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As the earliest and one of the most fundamental learning dynamics for computing NE, fictitious play (FP) has being receiving incessant research attention and finding games where FP would converge (games with FPP) is one central question in…

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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

We present a method enabling a large number of agents to learn how to flock, which is a natural behavior observed in large populations of animals. This problem has drawn a lot of interest but requires many structural assumptions and is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Sarah Perrin , Mathieu Laurière , Julien Pérolat , Matthieu Geist , Romuald Élie , Olivier Pietquin

Non-local games (NLGs) provide a versatile framework for probing quantum correlations and for benchmarking the power of entanglement. In finite dimensions, the standard method for playing several games in parallel requires a tensor product…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Sarah Chehade , Andrea Delgado , Elaine Wong

We propose a primal-dual smoothing framework for finding a near-stationary point of a class of non-smooth non-convex optimization problems with max-structure. We analyze the primal and dual gradient complexities of the framework via two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Renbo Zhao

We introduce two Smoothed Policy Iteration algorithms (\textbf{SPI}s) as rules for learning policies and methods for computing Nash equilibria in second order potential Mean Field Games (MFGs). Global convergence is proved if the coupling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Qing Tang , Jiahao Song

We study the existence of strong solutions for mean-field forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) with measurable coefficients and their implication on the Nash equilibrium of a multi-population mean-field game. More…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Kihun Nam , Yunxi Xu

The Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient (PDHG) algorithm is a first-order method that can exploit GPUs to solve large-scale linear programming problems. The approach can often be faster than the alternatives, simplex and interior-point methods,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Edward Rothberg

Mean Field Games (MFG) provide a theoretical frame to model socio-economic systems. In this letter, we study a particular class of MFG which shows strong analogies with the {\em non-linear Schr\"odinger and Gross-Pitaevski equations}…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-30 Igor Swiecicki , Thierry Gobron , Denis Ullmo

In this paper, we consider a class of structured nonsmooth optimization problems over an embedded submanifold of a Euclidean space, where the first part of the objective is the sum of a difference-of-convex (DC) function and a smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Qia Li , Na Zhang , Junyu Feng , Hanwei Yan

In this work we develop a numerical method for solving a type of convex graph-structured tensor optimization problems. This type of problems, which can be seen as a generalization of multi-marginal optimal transport problems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Axel Ringh , Isabel Haasler , Yongxin Chen , Johan Karlsson

Mean-field games with absorption is a class of games, that have been introduced in Campi and Fischer (2018) and that can be viewed as natural limits of symmetric stochastic differential games with a large number of players who, interacting…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-05 Luciano Campi , Maddalena Ghio , Giulia Livieri

We establish the convergence of the deep actor-critic reinforcement learning algorithm presented in [Angiuli et al., 2023a] in the setting of continuous state and action spaces with an infinite discrete-time horizon. This algorithm provides…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Jean-Pierre Fouque , Mathieu Laurière , Mengrui Zhang

Recently, the paper [12] introduces a derivative-free consensus-based particle method that finds the Nash equilibrium of non-convex multiplayer games, where it proves the global exponential convergence in the sense of mean-field law. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Hui Huang , Jethro Warnett

In this work we propose a new splitting technique, namely Asymmetric Forward-Backward-Adjoint splitting, for solving monotone inclusions involving three terms, a maximally monotone, a cocoercive and a bounded linear operator. Classical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-17 Puya Latafat , Panagiotis Patrinos

This contribution is dedicated to the exploration of exponential operator splitting methods for the time integration of evolution equations. It entails the review of previous achievements as well as the depiction of novel results. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Sergio Blanes , Fernando Casas , Cesareo Gonzalez , Mechthild Thalhammer

Mean-Field Game (MFG) serves as a crucial mathematical framework in modeling the collective behavior of individual agents interacting stochastically with a large population. In this work, we aim at solving a challenging class of MFGs in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-21 Guan-Horng Liu , Tianrong Chen , Oswin So , Evangelos A. Theodorou

This paper studies the distributed optimization problem when the objective functions might be nondifferentiable and subject to heterogeneous set constraints. Unlike existing subgradient methods, we focus on the case when the exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Kui Zhu , Yutao Tang

In this paper we propose a high-order numerical scheme for time-dependent mean field games systems. The scheme, which is built by combining Lagrange-Galerkin and semi-Lagrangian techniques, is consistent and stable for large time steps…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Elisa Calzola , Elisabetta Carlini , Francisco J. Silva

We propose a single-level numerical approach to solve Stackelberg mean field game (MFG) problems. In Stackelberg MFG, an infinite population of agents play a non-cooperative game and choose their controls to optimize their individual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Gokce Dayanikli , Mathieu Lauriere