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This paper studies multidimensional mean field games with common noise and the related system of McKean-Vlasov forward-backward stochastic differential equations deriving from the stochastic maximum principle. We first propose some…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Jodi Dianetti

Mean-field SDEs, also known as McKean-Vlasov equations, are stochastic differential equations where the drift and diffusion depend on the current distribution in addition to the current position. We describe an efficient numerical method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-25 Peter Kloeden , Tony Shardlow

In this paper, we study the fundamental statistical efficiency of Reinforcement Learning in Mean-Field Control (MFC) and Mean-Field Game (MFG) with general model-based function approximation. We introduce a new concept called Mean-Field…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Jiawei Huang , Batuhan Yardim , Niao He

Inspired by the stochastic particle method, this paper establishes an easily implementable explicit numerical method for McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations (MV-SDEs) with superlinear growth coefficients. The paper establishes…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Yuanping Cui , Xiaoyue Li , Yi Liu , Fengyu Wang

This paper establishes H\"{o}lder time regularity of solutions to coupled McKean-Vlasov forward-backward stochastic differential equations (MV-FBSDEs). This is not only of fundamental mathematical interest, but also essential for their…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-16 Christoph Reisinger , Wolfgang Stockinger , Yufei Zhang

We propose a generative framework for learning stochastic dynamics from endpoint and intermediate distributional observations. The method formulates generation as a McKean-Vlasov control problem in which terminal and time-marginal laws are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Samer El Boustany , Samy Mekkaoui , Yadh Hafsi , Alexandre Alouadi , Huyên Pham

We propose a new method for the numerical solution of the forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDE) appearing in the Feynman-Kac representation of the value function in stochastic optimal control problems. Using Girsanov's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-20 Kelsey P. Hawkins , Ali Pakniyat , Evangelos Theodorou , Panagiotis Tsiotras

In this paper, we propose forward and backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) based deep neural network (DNN) learning algorithms for the solution of high dimensional quasilinear parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs),…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-10 Wenzhong Zhang , Wei Cai

In this paper we present a novel sampling-based numerical scheme designed to solve a certain class of stochastic optimal control problems, utilizing forward and backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). By means of a nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Ioannis Exarchos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations (MVSDEs) describe systems whose dynamics depend on both individual states and the population distribution, and they arise widely in neuroscience, finance, and epidemiology. In many…

Computation · Statistics 2026-01-21 Ning Ning , Amin Wu

In this paper we study the classical solution to the master equation arising from mean-field games (MFGs) driven by jump-diffusion processes. The master equation, a nonlinear partial differential equation on Wasserstein space, characterizes…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Jiusheng Liu , Jing Zhang

In this article, we investigate three classes of equations: the McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equation (MVSDE), the MVSDE with a subdifferential operator referred to as the McKean-Vlasov stochastic variational inequality (MVSVI),…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-31 Ning Ning , Jing Wu , Jinwei Zheng

The paper studies a multi-dimensional mean-field reflected backward stochastic differential equation (MF-RBSDE) with a reflection constraint depending on both the value process $Y$ and its distribution $[Y]$. We establish the existence,…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Ruisen Qian

This paper studies a stochastic mean-field linear-quadratic Stackelberg differential game with random coefficients. The interaction between mean-field terms and random coefficients precludes the direct use of conventional decoupling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Ying Yang , Jie Xiong , Zhouyu Wang

We introduce the deep multi-FBSDE method for robust approximation of coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs), focusing on cases where the deep BSDE method of Han, Jentzen, and E (2018) fails to converge. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Kristoffer Andersson , Adam Andersson , Cornelis W. Oosterlee

We propose a deep learning approach to compute mean field control problems with individual noises. The problem consists of the Fokker-Planck (FP) equation and the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. Using the differential of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Mo Zhou , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

Forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) have attracted significant attention since they were introduced almost 30 years ago, due to their wide range of applications, from solving non-linear PDEs to pricing American-type…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Elena Issoglio , Shuai Jing

We propose some numerical schemes for forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) based on a new fundamental concept of transposition solutions. These schemes exploit time-splitting methods for the variation of constants…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Kazufumi Ito , Yufei Zhang , Jun Zou

In this paper, we mainly focus on solving high-dimensional stochastic Hamiltonian systems with boundary condition, which is essentially a Forward Backward Stochastic Differential Equation (FBSDE in short), and propose a novel method from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-13 Shaolin Ji , Shige Peng , Ying Peng , Xichuan Zhang

We are concerned with high-dimensional coupled FBSDE systems approximated by the deep BSDE method of Han et al. (2018). It was shown by Han and Long (2020) that the errors induced by the deep BSDE method admit a posteriori estimate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Balint Negyesi , Zhipeng Huang , Cornelis W. Oosterlee