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An iterative finite difference scheme for mean field games (MFGs) is proposed. The target MFGs are derived from control problems for multidimensional systems with advection terms. For such MFGs, linearization using the Cole-Hopf…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Daisuke Inoue , Yuji Ito , Takahito Kashiwabara , Norikazu Saito , Hiroaki Yoshida

In this paper, we propose an initial value fomulation of the discrete mean field games on finite graphs (Graph MFG), and design a neural network based approach to solve it. Graph MFG describes infinite, non-cooperative and interactive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Yaxin Feng , Yang Xiang , Haomin Zhou

For noncooperative games the mean field (MF) methodology provides decentralized strategies which yield Nash equilibria for large population systems in the asymptotic limit of an infinite (mass) population. The MF control laws use only the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-22 Arman C. Kizilkale , Peter E. Caines

In a mean field game of controls, a large population of identical players seek to minimize a cost that depends on the joint distribution of the states of the players and their controls. We first consider the classes of mean field games of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-05 P. Jameson Graber , Kyle Rosengartner

In this article, we propose two numerical methods, the Gaussian Process (GP) method and the Fourier Features (FF) algorithm, to solve mean field games (MFGs). The GP algorithm approximates the solution of a MFG with maximum a posteriori…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Chenchen Mou , Xianjin Yang , Chao Zhou

This paper studies Mean Field Games (MFGs) in which agent dynamics are given by jump processes of controlled intensity, with mean-field interaction via the controls and affecting the jump intensities. We establish the existence of MFG…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Nicolas Garcia , Ronnie Sircar , H. Mete Soner

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

Mean field games (MFGs) model the limit of large populations of strategically interacting agents, yet both forward and inverse problems remain challenging. For the forward problem, a difficulty is to design numerical methods with global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Hanwei Yan , Xianjin Yang , Jingguo Zhang

Mean field games (MFGs) describe the limit, as $n$ tends to infinity, of stochastic differential games with $n$ players interacting with one another through their common empirical distribution. Under suitable smoothness assumptions that…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Francois Delarue , Daniel Lacker , Kavita Ramanan

Recent techniques based on Mean Field Games (MFGs) allow the scalable analysis of multi-player games with many similar, rational agents. However, standard MFGs remain limited to homogeneous players that weakly influence each other, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Kai Cui , Gökçe Dayanıklı , Mathieu Laurière , Matthieu Geist , Olivier Pietquin , Heinz Koeppl

This paper considers decentralized control and optimization methodologies for large populations of systems, consisting of several agents with different individual behaviors, constraints and interests, and affected by the aggregate behavior…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Sergio Grammatico , Francesca Parise , Marcello Colombino , John Lygeros

We address a multi-class traffic model, for which we computationally assess the ability of mean-field games (MFGs) to yield approximate Nash equilibria for traffic flow games of intractable large finite-players. We introduce ad hoc…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Amal Machtalay , Abderrahmane Habbal , Ahmed Ratnani , Imad Kissami

We investigate mean field games for players, who are weakly coupled via their empirical measure. To this end we investigate time-dependent pure jump type propagators over a finite space in the framework of non-linear Markov processes. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-25 Rani Basna , Astrid Hilbert , Vassili N. Kolokoltsov

Mean Field Games (MFG) theory describes strategic interactions in differential games with a large number of small and indistinguishable players. Traditionally, the players' control impacts only the drift term in the system's dynamics,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Vincenzo Ignazio , Michele Ricciardi

We study a class of stochastic dynamic games that exhibit strategic complementarities between players; formally, in the games we consider, the payoff of a player has increasing differences between her own state and the empirical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-13 Sachin Adlakha , Ramesh Johari

The goal of the paper is to introduce a formulation of the mean field game with major and minor players as a fixed point on a space of controls. This approach emphasizes naturally the role played by McKean-Vlasov dynamics in some of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-19 Rene Carmona , Peiqi Wang

Mean-field games (MFGs) are a modeling framework for systems with a large number of interacting agents. They have applications in economics, finance, and game theory. Normalizing flows (NFs) are a family of deep generative models that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Han Huang , Jiajia Yu , Jie Chen , Rongjie Lai

We investigate mean-field games from the point of view of a large number of indistinguishable players which eventually converges to infinity. The players are weakly coupled via their empirical measure. The dynamics of the states of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Rani Basna , Astrid Hilbert , Vassili N. Kolokoltsov

In this paper we formulate the now classical problem of optimal liquidation (or optimal trading) inside a Mean Field Game (MFG). This is a noticeable change since usually mathematical frameworks focus on one large trader in front of a…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2017-09-22 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Charles-Albert Lehalle

Mean-Field Games are games with a continuum of players that incorporate the time-dimension through a control-theoretic approach. Recently, simpler approaches relying on the Best Reply Strategy have been proposed. They assume that the agents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-24 Pierre Degond , Michael Herty , Jian-Guo Liu
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