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This manuscript discusses planning problems for first- and second-order one-dimensional mean-field games (MFGs). These games are comprised of a Hamilton-Jacobi equation coupled with a Fokker-Planck equation. Applying Poincar\'e's Lemma to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Tigran Bakaryan , Rita Ferreira , Diogo Gomes

We introduce the concept of {\it mean-field optimal control} which is the rigorous limit process connecting finite dimensional optimal control problems with ODE constraints modeling multi-agent interactions to an infinite dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Massimo Fornasier , Francesco Solombrino

We introduce the rigorous limit process connecting finite dimensional sparse optimal control problems with ODE constraints, modeling parsimonious interventions on the dynamics of a moving population divided into leaders and followers, to an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Massimo Fornasier , Benedetto Piccoli , Francesco Rossi

In this paper, we consider the problem of path finding for a set of homogeneous and autonomous agents navigating a previously unknown stochastic environment. In our problem setting, each agent attempts to maximize a given utility function…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Sheryl Paul , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh

Mean-field game theory relies on approximating games that are intractable to model due to a very large to infinite population of players. While these kinds of games can be solved analytically via the associated system of partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Anna C. M. Thöni , Yoram Bachrach , Tal Kachman

In this work, we develop a new framework for dynamic network flow problems based on optimal transport theory. We show that the dynamic multi-commodity minimum-cost network flow problem can be formulated as a multi-marginal optimal transport…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Isabel Haasler , Axel Ringh , Yongxin Chen , Johan Karlsson

We study mean-field games of optimal stopping (OS-MFGs) and introduce an entropy-regularized framework to enable learning-based solution methods. By utilizing randomized stopping times, we reformulate the OS-MFG as a mean-field game of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Jodi Dianetti , Roxana Dumitrescu , Giorgio Ferrari , Renyuan Xu

In a probabilistic mean field game driven by a L\'evy process an individual player aims to minimize a long run discounted/ergodic cost by controlling the process through a pair of increasing and decreasing c\`adl\`ag processes, while he is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Facundo Oliú

The paper is concerned with the deterministic limit of mean field games with the nonlocal coupling. It is assumed that the dynamics of mean field games are given by nonlinear Markov processes. This type of games includes stochastic mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Yurii Averboukh

We investigate the existence of an optimal policy to monitor a mean field systems of agents managing a risky project under moral hazard with accidents modeled by L\'evy processes magnified by the law of the project. We provide a general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Thibaut Mastrolia , Jiacheng Zhang

This paper is interested in the problem of optimal stopping in a mean field game context. The notion of mixed solution is introduced to solve the system of partial differential equations which models this kind of problem. This notion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-14 C. Bertucci

We introduce a mean field model for optimal holding of a representative agent of her peers as a natural expected scaling limit from the corresponding $N-$agent model. The induced mean field dynamics appear naturally in a form which is not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Mao Fabrice Djete , Nizar Touzi

This paper focuses on the optimal coverage problem (OCP) for multi-agent systems with a decentralized optimization mechanism. A game based distributed decision-making method for the multi-agent OCP is proposed to address the high…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Zixin Feng , Wenchao Xue , Yifen Mu , Ming Wei , Bin Meng , Wei Cui

We study a class of stochastic exchangeable teams with a finite number of decision makers (DMs) as well as their mean-field limits with infinitely many DMs. In the finite population regime, we study exchangeable teams under the centralized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Sina Sanjari , Naci Saldi , Serdar Yüksel

In a probabilistic mean-field game driven by a linear diffusion an individual player aims to minimize an ergodic long-run cost by controlling the diffusion through a pair of -- increasing and decreasing -- c\`adl\`ag processes, while he is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Sören Christensen , Ernesto Mordecki , Facundo Oliú Eguren

We study mean-field game (MFG) problems with rough common noise, in which the representative state dynamics are governed by a controlled rough stochastic differential equation driven by an idiosyncratic Brownian motion and a deterministic…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Erhan Bayraktar , Xihao He , Xiang Yu , Fengyi Yuan

Independent sample generation is the prevailing paradigm in modern diffusion-based generative models of AI. We ask a different question: can samples \emph{coordinate} through shared population statistics to transport probability mass more…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Michael Chertkov

We study the regularity and well-posedness of the local, first-order forward-backward mean field games system, assuming a polynomially growing cost function and a Hamiltonian of quadratic growth. We consider systems and terminal data that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Sebastian Munoz

In this paper we study a type of games regularized by the relative entropy, where the players' strategies are coupled through a random environment variable. Besides the existence and the uniqueness of equilibria of such games, we prove that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Giovanni Conforti , Anna Kazeykina , Zhenjie Ren

Mean field games is a recent area of study introduced by Lions and Lasry in a series of seminal papers in 2006. Mean field games model situations of competition between large number of rational agents that play non-cooperative dynamic games…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-03-18 Diogo A. Gomes , Joana Mohr , Rafael R. Souza