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Mean field game theory has been developed largely following two routes. One of them, called the direct approach, starts by solving a large-scale game and next derives a set of limiting equations as the population size tends to infinity. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-23 Minyi Huang , Mengjie Zhou

This paper is concerned with linear quadratic graphon field social control problem where the noises of individual agents are correlated. Compared with the well-studied mean field system, the graphon field system consists of a large number…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 De-xuan Xu , Zhun Gou , Nan-jing Huang

This paper examines mean field linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) social optimum control with volatility-uncertain common noise. The diffusion terms in the dynamics of agents contain an unknown volatility process driven by a common noise. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-16 Jianhui Huang , Bing-Chang Wang , Jiongmin Yong

This paper first presents necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of discrete time, mean-field, stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problems. Then, by introducing several sequences of bounded linear operators, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-25 Robert. J Elliott , Xun Li , Yuan-Hua Ni

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

This paper presents a novel model-free method to solve linear quadratic Gaussian mean field social control problems in the presence of multiplicative noise. The objective is to achieve a social optimum by solving two algebraic Riccati…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Zhenhui Xu , Bing-Chang Wang , Tielong Shen

This paper is concerned with a general linear quadratic (LQ) control problem of mean-field backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE). Here, the weighting matrices in the cost functional are allowed to be indefinite. Necessary and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Wencan Wang , Huanjun Zhang

We study a class of linear-quadratic mean-field games with incomplete information. For each agent, the state is given by a linear forward stochastic differential equation with common noise. Moreover, both the state and control variables can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Min Li , Tianyang Nie , Shunjun Wang , Ke Yan

This paper focuses on indefinite stochastic mean-field linear-quadratic (MF-LQ, for short) optimal control problems, which allow the weighting matrices for state and control in the cost functional to be indefinite. The solvability of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Na Li , Xun Li , Zhiyong Yu

Linear-quadratic optimal control problems are considered for mean-field stochastic differential equations with deterministic coefficients. Time-inconsistency feature of the problems is carefully investigated. Both open-loop and closed-loop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-07 Jiongmin Yong

This paper is concerned with a mean-field linear quadratic (LQ, for short) optimal control problem with deterministic coefficients. It is shown that convexity of the cost functional is necessary for the finiteness of the mean-field LQ…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-16 Jingrui Sun

This paper develops a novel approach to the consensus problem of multi-agent systems by minimizing a weighted state error with neighbor agents via linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control theory. Existing consensus control algorithms only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Liping Zhang , Juanjuan Xu , Huanshui Zhang , Lihua Xie

In this paper, the finite horizon asymmetric information linear quadratic (LQ) control problem is investigated for a discrete-time mean field system. Different from previous works, multiple controllers with different information sets are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Qingyuan Qi , Zhiqiang Liu , Qianqian Zhang , Xinbei Lv

A decentralized control system with linear dynamics, quadratic cost, and Gaussian disturbances is considered. The system consists of a finite number of subsystems whose dynamics and per-step cost function are coupled through their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-04 Jalal Arabneydi , Aditya Mahajan

In this work, we propose a feedback control based temporal discretization for linear quadratic optimal control problems (LQ problems) governed by controlled mean-field stochastic differential equations. We firstly decompose the original…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Yanqing Wang

This paper investigates a linear quadratic mean field leader-follower team problem, where the model involves one leader and a large number of weakly-coupled interactive followers. The leader and the followers cooperate to optimize the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-13 Jianhui Huang , Bing-Chang Wang , Tinghan Xie

This paper studies linear quadratic Gaussian robust mean field social control problems in the presence of multiplicative noise. We aim to compute asymptotic decentralized strategies without requiring full prior knowledge of agents'…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Zhenhui Xu , Jiayu Chen , Bing-Chang Wang , Yuhu Wu , Tielong Shen

In this work, we study a class of mean-field linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) problems. Under suitable conditions, explicit solutions of the distribution-dependent optimal control problems are obtained. Riccati systems are derived by…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Yun Li , Qingshuo Song , Fuke Wu , George Yin

This paper is concerned with linear quadratic optimal control problems for mean-field backward stochastic differential equations (MF-BSDEs, for short) with deterministic coefficients. The optimality system, which is a linear mean-field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Xun Li , Jingrui Sun , Jie Xiong

This paper investigates an indefinite linear-quadratic partially observed mean-field game with common noise, incorporating both state-average and control-average effects. In our model, each agent's state is observed through both individual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Tian Chen , Tianyang Nie , Zhen Wu