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We establish global well-posedness and convergence of the score-based generative models (SGM) under minimal general assumptions of initial data for score estimation. For the smooth case, we start from a Lipschitz bound of the score function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Connor Mooney , Zhongjian Wang , Jack Xin , Yifeng Yu

The Lipschitz constant of the map between the input and output space represented by a neural network is a natural metric for assessing the robustness of the model. We present a new method to constrain the Lipschitz constant of dense deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Ouail Kitouni , Niklas Nolte , Mike Williams

Recent extensions to dynamic games of the well-known fictitious play learning procedure in static games were proved to globally converge to stationary Nash equilibria in two important classes of dynamic games (zero-sum and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Lucas Baudin , Rida Laraki

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 study the Cauchy problem for the three-dimensional isentropic compressible ideal (inviscid and non-resistive) magnetohydrodynamic equations with velocity damping on the periodic torus $\mathbb{T}^3$. The system admits a steady…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Liening Qiao , Jiahong Wu , Fuyi Xu , Xiaoping Zhai

Second-order formulations of the 3+1 Einstein equations obtained by eliminating the extrinsic curvature in terms of the time derivative of the metric are examined with the aim of establishing whether they are well posed, in cases of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Simonetta Frittelli

We consider the Cauchy problem to the 3D barotropic compressible Navier-Stokes equation. We prove global well-posedness, assuming that the initial data $(\rho_0-1,u_0)$ has small norms in the critical Besov space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Zihua Guo , Zihao Song , Minghua Yang

Zero-sum games arise in a wide variety of problems, including robust optimization and adversarial learning. However, algorithms deployed for finding a local Nash equilibrium in these games often converge to non-Nash stationary points. This…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kushagra Gupta , Xinjie Liu , Ross Allen , Ufuk Topcu , David Fridovich-Keil

We prove probabilistic well-posedness for a 2D viscous nonlinear wave equation modeling fluid-structure interaction between a 3D incompressible, viscous Stokes flow and nonlinear elastodynamics of a 2D stretched membrane. The focus is on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Jeffrey Kuan , Tadahiro Oh , Sunčica Čanić

In this paper, we investigate the well-posedness of the martingale problem associated to non-linear stochastic differential equations (SDEs) in the sense of McKean-Vlasov under mild assumptions on the coefficients as well as classical…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-04-23 Paul-Eric Chaudru de Raynal , Noufel Frikha

In this paper, we propose a second-order extension of the continuous-time game-theoretic mirror descent (MD) dynamics, referred to as MD2, which provably converges to mere (but not necessarily strict) variationally stable states (VSS)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Bolin Gao , Lacra Pavel

Well-posedness and uniform-in-time boundedness of classical solutions are investigated for a three-component parabolic system which describes the dynamics of a population of cells interacting with a chemoattractant and a nutrient. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Jie Jiang , Philippe Laurençot , Yanyan Zhang

Today's multiagent systems have grown too complex to rely on centralized controllers, prompting increasing interest in the design of distributed algorithms. In this respect, game theory has emerged as a valuable tool to complement more…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Rahul Chandan , Dario Paccagnan , Jason R. Marden

We study dynamic finite-player and mean-field stochastic games within the framework of Markov perfect equilibria (MPE). Our focus is on discrete time and space structures without monotonicity. Unlike their continuous-time analogues,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Felix Höfer , H. Mete Soner , Atilla Yılmaz

In this paper we provide the existence of classical solutions to stationary mean field game systems in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^N$, with coercive potential and aggregating local coupling, under general conditions on the Hamiltonian. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Annalisa Cesaroni , Marco Cirant

A recent technique of randomized smoothing has shown that the worst-case (adversarial) $\ell_2$-robustness can be transformed into the average-case Gaussian-robustness by "smoothing" a classifier, i.e., by considering the averaged…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Jongheon Jeong , Jinwoo Shin

This manuscript constructs global in time solutions to the $master\ equations$ for potential Mean Field Games. The study concerns a class of Lagrangians and initial data functions, which are $displacement\ convex$ and so, it may be in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Wilfrid Gangbo , Alpár R. Mészáros

We formulate a mean field game where each player stops a privately observed Brownian motion with absorption. Players are ranked according to their level of stopping and rewarded as a function of their relative rank. There is a unique mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Marcel Nutz , Yuchong Zhang

We investigate a class of scalar conservation laws on manifolds driven by multiplicative Gaussian (Ito) noise. The Cauchy problem defined on a Riemannian manifold is shown to be well-posed. We prove existence of generalized kinetic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-28 Luca Galimberti , Kenneth H. Karlsen

We study mean field games for large non--exchangeable populations with moderate local interactions and common noise. The finite--player system is driven by two complementary interaction mechanisms : a graphon--type structure, which encodes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Mao Fabrice Djete