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An iterative finite difference scheme for mean field games (MFGs) is proposed. The target MFGs are derived from control problems for multidimensional systems with advection terms. For such MFGs, linearization using the Cole-Hopf…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Daisuke Inoue , Yuji Ito , Takahito Kashiwabara , Norikazu Saito , Hiroaki Yoshida

The mean field games (MFG) paradigm was introduced to provide tractable approximations of games involving very large populations. The theory typically rests on two key assumptions: homogeneity, meaning that all players share the same…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Mathieu Laurière

In this paper we present a numerical scheme to solve coupled mean field forward-backward stochastic differential equations driven by monotone vector fields. This is based on an adaptation of so called extragradient methods by characterizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Charles Meynard

We consider the basic problem of approximating Nash equilibria in noncooperative games. For monotone games, we design continuous time flows which converge in an averaged sense to Nash equilibria. We also study mean field equilibria, which…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Ryan Hynd

We study a general class of fully coupled backward-forward stochastic differential equations of mean-field type (MF-BFSDE). We derive existence and uniqueness results for such a system under weak monotonicity assumptions and without the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Yinggu Chen , Boualem Djehiche , Said Hamadene

We extend the weak-strong uniqueness principle for mean-field game (MFG) systems to a broad class of second-order stationary and time-dependent problems. Under standard monotonicity, growth, and coercivity assumptions on the Hamiltonian,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Rita Ferreira , Diogo Gomes , Bashayer Majrashi

The intersection of Mean Field Games (MFGs) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) has fostered a growing family of algorithms designed to solve large-scale multi-agent systems. However, the field currently lacks a standardized evaluation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Lorenzo Magnino , Jiacheng Shen , Matthieu Geist , Olivier Pietquin , Mathieu Laurière

Here, we consider one-dimensional forward-forward mean-field games (MFGs) with congestion, which were introduced to approximate stationary MFGs. We use methods from the theory of conservation laws to examine the qualitative properties of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-30 Diogo Gomes , Marc Sedjro

Mean field approximation is a popular method to study the behaviour of stochastic models composed of a large number of interacting objects. When the objects are asynchronous, the mean field approximation of a population model can be…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Nicolas Gast , Diego Latella , Mieke Massink

This thesis is going to give a gentle introduction to Mean Field Games. It aims to produce a coherent text beginning for simple notions of deterministic control theory progressively to current Mean Field Games theory. The framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-03 Athanasios Vasiliadis

The approximation of mixed Nash equilibria (MNE) for zero-sum games with mean-field interacting players has recently raised much interest in machine learning. In this paper we propose a mean-field gradient descent dynamics for finding the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Yulong Lu , Pierre Monmarché

Mean field games (MFGs) describe the limit, as $n$ tends to infinity, of stochastic differential games with $n$ players interacting with one another through their common empirical distribution. Under suitable smoothness assumptions that…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Francois Delarue , Daniel Lacker , Kavita Ramanan

We investigate mean-field games (MFG) in which agents can actively control their speed of access to information. Specifically, the agents can dynamically decide to obtain observations with reduced delay by accepting higher observation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Dirk Becherer , Christoph Reisinger , Jonathan Tam

In this paper, we consider a mean field game model inspired by crowd motion where agents aim to reach a closed set, called target set, in minimal time. Congestion phenomena are modeled through a constraint on the velocity of an agent that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-23 Saeed Sadeghi Arjmand , Guilherme Mazanti

Mean field games are concerned with the limit of large-population stochastic differential games where the agents interact through their empirical distribution. In the classical setting, the number of players is large but fixed throughout…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Julien Claisse , Zhenjie Ren , Xiaolu Tan

Here, we observe that mean-field game (MFG) systems admit a two-player infinite-dimensional general-sum differential game formulation. We show that particular regimes of this game reduce to previously known variational principles.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-25 Marco Cirant , Levon Nurbekyan

We consider the problem of representing collective behavior of large populations and predicting the evolution of a population distribution over a discrete state space. A discrete time mean field game (MFG) is motivated as an interpretable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Jiachen Yang , Xiaojing Ye , Rakshit Trivedi , Huan Xu , Hongyuan Zha

In this work, we study the convergence rate of the $N$-player LQG game with a Markov chain common noise towards its asymptotic Mean Field Game. By postulating a Markovian structure via two auxiliary processes for the first and second…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Jiamin Jian , Peiyao Lai , Qingshuo Song , Jiaxuan Ye

The standard solution concept for stochastic games is Markov perfect equilibrium (MPE); however, its computation becomes intractable as the number of players increases. Instead, we consider mean field equilibrium (MFE) that has been…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-06-05 Bar Light , Gabriel Weintraub

Mean-field games with absorption is a class of games, that have been introduced in Campi and Fischer (2018) and that can be viewed as natural limits of symmetric stochastic differential games with a large number of players who, interacting…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-05 Luciano Campi , Maddalena Ghio , Giulia Livieri