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Here, we prove the existence of solutions to first-order mean-field games (MFGs) arising in optimal switching. First, we use the penalization method to construct approximate solutions. Then, we prove uniform estimates for the penalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Diogo A. Gomes , Stefania Patrizi

We consider deterministic mean field games in which the agents control their acceleration and are constrained to remain in a domain of R n. We study relaxed equilibria in the Lagrangian setting; they are described by a probability measure…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Yves Achdou , Paola Mannucci , Claudio Marchi , Nicoletta Tchou

Motivated by the computational difficulties incurred by popular deep learning algorithms for the generative modeling of temporal densities, we propose a cheap alternative which requires minimal hyperparameter tuning and scales favorably to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-13 Jonah Botvinick-Greenhouse , Yunan Yang , Romit Maulik

Diffusion-based planning has achieved strong results in single-agent offline reinforcement learning, yet scaling to many-agent systems remains intractable due to the curse of dimensionality in the joint trajectory space. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Wenhao Li , Xiangfeng Wang , Bo Jin

The basic optimal transportation problem consists in finding the most effective way of moving masses from one location to another, while minimizing the transportation cost. Such concept has been found to be useful to understand various…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-10 Alonso Silva , Hamidou Tembine , Eitan Altman , Merouane Debbah

In a mean field game of controls, players seek to minimize a cost that depends on the joint distribution of players' states and controls. We consider an ergodic problem for second-order mean field games of controls with state constraints,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Jameson Graber , Kyle Rosengartner

The recent emergence of navigational tools has changed traffic patterns and has now enabled new types of congestion-aware routing control like dynamic road pricing. Using the fundamental diagram of traffic flows - applied in macroscopic and…

We consider interacting agent systems with a large number of stochastic agents (or particles) influenced by a fixed number of external stochastic lead agents. Such examples arise, for example in models of opinion dynamics, where a small…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Sebastian Zimper , Ana Djurdjevac , Carsten Hartmann , Christof Schütte , Nataša Djurdjevac Conrad

We develop the fictitious play algorithm in the context of the linear programming approach for mean field games of optimal stopping and mean field games with regular control and absorption. This algorithm allows to approximate the mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Roxana Dumitrescu , Marcos Leutscher , Peter Tankov

Mean field games formalize dynamic games with a continuum of players and explicit interaction where the players can have heterogeneous states. As they additionally yield approximate equilibria of corresponding $N$-player games, they are of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-09 Berenice Anne Neumann

This paper studies a mean field game inspired by crowd motion in which agents evolve in a compact domain and want to reach its boundary minimizing the sum of their travel time and a given boundary cost. Interactions between agents occur…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-31 Samer Dweik , Guilherme Mazanti

Motivated by an optimal visiting problem, we study a switching mean-field game on a network, where both a decisional and a switching time-variable is at disposal of the agents for what concerns, respectively, the instant to decide and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Fabio Bagagiolo , Luciano Marzufero

We consider deterministic mean field games where the dynamics of a typical agent is non-linear with respect to the state variable and affine with respect to the control variable. Particular instances of the problem considered here are mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Justina Gianatti , Francisco J. Silva

This paper focuses on a class of continuous-time controlled Markov chains with time-inconsistent and distribution-dependent cost functional (in some appropriate sense). A new definition of time-inconsistent distribution-dependent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-26 Hongwei Mei , George Yin

The standard formulation of the PDE system of Mean Field Games (MFG) requires the differentiability of the Hamiltonian. However in many cases, the structure of the underlying optimal problem leads to a convex but nondifferentiable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Yohance A. P. Osborne , Iain Smears

We consider a mean-field control problem in which admissible controls are required to be adapted to the common noise filtration. The main objective is to show how the mean-field control problem can be approximates by time consistent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Bruno Bouchard , Xiaolu Tan

We introduce a class of robust control problems formulated in min-max form, in which the principal agent is viewed as a central planner facing Nature. The agent's cost is a nonlinear function of all its possible realizations, encompassing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-24 François Delarue , Pierre Lavigne

This paper studies the equitable and optimal transport (EOT) problem, which has many applications such as fair division problems and optimal transport with multiple agents etc. In the discrete distributions case, the EOT problem can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Minhui Huang , Shiqian Ma , Lifeng Lai

We propose an optimal solution to a deterministic dynamic assignment problem by leveraging connections to the theory of discrete optimal transport to convert the combinatorial assignment problem into a tractable linear program. We seek to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Koray G. Kachar , Alex A. Gorodetsky

This paper aims to answer the research question as to optimal design of decision-making processes for autonomous vehicles (AVs), including dynamical selection of driving velocity and route choices on a transportation network. Dynamic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Kuang Huang , Xu Chen , Xuan Di , Qiang Du