely by a list of properties. This variational principle appears to be compatible with a wide range of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-02-07 Jacqueline A. R. Shea , Elise Gwin , Eric Neuscamman

An optimal randomized strategy for design of balanced, normalized mass transport plans is developed. It replaces -- but specializes to -- the deterministic, regularized optimal transport (OT) strategy, which yields only a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-08 Sarah Boufelja Y. , Anthony Quinn , Robert Shorten

An adaptive, adversarial methodology is developed for the optimal transport problem between two distributions $\mu$ and $\nu$, known only through a finite set of independent samples $(x_i)_{i=1..N}$ and $(y_j)_{j=1..M}$. The methodology…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Montacer Essid , Debra Laefer , Esteban G. Tabak

We analyze some systems of partial differential equations arising in the theory of mean field type control with congestion effects. We look for weak solutions. Our main result is the existence and uniqueness of suitably defined weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Yves Achdou , Mathieu Lauriere

This paper is devoted to finite horizon deterministic mean field games in which the state space is a network. The agents control their velocity, and when they occupy a vertex, they can enter into any incident edge. The running and terminal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Yves Achdou , Paola Mannucci , Claudio Marchi , Nicoletta Tchou

In this paper, training a neural network is identified, exactly, as a search through Hamilton--Jacobi initial-value problems: each gradient step selects the initial data of a viscous Hamilton--Jacobi equation whose Hopf--Cole propagator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jose Marie Antonio Miñoza , Erika Fille T. Legara , Christopher P. Monterola