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This paper studies uniform stabilization and social optimality for linear quadratic (LQ) mean field control problems with multiplicative noise, where agents are coupled via dynamics and individual costs. The state and control weights in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Bingchang Wang , Huanshui Zhang

Linear quadratic graphon field games (LQ-GFGs) are defined to be LQ games which involve a large number of agents that are weakly coupled via a weighted undirected graph on which each node represents an agent. The links of the graph…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-24 Shuang Gao , Rinel Foguen Tchuendom , Peter E. Caines

This paper is concerned with two-person mean-field linear-quadratic non-zero sum stochastic differential games in an infinite horizon. Both open-loop and closed-loop Nash equilibria are introduced. Existence of an open-loop Nash equilibrium…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Xun Li , Jingtao Shi , Jiongmin Yong

This paper focuses on linear-quadratic (LQ for short) mean-field games described by forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs for short), in which the individual control region is postulated to be convex. The decentralized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Liangquan Zhang , Xun Li

In this paper we study a class of matrix-valued linear-quadratic mean-field-type games for both the risk-neutral, risk-sensitive and robust cases. Non-cooperation, full cooperation and adversarial between teams are treated. We provide a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Julian Barreiro-Gomez , Tyrone E. Duncan , Hamidou Tembine

This paper studies a stochastic mean-field linear-quadratic Stackelberg differential game with random coefficients. The interaction between mean-field terms and random coefficients precludes the direct use of conventional decoupling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Ying Yang , Jie Xiong , Zhouyu Wang

In this manuscript, we study a class of linear-quadratic (LQ) mean field control problems with a common noise and their corresponding $N$-particle systems. The mean field control problems considered are not standard LQ mean field control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Mengzhen Li , Chenchen Mou , Zhen Wu , Chao Zhou

In this paper, we address an instance of uniquely solvable mean-field game with a common noise whose corresponding counterpart without common noise has several equilibria. We study the selection problem for this mean-field game without…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-29 François Delarue , Rinel Foguen Tchuendom

We consider a controlled linear-quadratic (LQ) large-population system with mixture of three types agents: major leader, minor leaders and minor followers. The Stackelberg-Nash-Cournot (SNC) approximate equilibrium is studied by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Kehan Si , James Huang , Zhen Wu

We develop the linear programming approach to mean-field games in a general setting. This relaxed control approach allows to prove existence results under weak assumptions, and lends itself well to numerical implementation. We consider…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Roxana Dumitrescu , Marcos Leutscher , Peter Tankov

We present a linear--quadratic Stackelberg game with a large number of followers and we also derive the mean field limit of infinitely many followers. The relation between optimization and mean-field limit is studied and conditions for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-09 Michael Herty , Sonja Steffensen , Anna Thünen

This paper establishes a data-driven solution for infinite horizon linear quadratic Gaussian Mean Field Games with network-coupled heterogeneous agent populations where the dynamics of the agents are unknown. The solution technique relies…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Jean Zhu , Shuang Gao

In this paper, we investigate a class of nonzero-sum dynamic stochastic games, where players have linear dynamics and quadratic cost functions. The players are coupled in both dynamics and cost through a linear regression (weighted average)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Jalal Arabneydi , Amir G. Aghdam , Roland P. Malhamé

In this paper, we characterize the asymptotic behavior of a first-order stationary mean-field game (MFG) with a logarithm coupling, a quadratic Hamiltonian, and a periodically oscillating potential. This study falls into the realm of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-07 Rita Ferreira , Diogo Gomes , Xianjin Yang

We present a Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm to solve infinite horizon asymptotic Mean Field Game (MFG) and Mean Field Control (MFC) problems. Our approach can be described as a unified two-timescale Mean Field Q-learning: The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Andrea Angiuli , Jean-Pierre Fouque , Mathieu Laurière

This paper is concerned with a kind of linear-quadratic (LQ, for short) two-person zero-sum stochastic differential game problems with partial observation. We propose the notions of explicit and implicit feedback laws under partial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Zhiyong Yu , Wanying Yue

In this paper we consider symmetric games where a large number of players can be in any one of d states. We derive a limiting mean field model and characterize its main properties. This mean field limit is a system of coupled ordinary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-23 Diogo A. Gomes , Joana Mohr , Rafael R. Souza

This paper studies the limits of empirical means of open-loop Nash equilibria of linear-quadratic stochastic differential games as the number of players goes to infinity, when the corresponding mean field game is of potential type and may…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Alekos Cecchin , Jodi Dianetti

This paper studies social optima and Nash games for mean field linear quadratic control systems, where subsystems are coupled via dynamics and individual costs. For the social control problem, we first obtain a set of forward-backward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-17 Bingchang Wang , Huanshui Zhang

This paper introduces a notion of weak solution for the coupled system of master equations in mean field games with a major player. It extends the previously introduced notion of Lipschitz solutions in mean field games. By relying on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Charles Meynard