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In this paper, we study the long-time behavior of mean field game (MFG) systems influenced by a common noise. While classical results establish the convergence of deterministic MFG towards stationary solutions under suitable monotonicity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Raphaël Maillet , Wenbin Yan

Mean field games models describing the limit of a large class of stochastic differential games, as the number of players goes to $+\infty$, have been introduced by J.-M. Lasry and P.-L. Lions. We use a change of variables to transform the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-17 Olivier Guéant

We present a simulation-based approach for solution of mean field games (MFGs), using the framework of empirical game-theoretical analysis (EGTA). Our primary method employs a version of the double oracle, iteratively adding strategies…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Yongzhao Wang , Michael P. Wellman

Mean field type games (MFTGs) describe Nash equilibria between large coalitions: each coalition consists of a continuum of cooperative agents who maximize the average reward of their coalition while interacting non-cooperatively with a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Kai Shao , Jiacheng Shen , Mathieu Laurière

In this article we study the well-posedness of the Master Equation of Mean Field Games in a framework of Neumann boundary condition. The definition of solution is closely related to the classical one of the Mean Field Games system, but the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Michele Ricciardi

Mean Field Games (MFGs) can potentially scale multi-agent systems to extremely large populations of agents. Yet, most of the literature assumes a single initial distribution for the agents, which limits the practical applications of MFGs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sarah Perrin , Mathieu Laurière , Julien Pérolat , Romuald Élie , Matthieu Geist , Olivier Pietquin

In this note, we develop Fourier approximation methods for the solutions of first-order nonlocal mean-field games (MFG) systems. Using Fourier expansion techniques, we approximate a given MFG system by a simpler one that is equivalent to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-21 Levon Nurbekyan , Joao Saude

We present examples of equations arising in the theory of mean field games that can be reduced to a system in smaller dimensions. Such examples come up in certain applications, and they can be used as modeling tools to numerically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Jean-Michel Lasry , Pierre-Louis Lions , Benjamin Seeger

Here, we establish the existence of weak solutions to a wide class of time-dependent monotone mean-field games (MFGs). These MFGs are given as a system of degenerate parabolic equations with initial and terminal conditions. To construct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Rita Ferreira , Diogo Gomes , Teruo Tada

We introduce a notion of weak solution of the master equation without idiosyncratic noise in Mean Field Game theory and establish its existence, uniqueness up to a constant and consistency with classical solutions when it is smooth. We work…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Panagiotis Souganidis

In this paper, we propose and study an inverse boundary problem for the mean field games (MFGs) governed by the first-order master equation in a bounded domain. We establish the unique identifiability result by showing that the running cost…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Hongyu Liu , Shen Zhang

This paper concerns the simultaneous effect of homogenization and of the small noise limit for a $2^{\textrm {nd}}$ order mean field games (MFG) system with local coupling and quadratic Hamiltonian. We show under some additional assumptions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Annalisa Cesaroni , Nicolas Dirr , Claudio Marchi

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

In this manuscript, we propose a structural condition on non-separable Hamiltonians, which we term displacement monotonicity condition, to study second order mean field games master equations. A rate of dissipation of a bilinear form is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-04 Wilfrid Gangbo , Alpár R. Mészáros , Chenchen Mou , Jianfeng Zhang

In this paper, we study two kinds of inverse problems for Mean Field Games (MFGs) with common noise. Our focus is on MFGs described by a coupled system of stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman and Fokker-Planck equations. Firstly, we establish…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Qi Lü , Zhonghua Liao

We study a Mean Field Games (MFG) system in a real, separable infinite dimensional Hilbert space. The system consists of a second order parabolic type equation, called Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation in the paper, coupled with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Salvatore Federico , Fausto Gozzi , Andrzej Święch

In this paper we study second order master equations arising from mean field games with common noise over arbitrary time duration. A classical solution typically requires the monotonicity condition (or small time duration) and sufficiently…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Chenchen Mou , Jianfeng Zhang

This paper considers mean field games with optimal stopping time (OSMFGs) where agents make optimal exit decisions, the coupled obstacle and Fokker-Planck equations in such models pose challenges versus classic MFGs. This paper proposes a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Chengfeng Shen , Yifan Luo , Zhennan Zhou

In this article, we study the global-in-time well-posedness of second order mean field games (MFGs) with both nonlinear drift functions simultaneously depending on the state, distribution and control variables, and the diffusion term…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Alain Bensoussan , Ziyu Huang , Shanjian Tang , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

Existing deep learning methods for solving mean-field games (MFGs) with common noise fix the sampling common noise paths and then solve the corresponding MFGs. This leads to a nested-loop structure with millions of simulations of common…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Ming Min , Ruimeng Hu