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This article is concerned with an optimal control problem derived by mean-field forward-backward stochastic differential equation with noisy observation, where the drift coefficients of the state equation and the observation equation are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-09 Guangchen Wang , Hua Xiao , Guojing Xing

In this paper, the finite horizon asymmetric information linear quadratic (LQ) control problem is investigated for a discrete-time mean field system. Different from previous works, multiple controllers with different information sets are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Qingyuan Qi , Zhiqiang Liu , Qianqian Zhang , Xinbei Lv

The mean-field game system is treated as an Euler Lagrange system corresponding to an optimal control problem governed by Fokker-Planck equation.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Viorel Barbu

The theory of mean field games aims at studying deterministic or stochastic differential games (Nash equilibria) as the number of agents tends to infinity. Since very few mean field games have explicit or semi-explicit solutions, numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Yves Achdou , Mathieu Laurière

We consider the problem of optimal control of a mean-field stochastic differential equation under model uncertainty. The model uncertainty is represented by ambiguity about the law $\mathcal{L}(X(t))$ of the state $X(t)$ at time $t$. For…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Nacira Agram , Bernt Øksendal

We discuss and compare two methods of investigations for the asymptotic regime of stochastic differential games with a finite number of players as the number of players tends to the infinity. These two methods differ in the order in which…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-23 Rene Carmona , Francois Delarue , Aime Lachapelle

We study Mean Field stochastic control problems where the cost function and the state dynamics depend upon the joint distribution of the controlled state and the control process. We prove suitable versions of the Pontryagin stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Beatrice Acciaio , Julio Backhoff-Veraguas , Rene Carmona

This paper studies a stochastic mean-field linear-quadratic optimal control problem with random coefficients. The state equation is a general linear stochastic differential equation with mean-field terms $\EE X(t)$ and $\EE u(t)$ of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Yanyan Tang , Jie Xiong

A typical approach to tackle stochastic control problems with partial observation is to separate the control and estimation tasks. However, it is well known that this separation generally fails to deliver an actual optimal solution for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Sébastien Lleo , Wolfgang J. Runggaldier

This paper outlines a novel extension of the classical Pontryagin minimum (maximum) principle to stochastic optimal control problems. Contrary to the well-known stochastic Pontryagin minimum principle involving forward-backward stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Manfred Opper , Sebastian Reich

We provide a thorough study of a general class of linear-quadratic extended mean field games and control problems in any dimensions where the mean field terms are allowed to be unbounded and there are also presence of cross terms in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Alain Bensoussan , Bohan Li , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

We consider interacting agent systems with a large number of stochastic agents (or particles) influenced by a fixed number of external stochastic lead agents. Such examples arise, for example in models of opinion dynamics, where a small…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Sebastian Zimper , Ana Djurdjevac , Carsten Hartmann , Christof Schütte , Nataša Djurdjevac Conrad

The large-population system consists of considerable small agents whose individual behavior and mass effect are interrelated via their state-average. The mean-field game provides an efficient way to get the decentralized strategies of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-25 Jianhui Huang , Shujun Wang

Motivated by recent interest in graphon mean field games and their applications, this paper provides a comprehensive probabilistic analysis of graphon mean field control (GMFC) problems, where the controlled dynamics are governed by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Zhongyuan Cao , Mathieu Laurière

We consider the stochastic optimal control problem of nonlinear mean-field systems in discrete time. We reformulate the problem into a deterministic control problem with marginal distribution as controlled state variable, and prove that…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Huyên Pham , Xiaoli Wei

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

Subject to reasonable conditions, in large population stochastic dynamics games, where the agents are coupled by the system's mean field (i.e. the state distribution of the generic agent) through their nonlinear dynamics and their nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Nevroz Sen , Peter E. Caines

We analyze a problem of optimal control of the Fokker-Planck equation with state constraints in the Wasserstein space of probability measures. Our main result is to derive optimality conditions in the form of a Mean Field Game system of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Samuel Daudin

Control problems with incomplete information and memory limitation appear in many practical situations. Although partially observable stochastic control (POSC) is a conventional theoretical framework that considers the optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Takehiro Tottori , Tetsuya J. Kobayashi

This paper is concerned with the open-loop time-consistent solution of time-inconsistent mean-field stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control. Different from standard stochastic linear-quadratic problems, both the system matrices and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-19 Yuan-Hua Ni , Ji-Feng Zhang , Miroslav Krstic