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This work tackles the problem of energy-efficient distributed power control in wireless networks with a large number of transmitters. The problem is modeled by a dynamic game. Each transmitter-receiver communication is characterized by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-30 François Mériaux , Vineeth Varma , Samson Lasaulce

We consider a market where a finite number of players trade an asset whose supply is a stochastic process. The price formation problem consists of finding a price process that ensures that when agents act optimally to minimize their trading…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-15 Diogo Gomes , Julian Gutierrez , Ricardo Ribeiro

As demonstrated by Ratliff et al. (2014), inverse optimization can be used to recover the objective function parameters of players in multi-player Nash games. These games involve the optimization problems of multiple players in which the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Stephanie Allen , John P. Dickerson , Steven A. Gabriel

For a class of finite horizon first order mean field games and associated N-player games, we give a simple proof of convergence of symmetric N-player Nash equilibria in distributed open-loop strategies to solutions of the mean field game in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-11 Markus Fischer , Francisco J. Silva

We analyze a system of partial differential equations that model a potential mean field game of controls, briefly MFGC. Such a game describes the interaction of infinitely many negligible players competing to optimize a personal value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Jameson Graber , Alan Mullenix , Laurent Pfeiffer

This paper studies the connections between mean-field games and the social welfare optimization problems. We consider a mean field game in functional spaces with a large population of agents, each of which seeks to minimize an individual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Sen Li , Wei Zhang , Lin Zhao

This paper studies the competition among multiple fund managers with relative performance over the excess logarithmic return. Fund managers compete with each other and have expected utility or mean-variance criteria for excess logarithmic…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-03-05 Guohui Guan , Jiaqi Hu , Zongxia Liang

We prove that solutions to a class of Mean Field Game systems with discount are unique provided that the discount factor is large enough, and the Lagrangian term is (proportionally) small enough. This identifies an asymptotic uniqueness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Marco Cirant , Elisa Continelli

In this paper, we study two kinds of inverse problems for Mean Field Games (MFGs) with common noise. Our focus is on MFGs described by a coupled system of stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman and Fokker-Planck equations. Firstly, we establish…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Qi Lü , Zhonghua Liao

This paper is concerned with mean field games in which the players do not know the repartition of the other players. First a case in which the players do not gain information is studied. Results of existence and uniqueness are proved and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Charles Bertucci

We propose a new mean-field game model with two states to study synchronization phenomena, and we provide a comprehensive characterization of stationary and dynamic equilibria along with their stability properties. The game undergoes a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Felix Höfer , H. Mete Soner

Mean field type models describing the limiting behavior, as the number of players tends to $+\infty$, of stochastic differential game problems, have been recently introduced by J-M. Lasry and P-L. Lions. Numerical methods for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-07-13 Yves Achdou , Fabio Camilli , Italo Capuzzo Dolcetta

We consider a Mean Field Games model where the dynamics of the agents is given by a controlled Langevin equation and the cost is quadratic. A change of variables, introduced in [9], transforms the Mean Field Games system into a system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Fabio Camilli

We present a new combined \textit{mean field control game} (MFCG) problem which can be interpreted as a competitive game between collaborating groups and its solution as a Nash equilibrium between groups. Players coordinate their strategies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-16 Andrea Angiuli , Nils Detering , Jean-Pierre Fouque , Mathieu Lauriere , Jimin Lin

We consider Cournot mean field games of controls, a model originally developed for the production of an exhaustible resource by a continuum of producers. We prove uniqueness of the solution under general assumptions on the price function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Fabio Camilli , Mathieu Laurière , Qing Tang

Mean field game (MFG) is an expressive modeling framework for systems with a continuum of interacting agents. While many approaches exist for solving the forward MFG, few have studied its \textit{inverse} problem. In this work, we seek to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Han Huang , Jiajia Yu , Tianyi Chen , Rongjie Lai

Mean field games (MFGs) offer a versatile framework for modeling large-scale interactive systems across multiple domains. This paper builds upon a previous work, by developing a state-of-the-art unified approach to decode or design the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Hongyu Liu , Catharine W. K. Lo

In this paper, we investigate the robustness of stationary mean-field equilibria in the presence of model uncertainties, specifically focusing on infinite-horizon discounted cost functions. To achieve this, we initially establish…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Uğur Aydın , Naci Saldi

Two-player quantitative zero-sum games provide a natural framework to synthesize controllers with performance guarantees for reactive systems within an uncontrollable environment. Classical settings include mean-payoff games, where the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Patricia Bouyer , Nicolas Markey , Mickael Randour , Kim G. Larsen , Simon Laursen

In this paper, we study a large population game with heterogeneous dynamics and cost functions solving a consensus problem. Moreover, the agents have communication constraints which appear as: (1) an Additive-White Gaussian Noise (AWGN)…

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