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In a game theoretic framework, we study energy markets with a continuum of homogenous producers who produce energy from an exhaustible resource such as oil. Each producer simultaneously optimizes production rate that drives her revenues, as…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2017-10-17 Michael Ludkovski , Xuwei Yang

In this paper, we consider a class of linear quadratic extended mean field games (MFGs) with common noises where the state coefficients and the cost functional vary with the mean field term in a nonlinear way. Based on stochastic maximum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Tianjiao Hua , Peng Luo

The purpose of this note is to provide an existence result for the solution of fully coupled Forward Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (FBSDEs) of the mean field type. These equations occur in the study of mean field games and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-11-20 Rene Carmona , Francois Delarue

We develop a convex analysis approach for solving LQG optimal control problems and apply it to major-minor (MM) LQG mean-field game (MFG) systems. The approach retrieves the best response strategies for the major agent and all minor agents…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Dena Firoozi , Sebastian Jaimungal , Peter E. Caines

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

A general class of mean field games are considered where the governing dynamics are controlled diffusions in $\mathbb{R}^d$. The optimization criterion is the long time average of a running cost function. Under various sets of hypotheses,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Ari Arapostathis , Anup Biswas , Johnson Carroll

We consider mean field games with discrete state spaces (called discrete mean field games in the following) and we analyze these games in continuous and discrete time, over finite as well as infinite time horizons. We prove the existence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Josu Doncel , Nicolas Gast , Bruno Gaujal

We investigate mean field game systems under invariance conditions for the state space, otherwise called {\it viability conditions} for the controlled dynamics. First we analyze separately the Hamilton-Jacobi and the Fokker-Planck…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Alessio Porretta , Michele Ricciardi

Mean Field Game is a rather new field initially developed in applied mathematics and engineering in order to deal with the dynamics of a large number of controlled agents or objects in interaction. For a large class of these models, there…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-25 Thibault Bonnemain , Thierry Gobron , Denis Ullmo

This paper proposes a new mathematical paradigm to analyze discrete-time mean-field games. It is shown that finding Nash equilibrium solutions for a general class of discrete-time mean-field games is equivalent to solving an optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Xin Guo , Anran Hu , Junzi Zhang

This paper revisits well-studied dynamic decisions of weakly coupled large-population (LP) systems. Specifically, three types of LP decision problems: mean-field game (MG), mean-field team (MT), and mean-field-type control (MC), are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Huang Jianhui , Qiu Zhenghong , Wang Shujun , Wu Zhen

We investigate the existence of an optimal policy to monitor a mean field systems of agents managing a risky project under moral hazard with accidents modeled by L\'evy processes magnified by the law of the project. We provide a general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Thibaut Mastrolia , Jiacheng Zhang

Mean field games is a recent area of study introduced by Lions and Lasry in a series of seminal papers in 2006. Mean field games model situations of competition between large number of rational agents that play non-cooperative dynamic games…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-03-18 Diogo A. Gomes , Joana Mohr , Rafael R. Souza

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 investigate an infinite-horizon time-inconsistent mean-field game (MFG) in a discrete time setting. We first present a classic equilibrium for the MFG and its associated existence result. This classic equilibrium aligns with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Erhan Bayraktar , Zhenhua Wang

This article considers a mean field game model inspired by crowd motion models in which agents aim at reaching a given target set and wish to minimize a cost consisting of an individual running cost, an individual cost depending on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Guilherme Mazanti , Laurent Pfeiffer , Saeed Sadeghi Arjmand

Game theory relies heavily on the availability of cardinal utility functions, but in fields such as matching markets, only ordinal preferences are typically elicited. The literature focuses on mechanisms with simple dominant strategies, but…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Fabian R. Pieroth , Martin Bichler

We establish a connection between federated learning, a concept from machine learning, and mean-field games, a concept from game theory and control theory. In this analogy, the local federated learners are considered as the players and the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-09 Arash Mehrjou

In this paper we study a mean field model for discrete time, finite number of states, dynamic games. These models arise in situations that involve a very large number of agents moving from state to state according to certain optimality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-03-10 Diogo A. Gomes , Joana Mohr , Rafael R. Souza

This paper is concerned with the study of mean field games master equations involving an additional variable modelling common noise. We address cases in which the dynamics of this variable can depend on the state of the game, which requires…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Charles Meynard , Charles Bertucci