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We study linear quadratic dynamic games where players are uncertain about each other's control policies or goals and consequently seek to be strategically robust. Building on recent work on strategically robust and risk-averse game theory,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Boris Velasevic , Nicolas Lanzetti , Eric Mazumdar

This paper studies open-loop and feedback solutions to leader-follower mean field linear-quadratic-Gaussian games with multiplicative noise by the direct approach. The leader-follower game involves a leader and many followers, where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Bing-Chang Wang , Huanshui Zhang , Ji-Feng Zhang

Motivated by linear-quadratic optimal control problems (LQ problems, for short) for mean-field stochastic differential equations (SDEs, for short) with the coefficients containing regime switching governed by a Markov chain, we consider an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Hongwei Mei , Qingmeng Wei , Jiongmin Yong

In this paper, we concern with the ergodic linear-quadratic closed-loop optimal control problems, in which the state equation is the mean-field stochastic differential equation with periodic coefficients. We first study the asymptotic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Jiacheng Wu , Qi Zhang

The Stackelberg game model, where a leader commits to a strategy and the follower best responds, has found widespread application, particularly to security problems. In the security setting, the goal is for the leader to compute an optimal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Sai Mali Ananthanarayanan , Christian Kroer

In this article, we provide a comprehensive study of the linear-quadratic mean field games via the adjoint equation approach; although the problem has been considered in the literature by Huang, Caines and Malhame (HCM, 2007a), their method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-24 Alain Bensoussan , Joseph Sung , Phillip Yam , Siu Pang Yung

Stackelberg games have been widely used to model interactive decision-making problems in a variety of domains such as energy systems, transportation, cybersecurity, and human-robot interaction. However, existing algorithms for solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Yansong Li , Shuo Han

This paper focuses on the discrete-time backward stochastic linear quadratic (BSLQ) optimal control problem with nonhomogeneous system terms and cost function cross terms. The terminal constraint of such systems distinguishes it from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Hu Ligui , Meng Qingxin , Tang Maoning

This paper studies finite-horizon stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problems with random coefficients and Poisson jumps, where the weighting matrices may be random and indefinite. Under a uniform convexity condition on the cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Kai Ding , Jiaqiang Wen , Jie Xiong , Xin Zhang

This paper considers linear quadratic (LQ) mean field games with a major player and analyzes an asymptotic solvability problem. It starts with a large-scale system of coupled dynamic programming equations and applies a re-scaling technique…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Yan Ma , Minyi Huang

In this paper, we study the optimal control problem for steering the state covariance of a discrete-time linear stochastic system over a finite time horizon. First, we establish the existence and uniqueness of the optimal control law for a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Fengjiao Liu , George Rapakoulias , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Solving feedback Stackelberg games with nonlinear dynamics and coupled constraints, a common scenario in practice, presents significant challenges. This work introduces an efficient method for computing approximate local feedback…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Jingqi Li , Somayeh Sojoudi , Claire Tomlin , David Fridovich-Keil

This paper is concerned with zero-sum stochastic linear-quadratic differential games in a regime switching model. The coefficients of the games depend on the underlying noises, so it is a non-Markovian regime switching model. Based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Panpan Zhang , Zuo Quan Xu

A general backward stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem is studied, in which both the state equation and the cost functional contain the nonhomogeneous terms. The main feature of the problem is that the weighting matrices in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Jingrui Sun , Jiaqiang Wen , Jie Xiong

The multilevel reverse Stackelberg game is considered. In this game, the leader controls the outcome by announcing a strategy as a function of decision variables of the followers to his/her own decision space. Corresponding to the leader's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Seyfe Belete Worku , Birilew Belayneh Tsegaw , Semu Mitiku Kassa

In this paper, a large class of time-varying Riccati equations arising in stochastic dynamic games is considered. The problem of the existence and uniqueness of some globally defined solution, namely the bounded and stabilizing solution, is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Samir Aberkane , Vasile Dragan

We extend the formalism of Conjectural Variations games to Stackelberg games involving multiple leaders and a single follower. To solve these nonconvex games, a common assumption is that the leaders compute their strategies having perfect…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Francesco Morri , Hélène Le Cadre , Luce Brotcorne

We provide a thorough study of a general class of linear-quadratic extended mean field games and control problems in any dimensions where the mean field terms are allowed to be unbounded and there are also presence of cross terms in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Alain Bensoussan , Bohan Li , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

This paper is concerned with the linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control of continuous-time system with terminal state constraint. In particular, multiple agents exist in the system which can only access partial information of the matrix…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Wenjing Yang , Zhaorong Zhang , Juanjuan Xu

A time-inconsistent optimal control problem is formulated and studied for a controlled linear ordinary differential equation with quadratic cost functional. A notion of equilibrium control is introduced, which can be regarded as a…

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