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The conditional gradient method (CGM) has been widely used for fast sparse approximation, having a low per iteration computational cost for structured sparse regularizers. We explore the sparsity acquiring properties of a generalized CGM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Yifan Sun , Francis Bach

A dynamic mean field theory is developed for finite state and action Bayesian reinforcement learning in the large state space limit. In an analogy with statistical physics, the Bellman equation is studied as a disordered dynamical system;…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-13 George Stamatescu

We consider reinforcement learning (RL) methods for finding optimal policies in linear quadratic (LQ) mean field control (MFC) problems over an infinite horizon in continuous time, with common noise and entropy regularization. We study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Noufel Frikha , Huyên Pham , Xuanye Song

This paper provides a unifying view of a wide range of problems of interest in machine learning by framing them as the minimization of functionals defined on the space of probability measures. In particular, we show that generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Casey Chu , Jose Blanchet , Peter Glynn

Goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL) refers to learning general-purpose skills that aim to reach diverse goals. In particular, offline GCRL only requires purely pre-collected datasets to perform training tasks without additional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Hanlin Zhu , Amy Zhang

This paper develops the first policy gradient method with global optimality guarantee and complexity analysis for robust reinforcement learning under model mismatch. Robust reinforcement learning is to learn a policy robust to model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Yue Wang , Shaofeng Zou

While the general theory for the terminal-initial value problem in mean-field games is widely used in many models of applied mathematics, the modeling potential of the corresponding forward-forward version is still under-considered. In this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-01 Adriano Festa , Simone Gottlich , Michele Ricciardi

The objectives of this technical report is to provide additional results on the generalized conditional gradient methods introduced by Bredies et al. [BLM05]. Indeed , when the objective function is smooth, we provide a novel certificate of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Alain Rakotomamonjy , Rémi Flamary , Nicolas Courty

In this paper, we consider multi-agent learning via online gradient descent in a class of games called $\lambda$-cocoercive games, a fairly broad class of games that admits many Nash equilibria and that properly includes unconstrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Tianyi Lin , Zhengyuan Zhou , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Michael I. Jordan

Given a probability distribution $\mu$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$ represented by data, we study in this paper the generative modeling of the corresponding conditional probability distributions on the level-sets of a collective variable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-30 Fatima-Zahrae Akhyar , Wei Zhang , Gabriel Stoltz , Christof Schütte

In this article, we consider mean field games between a dominating player and a group of representative agents, each of which acts similarly and also interacts with each other through a mean field term being substantially influenced by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-28 Alain Bensoussan , Michael Chau , Phillip Yam

Quantilized mean-field game models involve quantiles of the population's distribution. We study a class of such games with a capacity for ranking games, where the performance of each agent is evaluated based on its terminal state relative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Rinel Foguen Tchuendom , Dena Firoozi , Michèle Breton

Although deep learning has achieved appealing results on several machine learning tasks, most of the models are deterministic at inference, limiting their application to single-modal settings. We propose a novel general-purpose framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Sameera Ramasinghe , Kanchana Ranasinghe , Salman Khan , Nick Barnes , Stephen Gould

We consider concurrent games played by two-players on a finite-state graph, where in every round the players simultaneously choose a move, and the current state along with the joint moves determine the successor state. We study a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-19 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen

In this paper we explore the impact of quantiles on optimal strategies under state dynamics driven by both individual noise, common noise and Poisson jumps. We first establish an optimality system satisfied the quantile process under jump…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-22 Hamidou Tembine

We propose a novel mean field games (MFGs) based GAN(generative adversarial network) framework. To be specific, we utilize the Hopf formula in density space to rewrite MFGs as a primal-dual problem so that we are able to train the model via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Shaojun Ma , Haomin Zhou , Hongyuan Zha

This paper studies a class of linear quadratic mean field games where the coefficients of quadratic cost functions depend on both the mean and the variance of the population's state distribution through its quantile function. Such a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Shuang Gao , Roland P. Malhamé

The two-timescale gradient descent-ascent (GDA) is a canonical gradient algorithm designed to find Nash equilibria in min-max games. We analyze the two-timescale GDA by investigating the effects of learning rate ratios on convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Jing An , Jianfeng Lu

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

This paper is devoted to finite horizon deterministic mean field games in which the state space is a network. The agents control their velocity, and when they occupy a vertex, they can enter into any incident edge. The running and terminal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Yves Achdou , Paola Mannucci , Claudio Marchi , Nicoletta Tchou