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Non-cooperative and cooperative games with a very large number of players have many applications but remain generally intractable when the number of players increases. Introduced by Lasry and Lions, and Huang, Caines and Malham\'e, Mean…

Transportation on graphs is a fundamental challenge across many domains, where decisions must respect topological and operational constraints. Despite the need for actionable policies, existing graph-transport methods lack this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Panagiotis Theodoropoulos , Juno Nam , Evangelos Theodorou , Jaemoo Choi

Many natural dynamic processes -- such as in vivo cellular differentiation or disease progression -- can only be observed through the lens of static sample snapshots. While challenging, reconstructing their temporal evolution to decipher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Thomas Gravier , Thomas Boyer , Auguste Genovesio

When controlling multi-agent systems, the trade-off between performance and scalability is a major challenge. Here, we address this difficulty by using mean field games (MFGs), which is a framework that deduces the macroscopic dynamics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-06 Daisuke Inoue , Yuji Ito , Takahito Kashiwabara , Norikazu Saito , Hiroaki Yoshida

Compared to the existing function-based models in deep generative modeling, the recently proposed diffusion models have achieved outstanding performance with a stochastic-process-based approach. But a long sampling time is required for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Ki-Ung Song

Mean-field games (MFGs) study the Nash equilibrium of systems with a continuum of interacting agents, which can be formulated as the fixed-point of optimal control problems. They provide a unified framework for a variety of applications,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-02 Jiajia Yu , Junghwan Lee , Yao Xie , Xiuyuan Cheng

Deep generative models have recently been employed for speech enhancement to generate perceptually valid clean speech on large-scale datasets. Several diffusion models have been proposed, and more recently, a tractable Schr\"odinger Bridge…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Seungu Han , Sungho Lee , Juheon Lee , Kyogu Lee

We study the mean field Schr\"odinger problem (MFSP), that is the problem of finding the most likely evolution of a cloud of interacting Brownian particles conditionally on the observation of their initial and final configuration. Its…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-08 Julio Backhoff-Veraguas , Giovani Conforti , Ivan Gentil , Christian Léonard

Mean Field Control Games (MFCGs) provide a powerful theoretical framework for analyzing systems of infinitely many interacting agents, blending elements from Mean Field Games (MFGs) and Mean Field Control (MFC). However, solving the coupled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Nianli Peng , Yilin Wang

The Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) is a powerful framework for solving generative modeling tasks such as unpaired domain translation. Most SB-related research focuses on continuous data space $\mathbb{R}^{D}$ and leaves open theoretical and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Grigoriy Ksenofontov , Alexander Korotin

Mean field games (MFGs) model the limit of large populations of strategically interacting agents, yet both forward and inverse problems remain challenging. For the forward problem, a difficulty is to design numerical methods with global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Hanwei Yan , Xianjin Yang , Jingguo Zhang

We propose a novel mean field games (MFGs) based GAN(generative adversarial network) framework. To be specific, we utilize the Hopf formula in density space to rewrite MFGs as a primal-dual problem so that we are able to train the model via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Shaojun Ma , Haomin Zhou , Hongyuan Zha

Mean Field Games (MFGs) can potentially scale multi-agent systems to extremely large populations of agents. Yet, most of the literature assumes a single initial distribution for the agents, which limits the practical applications of MFGs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sarah Perrin , Mathieu Laurière , Julien Pérolat , Romuald Élie , Matthieu Geist , Olivier Pietquin

Conditional generative models represent a significant advancement in the field of machine learning, allowing for the controlled synthesis of data by incorporating additional information into the generation process. In this work we introduce…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-27 Hanwen Huang

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

The recent mean field game (MFG) formalism facilitates otherwise intractable computation of approximate Nash equilibria in many-agent settings. In this paper, we consider discrete-time finite MFGs subject to finite-horizon objectives. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Kai Cui , Heinz Koeppl

Mean Field Games provide a powerful framework to analyze the dynamics of a large number of controlled agents in interaction. Here we consider such systems when the interactions between agents result in a negative coordination and analyze…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-28 Thibault Bonnemain , Thierry Gobron , Denis Ullmo

Mean-field games with common noise provide a powerful framework for modeling the collective behavior of large populations subject to shared randomness, such as systemic risk in finance or environmental shocks in economics. These problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Ruimeng Hu , Botao Jin , Mathieu Laurière , Jiacheng Zhang

Understanding complex systems by inferring trajectories from sparse sample snapshots is a fundamental challenge in a wide range of domains, e.g., single-cell biology, meteorology, and economics. Despite advancements in Bridge and Flow…

Generative diffusion models use time-forward and backward stochastic differential equations to connect the data and prior distributions. While conventional diffusion models (e.g., score-based models) only learn the backward process, more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Kentaro Kaba , Reo Shimizu , Masayuki Ohzeki , Yuki Sughiyama