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We study a family of optimal control problems in which one aims at minimizing a cost that mixes a quadratic control penalization and the variance of the system, both for finitely many agents and for the mean-field dynamics as their number…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-30 Benoît Bonnet , Francesco Rossi

The mean-field Langevin dynamics (MFLD) is a nonlinear generalization of the Langevin dynamics that incorporates a distribution-dependent drift, and it naturally arises from the optimization of two-layer neural networks via (noisy) gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Taiji Suzuki , Denny Wu , Atsushi Nitanda

We introduce a class of distributed nonlinear control systems, termed as the flow-tracker dynamics, which capture phenomena where the average state is controlled by the average control input, with no individual agent has direct access to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Behrouz Touri , Bahman Gharesifard

An important part of problems in statistical physics and computer science can be expressed as the computation of marginal probabilities over a Markov Random Field. The belief propagation algorithm, which is an exact procedure to compute…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-01-24 Victorin Martin , Jean-Marc Lasgouttes , Cyril Furtlehner

Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) has enabled to prove the equivalence between robustness and regularization in classification and regression, thus providing an analytical reason why regularization generalizes well in statistical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Esther Derman , Shie Mannor

Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization offers a framework for model fitting in machine learning under potential shifts in the data distribution. We study a regularized variant of this problem in which entropic smoothing produces a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Tam Le

We propose a novel learning framework using neural mean-field (NMF) dynamics for inference and estimation problems on heterogeneous diffusion networks. Our new framework leverages the Mori-Zwanzig formalism to obtain an exact evolution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Shushan He , Hongyuan Zha , Xiaojing Ye

We study a class of sampled stochastic optimization problems, where the underlying state process has diffusive dynamics of the mean-field type. We establish the existence of optimal relaxed controls when the sample set has finite size. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Lijun Bo , Agostino Capponi , Huafu Liao

We study infinite horizon discounted Mean Field Control (MFC) problems with common noise through the lens of Mean Field Markov Decision Processes (MFMDP). We allow the agents to use actions that are randomized not only at the individual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-14 René Carmona , Mathieu Laurière , Zongjun Tan

In this paper we consider a measure-theoretical formulation of the training of NeurODEs in the form of a mean-field optimal control with $L^2$-regularization of the control. We derive first order optimality conditions for the NeurODE…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-11 Benoît Bonnet , Cristina Cipriani , Massimo Fornasier , Hui Huang

In this paper we formulate the now classical problem of optimal liquidation (or optimal trading) inside a Mean Field Game (MFG). This is a noticeable change since usually mathematical frameworks focus on one large trader in front of a…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2017-09-22 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Charles-Albert Lehalle

We propose a fast algorithm to approximate the optimal transport distance. The main idea is to add a Fisher information regularization into the dynamical setting of the problem, originated by Benamou and Brenier. The regularized problem is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-29 Wuchen Li , Penghang Yin , Stanley Osher

We derive a Maximum Principle for optimal control problems with constraints given by the coupling of a system of ODEs and a PDE of Vlasov-type. Such problems arise naturally as ${\Gamma}$-limits of optimal control problems subject to ODE…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-10 Mattia Bongini , Massimo Fornasier , Francesco Rossi , Francesco Solombrino

This paper presents a novel model-free method to solve linear quadratic Gaussian mean field social control problems in the presence of multiplicative noise. The objective is to achieve a social optimum by solving two algebraic Riccati…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Zhenhui Xu , Bing-Chang Wang , Tielong Shen

We propose a mean-field (MF) approximation for the recurrence relation governing the dynamics of $m$ species of particles on a square lattice, and we simultaneously perform Monte Carlo (MC) simulations under identical initial conditions to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-23 Eduardo Velasco Stock , Roberto da Silva , Sebastian Gonçalves

In this paper, we first establish general bounds on the Fisher information distance to the class of normal distributions of Malliavin differentiable random variables. We then study the rate of Fisher information convergence in the central…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Nguyen Tien Dung , Nguyen Thu Hang

The policy iteration method is a classical algorithm for solving optimal control problems. In this paper, we introduce a policy iteration method for Mean Field Games systems, and we study the convergence of this procedure to a solution of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Simone Cacace , Fabio Camilli , Alessandro Goffi

Influence maximization in social networks has typically been studied in the context of contagion models and irreversible processes. In this paper, we consider an alternate model that treats individual opinions as spins in an Ising system at…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-02-21 Christopher Lynn , Daniel D. Lee

We propose a mean-field optimal control problem for the parameter identification of a given pattern. The cost functional is based on the Wasserstein distance between the probability measures of the modeled and the desired patterns. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-08 Martin Burger , Lisa Maria Kreusser , Claudia Totzeck

A mean-field selective optimal control problem of multipopulation dynamics via transient leadership is considered. The agents in the system are described by their spatial position and their probability of belonging to a certain population.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Giacomo Albi , Stefano Almi , Marco Morandotti , Francesco Solombrino