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This paper studies a multi-agent system starting from a single agent dynamics which is a nonlinear affine control system. It analyze what happens when the number of agents goes to infinity using two different approaches, a granular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-22 Marta Zoppello

In this paper we consider an optimal control problem for a large population of interacting agents with deterministic dynamics, aggregating potential and constraints on reciprocal distances, in dimension 1. We study existence and qualitative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Annalisa Cesaroni , Marco Cirant

In the present paper we deal with an optimal control problem related to a model in population dynamics; more precisely, the goal is to modify the behavior of a given density of individuals via another population of agents interacting with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Mattia Bongini , Giuseppe Buttazzo

We analyze the dynamics of multi-agent collective behavior models and their control theoretical properties. We first derive a large population limit to parabolic diffusive equations. We also show that the non-local transport equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Umberto Biccari , Dongnam Ko , Enrique Zuazua

We consider a finite number of $N$ statistically equal agents, each moving on a finite set of states according to a continuous-time Markov Decision Process (MDP). Transition intensities of the agents and generated rewards depend not only on…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Nicole Bäuerle , Sebastian Höfer

In this paper, we investigate the interaction of two populations with a large number of indistinguishable agents. The problem consists in two levels: the interaction between agents of a same population, and the interaction between the two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Alain Bensoussan , Tao Huang , Mathieu Laurière

The well-posedness of a multi-population dynamical system with an entropy regularization and its convergence to a suitable mean-field approximation are proved, under a general set of assumptions. Under further assumptions on the evolution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Stefano Almi , Claudio D'Eramo , Marco Morandotti , Francesco Solombrino

Mean field control (MFC) problems have been introduced to study social optima in very large populations of strategic agents. The main idea is to consider an infinite population and to simplify the analysis by using a mean field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Sebastian Baudelet , Brieuc Frénais , Mathieu Laurière , Amal Machtalay , Yuchen Zhu

In this paper, we study the $extended$ mean field control problem, which is a class of McKean-Vlasov stochastic control problem where the state dynamics and the reward functions depend upon the joint (conditional) distribution of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Mao Fabrice Djete

Given a large number of homogeneous players that are distributed across three possible states, we consider the problem in which these players have to control their transition rates, while minimizing a cost. The optimal transition rates are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Leonardo Stella , Dario Bauso

This article is concerned with stochastic control problems for backward doubly stochastic differential equations of mean-field type, where the coefficient functions depend on the joint distribution of the state process and the control…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Jian Song , Meng Wang

We develop the linear programming approach to mean-field games in a general setting. This relaxed control approach allows to prove existence results under weak assumptions, and lends itself well to numerical implementation. We consider…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Roxana Dumitrescu , Marcos Leutscher , Peter Tankov

In this paper, we consider a mean field game model inspired by crowd motion in which several interacting populations evolving in $\mathbb R^d$ aim at reaching given target sets in minimal time. The movement of each agent is described by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Saeed Sadeghi Arjmand , Guilherme Mazanti

In this paper we consider mean-field optimal control problems with selective action of the control, where the constraint is a continuity equation involving a non-local term and diffusion. First order optimality conditions are formally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-02 Giacomo Albi , Marco Caliari , Elisa Calzola , Fabio Cassini

In Mean Field Games of Controls, the dynamics of the single agent is influenced not only by the distribution of the agents, as in the classical theory, but also by the distribution of their optimal strategies. In this paper, we study…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Fabio Camilli , Claudio Marchi

Mean field games and controls involve guiding the behavior of large populations of interacting agents, where each individual's influence on the group is negligible but collectively impacts overall dynamics. Hybrid systems integrate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Tejaswi K. C. , Taeyoung Lee

The synthesis of control laws for interacting agent-based dynamics and their mean-field limit is studied. A linearization-based approach is used for the computation of sub-optimal feedback laws obtained from the solution of differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-13 G. Albi , M. Herty , D. Kalise , C. Segala

In this article, we employ an input-output approach to expand the study of cooperative multi-agent control and optimization problems characterized by mean-field interactions that admit decentralized and selfish solutions. The setting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Vivek Khatana , Duo Wang , Petros Voulgaris , Nicola Elia , Naira Hovakimyan

This paper considers the problem of partially observed optimal control for forward stochastic systems which are driven by Brownian motions and an independent Poisson random measure with a feature that the cost functional is of mean-field…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-03-19 Yaozhong Hu , David Nualart , Qing Zhou

Optimal control of large particle systems with collective dynamics by few agents is a subject of high practical importance (e.g. in evacuation dynamics), but still limited mathematical basis. In particular the transition from discrete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-06 Martin Burger , René Pinnau , Andreas Roth , Claudia Totzeck , Oliver Tse