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Mean Field Games (MFGs) have been introduced to efficiently approximate games with very large populations of strategic agents. Recently, the question of learning equilibria in MFGs has gained momentum, particularly using model-free…

In this paper, we study the local linear convergence properties of a versatile class of Primal-Dual splitting methods for minimizing composite non-smooth convex optimization problems. Under the assumption that the non-smooth components of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-10 Jingwei Liang , Jalal Fadili , Gabriel Peyré

We study a numerical approximation of a time-dependent Mean Field Game (MFG) system with local couplings. The discretization we consider stems from a variational approach described in [Briceno-Arias, Kalise, and Silva, SIAM J. Control…

We propose an unconstrained optimization method based on the well-known primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) algorithm. We first formulate the optimality condition of the unconstrained optimization problem as a saddle point problem. We then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-29 X. Zuo , S. Osher , W. Li

We propose a MFG model with quadratic Hamiltonian involving $N$ populations. This results in a system of $N$ Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman and $N$ Fokker-Planck equations with non-local interactions. As in the classical case we introduce an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Luigi De Pascale , Luca Nenna

We construct numerical approximations for Mean Field Games with fractional or nonlocal diffusions. The schemes are based on semi-Lagrangian approximations of the underlying control problems/games along with dual approximations of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Indranil Chowdhury , Olav Ersland , Espen R. Jakobsen

Here, we consider numerical methods for stationary mean-field games (MFG) and investigate two classes of algorithms. The first one is a gradient-flow method based on the variational characterization of certain MFG. The second one uses…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-23 Noha Almulla , Rita Ferreira , Diogo Gomes

Here, we observe that mean-field game (MFG) systems admit a two-player infinite-dimensional general-sum differential game formulation. We show that particular regimes of this game reduce to previously known variational principles.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-25 Marco Cirant , Levon Nurbekyan

Mean Field Games (MFG) have been introduced to tackle games with a large number of competing players. Considering the limit when the number of players is infinite, Nash equilibria are studied by considering the interaction of a typical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-14 Mathieu Lauriere

In this paper we present a numerical scheme to solve coupled mean field forward-backward stochastic differential equations driven by monotone vector fields. This is based on an adaptation of so called extragradient methods by characterizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Charles Meynard

This paper proposes a multiscale method for solving the numerical solution of mean field games which accelerates the convergence and addresses the problem of determining the initial guess. Starting from an approximate solution at the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Haoya Li , Yuwei Fan , Lexing Ying

Finite-state mean-field games (MFGs) arise as limits of large interacting particle systems and are governed by an MFG system, a coupled forward-backward differential equation consisting of a forward Kolmogorov-Fokker-Planck (KFP) equation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 William Hofgard , Asaf Cohen , Mathieu Laurière

Mean field games (MFG) and mean field control (MFC) are critical classes of multi-agent models for efficient analysis of massive populations of interacting agents. Their areas of application span topics in economics, finance, game theory,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Lars Ruthotto , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li , Levon Nurbekyan , Samy Wu Fung

Mean field Game (MFG) Partial Differential Inclusions (PDI) are generalizations of the system of Partial Differential Equations (PDE) of Lasry and Lions to situations where players in the game may have possibly nonunique optimal controls,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Yohance A. P. Osborne , Iain Smears

This manuscript discusses planning problems for first- and second-order one-dimensional mean-field games (MFGs). These games are comprised of a Hamilton-Jacobi equation coupled with a Fokker-Planck equation. Applying Poincar\'e's Lemma to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Tigran Bakaryan , Rita Ferreira , Diogo Gomes

We propose and study several inverse problems for the mean field games (MFG) system in a bounded domain. Our focus is on simultaneously recovering the running cost and the Hamiltonian within the MFG system by the associated boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Hongyu Liu , Shen Zhang

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

In this paper, we propose a catalog of iterative methods for solving the Split Feasibility Problem in the non-convex setting. We study four different optimization formulations of the problem, where each model has advantageous in different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-12 Aviv Gibali , Shoham Sabach , Sergey Voldman

We propose an efficient solution approach for high-dimensional nonlocal mean-field game (MFG) systems based on the Monte Carlo approximation of interaction kernels via random features. We avoid costly space-discretizations of interaction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Sudhanshu Agrawal , Wonjun Lee , Samy Wu Fung , Levon Nurbekyan

This project investigates numerical methods for solving fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) of McKean-Vlasov type. Having numerical solvers for such mean field FBSDEs is of interest because of the…