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In this paper we model the role of a government of a large population as a mean field optimal control problem. Such control problems are constrainted by a PDE of continuity-type, governing the dynamics of the probability distribution of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Giacomo Albi , Young-Pil Choi , Massimo Fornasier , Dante Kalise

Conditional McKean-Vlasov control problems involve controlling McKean-Vlasov diffusions where the interaction occurs through the law of the state process conditionally on it staying in a domain. Introduced by Lions in his 2016 lectures at…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-09 René Carmona , Ludovic Tangpi , Kaiwen Zhang

In this article, we analyse the existence of an optimal feedback controller of stochastic optimal control problems governed by SDEs which have the control in the diffusion part. To this end, we consider the underlying Fokker-Planck equation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Luca Di Persio , Peter Kuchling

We develop a limit theory for controlled path-dependent mean field stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) within the semigroup approach of Da Prato and Zabczyk. More precisely, we prove existence results for mean field limits and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-20 David Criens , Moritz Ritter

In this paper we are interested in a new type of {\it mean-field}, non-Markovian stochastic control problems with partial observations. More precisely, we assume that the coefficients of the controlled dynamics depend not only on the paths…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Rainer Buckdahn , Juan Li , Jin Ma

This paper focuses on the role of a government of a large population of interacting agents as a mean field optimal control problem derived from deterministic finite agent dynamics. The control problems are constrained by a PDE of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Massimo Fornasier , Stefano Lisini , Carlo Orrieri , Giuseppe Savaré

Many applications involving multi-agent systems require fulfilling safety constraints. Control barrier functions offer a systematic framework to enforce forward invariance of safety sets. Recent work extended this paradigm to mean-field…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Cinzia Tomaselli , Gian Carlo Maffettone , Samy Wu Fung , Levon Nurbekyan , Mario di Bernardo

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 rigorously connects the problem of optimal control of McKean-Vlasov dynamics with large systems of interacting controlled state processes. Precisely, the empirical distributions of near-optimal control-state pairs for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Daniel Lacker

We consider a mean-field control problem in which admissible controls are required to be adapted to the common noise filtration. The main objective is to show how the mean-field control problem can be approximates by time consistent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Bruno Bouchard , Xiaolu Tan

We consider a general class of mean field control problems described by stochastic delayed differential equations of McKean-Vlasov type. Two numerical algorithms are provided based on deep learning techniques, one is to directly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-10 Jean-Pierre Fouque , Zhaoyu Zhang

This paper studies a class of mean-field control (MFC) problems with singular controls under general dynamic state-control-law constraints. We first propose a customized relaxed control formulation to cope with the dynamic mixed constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Lijun Bo , Jingfei Wang , Xiang Yu

A model for the evolution of a large population interacting system is considered in which a marked Poisson processes influences their evolution, together with a Brownian motion. Mean field McKean-Vlasov limits of such system are formulated…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Daniel Hernández-Hernández , Joshué Helí Ricalde-Guerrero

This paper is concerned with optimal control problems for systems governed by mean-field stochastic differential equation, in which the control enters both the drift and the diffusion coefficient. We prove that the relaxed state process,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-03 Khaled Bahlali , Meriem Mezerdi , Brahim Mezerdi

We study high-dimensional stochastic optimal control problems in which many agents cooperate to minimize a convex cost functional. We consider both the full-information problem, in which each agent observes the states of all other agents,…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Joe Jackson , Daniel Lacker

In this article, two methods for solving mean-field type optimal control problems are proposed and investigated. The two methods are iterative methods: at each iteration, a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation is solved, for a terminal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-30 Laurent Pfeiffer

We investigate a mean field optimal control problem obtained in the limit of the optimal control of large particle systems with forcing and terminal data which are not assumed to be convex. We prove that the value function, which is known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Panagiotis Souganidis

We consider a class of extended mean field games with common noises, where there exists a strictly terminal constraint. We solve the problem by reducing it to an unconstrained control problem by adding a penalized term in the cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Tianjiao Hua , Peng Luo

We study a family of McKean-Vlasov (mean-field) type ergodic optimal control problems with linear control, and quadratic dependence on control of the cost function. For this class of problems we establish existence and uniqueness of an…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Sergio Albeverio , Francesco C. De Vecchi , Andrea Romano , Stefania Ugolini

We propose and analyze a framework for discrete-time robust mean-field control problems under common noise uncertainty. In this framework, the mean-field interaction describes the collective behavior of infinitely many cooperative agents'…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Mathieu Laurière , Ariel Neufeld , Kyunghyun Park