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This paper presents a general closed graph property for (randomized strategy) Nash equilibrium correspondence in large games. In particular, we show that for any large game with a convergent sequence of fiinite-player games, the limit of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Enxian Chen , Bin Wu , Hanping Xu

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

We propose a new approach to mean field games with major and minor players. Our formulation involves a two player game where the optimization of the representative minor player is standard while the major player faces an optimization over…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-26 Rene Carmona , Xiuneng Zhu

We analyze asymptotic convergence properties of Newton's method for a class of evolutive Mean Field Games systems with non-separable Hamiltonian arising in mean field type models with congestion. We prove the well posedness of the Mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Fabio Camilli , Qing Tang

We investigate an infinite-horizon time-inconsistent mean-field game (MFG) in a discrete time setting. We first present a classic equilibrium for the MFG and its associated existence result. This classic equilibrium aligns with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Erhan Bayraktar , Zhenhua Wang

First order kinetic mean field games formally describe the Nash equilibria of deterministic differential games where agents control their acceleration, asymptotically in the limit as the number of agents tends to infinity. The known results…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Megan Griffin-Pickering , Alpár R. Mészáros

This paper studies the n-player game and the mean field game under the CRRA relative performance on terminal wealth, in which the interaction occurs by peer competition. In the model with n agents, the price dynamics of underlying risky…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-02-10 Lijun Bo , Shihua Wang , Xiang Yu

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

The recent mean field game (MFG) formalism facilitates otherwise intractable computation of approximate Nash equilibria in many-agent settings. In this paper, we consider discrete-time finite MFGs subject to finite-horizon objectives. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Kai Cui , Heinz Koeppl

We consider $\epsilon$-equilibria notions for constant value of $\epsilon$ in $n$-player $m$-actions games where $m$ is a constant. We focus on the following question: What is the largest grid size over the mixed strategies such that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Itai Arieli , Yakov Babichenko

In this note we prove the uniqueness of solutions to a class of Mean Field Games systems subject to possibly degenerate individual noise. Our results hold true for arbitrary long time horizons and for general non-separable Hamiltonians that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Alpár R. Mészáros , Chenchen Mou

Existence and uniqueness of a weak solution for first order mean field game systems with local coupling are obtained by variational methods. This solution can be used to devise $\epsilon-$Nash equilibria for deterministic differential games…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-31 Pierre Cardaliaguet

This paper introduces constrained correlated equilibrium, a solution concept combining correlation and coupled constraints in finite non-cooperative games. In the general case of an arbitrary correlation device and coupled constraints in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Omar Boufous , Rachid El-Azouzi , Mikaël Touati , Eitan Altman , Mustapha Bouhtou

This paper concerns the simultaneous effect of homogenization and of the small noise limit for a $2^{\textrm {nd}}$ order mean field games (MFG) system with local coupling and quadratic Hamiltonian. We show under some additional assumptions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Annalisa Cesaroni , Nicolas Dirr , Claudio Marchi

The problem of computing a common point that lies in the intersection of a finite number of closed convex sets, each known to one agent in a network, is studied. This issue, known as the distributed convex feasibility problem or the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Dimitris Ampeliotis , Kostas Berberidis

We present examples of equations arising in the theory of mean field games that can be reduced to a system in smaller dimensions. Such examples come up in certain applications, and they can be used as modeling tools to numerically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Jean-Michel Lasry , Pierre-Louis Lions , Benjamin Seeger

We develop a probabilistic approach to continuous-time finite state mean field games. Based on an alternative description of continuous-time Markov chain by means of semimartingale and the weak formulation of stochastic optimal control, our…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-24 Rene Carmona , Peiqi Wang

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

This paper investigates the convergence time of log-linear learning to an $\epsilon$-efficient Nash equilibrium in potential games, where an efficient Nash equilibrium is defined as the maximizer of the potential function. Previous…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Anna Maddux , Reda Ouhamma , Maryam Kamgarpour

We study a mean field optimal control problem with general non-Markovian dynamics, including both common noise and jumps. We show that its minimizers are Nash equilibria of an associated mean field game of controls. These types of games are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Felix Höfer , H. Mete Soner